Dale Sauer Homes

Dale poured our foundation in April 2013 and we moved into our beautiful, new 5,200+ square foot home in November of that year. Amazing, considering other builders quoted us anywhere from one to two years for the type of custom home we were going to build! Overall it was a very pleasurable experience. No project this size is without issues or questions that arise, but Dale not only raised some of those questions, he helped come up with solutions, and went the extra mile in solving them. Throughout the process, we were impressed with the way he listened to what we wanted, was innovative in his execution, managed and scheduled his sub contractors with Swiss watch precision, and always looked for things he could add to the plan to give us more value. Even after months of living in the house, he has been extremely responsive in coordinating subs to come back (at no charge to us) to correct little things we have found, whether it was light bulbs that needed replacing, an appliance that was making a noise, a fan that needed balancing, etc. We are now part of that crowd that attends his open houses to tell potential clients, "If we ever build again - Dale will do it, no question!"

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See above - FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE

I also was so happy to hear when Mr. Sauer was voted Most prestigious Builder of the Year by his Peers in 2009. He well deserves these awards.I know that he has a legion of satisfied customers and return customers! Several of them he is building a home for a second and even third time. Each of his Clients are included in and invited to his New Home Open Houses. It affords his past customers an idea of the latest and greatest newest products and designs being offered in today's home building markets. Hence, he often helps past satisfied customers start over on their next Dream Home project. Dale participates in the Parade of Homes every year and has sold several of his Spec homes before the Parade is officially open, or before the Parade is over. Which is every Home Builder's goal during the Parade. When my husband and I decide to build again in the Future, you can be sure Dale Sauer Homes, will be the first Builder we call to start the planning and execution of our new home. A very Satisfied Customer Kathy Sowell

Dale went above and beyond from the first time I spoke with him. Was willing to walk the lot, introduce me to an architect, talk plans and specs - all before I ever signed a contract or any money changed hands. The home was completed on time and on budget. Dale was available and on the job site every single day. Couldn't have ask for a better experience.

After a DEVESTATING home fire my wife and I decided that it was time to build our dream home. We found a lot that SAUER owned and approched him to buy it. He was extremely friendly and said he would give us a $20k discount if we choose him to build our home. We had no design so he hooked us up with a local architect. After a meeting of 3 hours describing our desires in the home we expected to see a basic prelim design in a week, two and a half weeks later we got the crappiest basic design from him i have ever seen. I then set out to find a "real" designer. This did not set well with Dale, but it is my home so I pressed on. After getting a design from a professional we started a bit backwards. I wanted to get a real good bid quote on the total cost of the home with real selections instead of "allowances" that would never cover the real cost of our selections. This took at least two months to do. Durring this process I realize the area I will be building in requires zero permits and has zero code compliance from the city. In order to protect myself I told SAUER that I will be utilizing our architect through out the process for code compliance and design integrity scrutiny. At this time he spoke nothing of having any issue with this to me. Fast forward to the 11th hour and the bid comes in ok, we are ready to sign the contract when he tell my architect he will not allow him to be a part of the building process! I called SAUER up and told him that since I will be funding a $1 million dollar home by myself I need a MINIMUM level of protection due to the nature of the area we are building in (code/permits issues). I suggested that we all get together and discuss the level of involvement of my architect at which time he states "NO- I will not meet with you and I will never work with (architect) again, he has burned his bridge with me!" I replied that if this is his level of professionalism and the way he resolves disputes especially in the "honeymoon" phase of building that I will not use him, to which he replies "I am not making enough money on this job, I need to ask my wife if she thinks we should do this" I never heard back from him the next two weeks after many attempts to call/text/email him and his wife Debbie. What I wanted back from him was the plans to my home which cost me $15,000.00 to have drawn back! Ultimately I had to resort to calling an attny. and threaten him that if he attempted to used my plans I will sue him... He never returned them to me! After the fact we did some serious research on this character. Turns out he is a HOTHEAD, and if you disagree at all with him you have a problem! Also it turns out Mr. SAUER is in the regular habit of not paying his subcontrators the agreed amount or in the case of my new decorator (she did a parade home with him) not paying at all!!! She had to file a lien on him while at the same time attending the parade home under the same roof as he...AKWARD! It also came to light when i was looking for another piece of land and dealing with the land developers that is name is not in good standing with them as well. The bottom line is that Dale SAUER builds 400k-500k homes. a 1million plus home is out of his level of comfort and if you are looking for a "real" custom builder you need to look further than Dale Sauer. If you are happy with a builder that will do it his way or the high-way Dale is you guy, if your the type of person that wants a custom home and you have your own ideas..move on! This Debacle ended up costing me 4 months lost time on our build process and since we only had one year of insurance costs covered for our rental it will end up costing me over $50k for this lost time. My advice is choose very carefully, have an attny look at the contract these builder expect you to sign and understand TEXAS is the wild west of home building with ZERO oversite by ANY govermental agency and little recourse when you are shafted by one!!! feel free to contact me at moldowan at aol dot com if you need more specific info on this clown who calls himself a custom builder By the way in his rebuttle Dale has listed that he won 8 out of 12 awards for parade homes... BUT every builder comes home with at last one or multiple awards at EVERY parade event.. just another example of the deceit you can expect from them. *update* 1-27-14 He has built a home in cordillera ranch, although a simpler home with not too much fancy finish out he did complete it in Half the time of the other builders out here. which is impressive.