Coventry Homes - The Meadows at Imperial Oaks 40

Located in Houston, Texas

Address: 3009 Hickory Hvn Ln, Conroe, TX 77385, United States

Phone: +1 713-597-5881

Rating: 4.3

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Review 1 (2023-03-28 - Rating: 5)
I would recommend Coventry Homes to any potential homeowner! Heather Warren, our sales counselor at Coventry Homes, was an absolute delight!She guided my spouse and I throughout the entire process, showing us the price ranges, home options, even suggesting the right real-estate agent! This entire homebuilding process was a success greatly due to Heather’s guidance.

Review 2 (2023-01-02 - Rating: 5)
TL;DRIn the world of fluctuating interest rates and market values, building a home in 2023 will be an adventure, sometimes a scary one. You want to be very careful who you decide to build with. With Coventry I think youre in good hands.Our storyWe put down earnest money on a home in March of 2022 and as interest rates rose, we felt certain we werent going to get the home we were having built... Our sales counselor Heather Warren (who is over the 40 series homes) worked very hard to get us into a Coventry home that would work for us in these changing times. Although I feel she could have helped us get the home we were building, we didnt end up buying the one we were building, but managed to get into another Coventry 40 series home. A home we actually like a lot more... I am a pretty difficult customer and at times I lost my cool, but Heather never did. She stayed professional and she just worked harder to do everything she could to find a path to home ownership for us and to make us happy.As for the home itself. She told us up front it wont be perfect, but we can fix the problems... Everything we asked for got taken care of prior to closing.Lending options-As all builders do, Coventry has a short list of partner lenders they work with. I did encounter a problem with the original partner lender that we were going to use. When this happened I began looking at other lenders and noticed enough difference in rates to go elsewhere. Coventry helped us find another lender in their network that was able to match the rate offered by the other/outside lender and that enabled us to keep the builders incentives tied to using one of their lenders. Reoccurring theme is Coventry works with you.Set expectations-Coventry classifies itself as semi-custom built homes. They do give a lot more flexibility in options that we say with other builders like Pulte and Lennar, but Coventry sits in the same market segment as Pulte, Lennar, DR Horton, etc.. These are all big builders who focus on Single-family starter and step-up homes. Ask anyone in construction, they all cut a few corners today vs what was being built 30-40 years ago. Im talking about quality of materials in some cases, and build techniques in some cases. Its all about cranking out houses quickly and maximizing margins. Coventry does offer higher quality materials than most and although they have 40,50,60 series in this neighborhood, you get the same quality of materials regardless which series you build through. Also, their sales contracts all look about the same. You have to agree to arbitration, you have to agree to a buy-buck clause if their cost to repair on warranty work exceeds 20% of the market value, etc...Theres a lot not to like about the sales contract terms, but you cant blame Coventry. You have to look at the industry and these appalling standards that have come about. Youre not going to escape this unless you want to pay twice as much and have a custom home built.Coventry is owned by Dream Finders Homes out of Florida. If you search on-line, youll find a lot of unhappy Dream Finders Homes customers. Theres on-line forums devoted to problems with the parent builder. Ive read through a lot of what people are experiencing and theres a lot of ignorance in these groups (e.g. hairline cracks normal to foundation settling being classified as major foundation problems). I had a much, much better experience with Coventry than a lot of he folks working direct with Dream Finders Homes had. I would not judge Coventry in any way based on Dream Finder Homes reviews.