Bought a new build home from Lennar in central Texas. Appraisal came in about $8k higher than our purchase price. VA loan is conditionally approved with some minor documentation things taken care of , waiting on underwriting, supposed to close on May 10.
I had been in the house to do some measuring and realized the floor in utility room was kind of bouncy or spongy and didn't seem like it was really attached to the slab floor underneath and brought it up. Developer Sales agent and he said he would "have their flooring guy take a look."
I had an independent inspector out and take a look. She mentioned the floor was a problem in multiple places around the house. Where she said, in her experience it feels like, the put the adhesive down, and it got dry before they put the floor down, so when you walk on it, it presses down into the adhesive, but when you step off it pops up and pulls away from the adhesive and makes a crackling sound as it unsticks.
This is going to drive me bonkers knowing the floor isn't right, and I have a feeling its a big job to pull up the floors and redo the floors, and I'm going to bet they aren't going to want to do anything about it to fix it. We're going for our blue tape walk through today. I'm not sure what my options are going to be to force the issue of them fixing it. I only had to put $2,500 deposit down at this point. I'd prefer to close, but I don't know how expensive it would be for me to have the floor redone. It's a 1900 sqft house and only the 3 bedrooms are carpet, the rest is this vinal wood like flooring so it's like they would have to redo most of the house to make it right. I've never bought a new build house, I'm not sure what my options are at this point.
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