Cavalier Homes

I am sitting here wringing out my shamwows that are catching the rain leaking in as I write. Something must be done about this company! Our home was built in 2004 and the roof leaks like a sieve!

I was looking to buy a mobile home and I found a floor plan that I like very much. I was on web sites all day and I found your website. All the opinions on cavalier homes are BAD leaking roofs, cheat drains, wore walls, leaking pipes. Now I'm not sure about buying a cavalier home. Please help me make up my mind.

Buyer beware!!! I just replaced a portion of the roof by the front door that had rotted away. Some idiot in the factory thought it would be ok to leave staples exposed to the elements on top of the shingles. I don't think it would take a high school graduate to figure out that if you put a staple thru a roof shingle you are creating a water leak. I can't believe that after only seven years my roof is bad. Every where I look there are staples sticking up out of the shingles. I don't even want to think about the cost of a new roof so soon after buying this place. When I contacted this company about the issue I was told "that's why you have homeowners insurance". Unbelievable. What kind of customer service is that? I will never ever give this company a good review, and I would hope that anyone out there would run away and find something better to spend money on.

I have read all the other reviews and everyone has the same thing wrong as I do.

I bought my home in 2004 and have had nothing but PROBLEMS since I moved in. When the house was delivered there were so many cracks in the walls. The "repair man"� (the people that were supposed to fix anything wrong with the house) came in put some spackle up on the uneven, cracking drywall the board tape over it and said it was good. I have had a crack in the drywall by the front corner of my window that has continued to get larger. The drywall above and around my front window is so cracked and ruined that I cannot even hang up a curtain because there is nothing to but the screws into. I just had the wall taken down today and have found that there is not much keeping the inside from the out. All there is in the wall is rolled insulation, a VERY small Styrofoam layer and then the siding.

After being in the house for two years the front wall was leaking. We had had some significant rain for a few days, woke up and found a puddle on top of the carpet. The drywall was wet up almost two feet. I called the factory and demanded that they fix it. They send out a rep, he ran some water over the front windows said he didn't see any leaks and that it was just a fluke thing. We calked all the windows and have dealt with it since.

The hole for the kitchen sink in the counter top was cut too big so the repair man fixed it with super glue and calk. So now my sink looks like it is always dirty and still has a bit of a wiggle to it.

My plumbing has been run so poorly that whenever I flush the toilet in the master bath you can hear it throughout the whole house. When my washer drains the water will bubble up in the tub in the master bath. All of the pipes always have standing water in them that sits just below the top of the drain. I constantly have to clean out my sinks and tubs because insects are laying eggs in it and they are hatching.

Our house had a master suite, notice how I said HAD. We had to close in the bonus area in the suit because there is no air vent in the space and the whole master suite was either WAY to hot or WAY to cold. We have since found out that there is NO insulation in the exterior wall on any of the end rooms.

We also cannot keep our master bath or closet warm at all. The vents will blow air through them but it is not hot. Doesn't matter what time of year it is cold air. Colder in the winter than the summer but always cold.

The outlet on the island in my kitchen was never hooked up so it does not work. We cannot use the vacuum in any room without all of the lights in the house going dim.

If anyone would ask me to recommend Cavalier Homes I would tell them to run the other way. I spent almost $70,000 on my house and have no way to get out of it. I would love nothing more than to let it be someone else problem. Every day I wake up I hope something else hasn't gone wrong. Their customer service is a JOKE. The will not repair anything and always say nothing is wrong.

I would love to open a class action suit with others that are in the same boat as I am. I know there are many others out there that are having the same problems that I am.

I purchased my Cavalier Mobile Home 4 years ago. I am now looking at having to replace the sub-flooring in my kitchen. And after reviewing Cavalier's warranty I learned that they only supply a one year warranty on their mobile homes. Perhaps this is due to the shoddy materials and workmanship!

We bought a Cavalier Monterey Model 09-A6600L manufactured home at the end of July 2009. We have tried and are still trying to get defects in our house fixed. For almost 3 wks we couldn't shut our back door,it was too far out of alignment. We had to prop stuff against it to keep the wind from blowing it open. The house calls for 2 baths. The guest bath is so small a standard shower door is too large to fit. The bath tub is only 19" wide and 49" long. I can put my fingers behind the molding around the bathtub. Molding is missing all over the house. The cabinet doors have screw holes all over them and slide about. The rails are split where the screws were put in crooked and will not shut all the way, our dish washer would not work. It took 3 weeks to get someone out, and he found out it wasn't even wired up. We had blue stuff to come out of the water in the bath tub and stain it when we turned on the water for the first time. We have linoleum floors and it is torn in one big place in the kitchen and several places in the utility room. They want to just patch it, with no compensation to us for the damage. Our walls are stained with something on it; on every sheet. You can very plainly see every joint of sheetrock because of the puckers and voids in the joints where the sheetrock is busted up or gone. The doorknob in the bathroom was completely missing. We got one in about 3 wks, but the wrong color. One bedroom light would not burn, one plug in will not work, my shingles has been turned up and puckered, since the house was put in place, allowing rain to blow in under them, and cavalier will not fix them. We had a nail drove in our carpet in front of our bedroom door and we asked one of the "special" workers about it, and he said it was where they used it to hold the carpet in place when they pulled it, putting it down, and forgot to pull that nail out, and he would pull it out, he did, and when he left, I walked over to the area, and it felt rought. I was barefooted, and rubbed my foot over it and a tuff of carpet came up. It left a hole in the carpet. That is what the nail was for, was to hold a tuff of carpet in the hole, but the nail was real shiny and very noticeable. I even have a used "I beam" under the right side of my house. I questioned the co. about it, and their reply was: "It dosn't hurt the integrity of the house." I bought this house new. They took my tongues and my axles. It plainly states that the price I paid for the house includes all the outside accessories, which I consider the axles and tongues as a accessity to a mobile home. I finally got the tongues back, or two tongues, one tongue had the jack cut out of it, so you can't use it to raise the house up or down and I doubt it would be safe to pull half of the house to move it. The co. will make no comment as to who got the axles or where they are. My air conditioner cannot get air to two bedrooms,utitly room, or bathroom.
Our kitchen cabinets are a mess, holes drilled where they shouldn't be, doors not screwed in tight and sliding back and forth. screws tighten too much, they sunk into the wood causing splintering. They're scratched up on the outside like they're used. Our microwave table won't turn, no paperwork on it, the model no: don't match, a part is missing out of it to make it turn. We are pretty sure it is used. None of the doors in my house; entrance or exit doors, inside doors, are adjusted right. This is just some of my problems. If anyone knows of any Gov. agency that will intervine please contact. I've had a belly ful of cavalier and their excuses. "Hud" agency is as useless as mammory glands on a bore hog. I say to any one "DO NOT BUY A CAVALIER MANUFACTURED MOBILE HOME" They are made from seconds and used products.
Cecil Turner
Georgia

My home was build at Cavalier Homes of Alabama in Addison, AL. We have had our home for a little over 3 years we have a leaking roof, the outside walls are warped with a wave pattern, the floor boards are loose and we can not uses some of our outlets because when you plug any up the light flicker..We even went so far as to get an outside repair person to take a look at he problems and he informed us that these problems were the result of the way the home was built. I have contacted cavalier and requested that they send someone out to at least look at the house so that they can see what is going. The only thing I get from them is that the house only house a one year warranty and which means that they do not stand be-HIND THERE PRODUCTS. When a company WILL NOT STAND BEHIND there work then they can not be trusted. I am one of those people that from the beginning I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt because all I wanted was my house to be repaired.I GIVE THEM O- STARS BECAUSE THEY DO CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS. All I can say is buyers beware of companies like this if they did it to me then it could happen to you..

Our Cavalier home was purchased in 2004 and we have developed leaks in the roof. We're getting a roofing inspector out to see what needs to be done. A roof should last more than 5 years.

we bought our home feb 2009 and have not been satisified with this companys performance. we are still waiting for repairs to be done. this company will tell you anything for you to purchase thier homes. very bad "CUSTOMER SUPPORT, AND STANDING BY THEIR PRODUCT"

We have been in our home almost 2 years and have had the wall sockets fixed,electric in wall re-wired,ceiling in bedroom do to leak caused by several nails holes that were not fixed.Trying to get an answer from cav.homes is a joke. They do not want to fix anything and are slow in calling back if at all. I have reported to the B.B.B and still waiting for response from them. We are thinking fo getting other cav homeowners who feel they have been takin and starting class action law suit.

I have owned my home since 2005 and was happy with it until the warranty ran out. I started noticing water running from up under the wall toward the front door not to long ago. My wife contacted them and it is no longer covered under any kind of warranty. So I am going to have to tear the walls out in two rooms to find the leak/s before my floor rots out. The water is coming from inside somewhere,and I'm going to find the problem and go from there on my actions with Cavalier Homes.

We purchased the Cavalier home in 2007 and in 2009 found out the roof was leaking and had been leaking since new, but we didn't know until it soaked the board under the shingles and started leaking into the ceiling inside. Mold has set in and a local roof inspector showed me were the factory placed broken and cut triangle shingles in 7 layers straight in a row. The Shingles did not underlap the shingles on top and leaked thru. Then he showed me were they didn't us any tar paper under the singles. I contacted Randy in the GA plant and he tells me they it isn't there problem. The repairs have been estimated at $12-15 thousand to repair and remove mold. I wouldn't buy another home from Cavalier for my dog to live in.

Ilike my home, Power House I think. It has a popping in the roof as temp changes that concerns me. I may see if their service man will look at it.

I just moved into a 4 bedroom modular home on frame, and I am very disappointed with US Mobile Home Services. My landscaping is just terrible, parking pad is awful. Setup from the start to the ending was terrible. They destroy my property. I don't have my keys to my home yet. Cannot use back door cause don't have the keys. Look like hurricane Fay came through. I will never purchase a home from US Mobile Home again nor recommend them to no one. Bad services. I love the home but the painting is awful.

Owned a 2003 model Brigadier Home built by Cavalier, and I was extremely disappointed with the quality of construction. I made some warranty claims which were partially satisfied, but had constant water leaks from the cheap plumbing that was intstalled. The walls started to bow after about 2 years, and the bedroom wall started to separate after 2 1/2 years. And that was the good features of the home! There are far better modular providers out there, and remember that you get what you pay for! Don't waste your money on anything built by Cavalier.

We just moved into a beautiful ranch modular home by Cavalier built at the Addison plant. Everything is sheetrock with beautiful crown molding. This home appears to be built better than many of the site built homes we looked at prior to deciding on a modular. Everyone who handled our home from financing to move in was wonderful to deal with. Thank you US Homes, Marianna, Florida and Cavalier!!