Commodore Homes of Indiana

We love our Commodore home. We were newlyweds when we purchased it and now we've been in it for almost 9 years and have 3 small children. My husband and I love to cook and the large kitchen is wonderful. We still love the house, even though it is overall, very small. I often say, "How many newly married couples have the opportunity to live in a brand new home?

Our first year, we had a Commordore employee come and fix all of our complaints from the house settling before our one year warranty ran out. No problems from them for doing the work. We've finished our basement which doubled the size of the house. We've added a porch and back deck and changed out the front door. We're about to replace the carpet with hard wood. We love our home and are so thankful we went with Commodore!

very happy with the design of the home, but i feel that the trim could look a lot better, the cabinet doors and drawers are not finished right, and the appliances have caused a lot of problems. refigerator, furnace. They are trying to work with us, but if we knew the problems we would have we would never have bought a commodore home from Goshen, In.

We love our Commodore Grandville Ranch. With almost 2300 sqft. and 6" walls, flat ceilings, huge bedrooms and kitchen, we couldn't be happier. Our dealer is great to work with and this home shows no sign of cheap construction.

Although the design process and ability to customize was great, the service and craftsmanship was so-so at best. We were living at a friend's house since our old house was in disrepair and unfit for dwellers and were told that it should be completed in 4-8 weeks. Then Hurricane Katrinia hit and we were told that Commodore Homes had received the FEMA contract and our house was put on hold with delivery for early January.

When the house arrived in Northern Wisconsin in January it didn't pass inspection due to the wiring and plumbing not being up to code. As the months warmed up multiple cracks and nail holes appeared in the drywall. The wrong appliances were installed. The outside doors were incorrectly installed and were wrong. The roof needed to be replaced 1 year after the house was delivered. The shutters never arrived.

Worst of all, the house was to placed on a basement. The basement was all ready to go for the originally delivery day in September but we didn't receive the house until January. The basement ended up being covered until the house arrived. The house needed to stay warm so the builders put an oil heater in the basement. Needless to say the house was covered in black soot that we haven't been able to remove. With the house not being up to code, we weren't allowed to move until JUNE!

We are still noticing problems from time to time but have given up. Our 1200 sq foot house ended up costing us almost $200,000 due to all the fixes we had to pay for out of pocket. Our original price quote was around $65,000.

First of all we like the home and the way that the floorplan is plus the xtras that we put into it.There has been problems mainly with who we purchased the home from. If i knew that there was going to be this much problems we would not have purchased this home.Commodore Homes Indiana was doing everything to try and take care of the problems that we have had.The quality of the workmanship could have been o whole lot better. To me it seems that the workers dont take pride in there workmenship skills. Thats what is wrong with workers today NO PRIDE. Getting back to the house even today im still alittle mad at how i keep running into bad workmenship and this has been 2 yrs plus.

We've had nothing but trouble with our home. The rafters can been since through our ceiling. The floor vibrates through out the house when someone walks. Our heating ducts under the house had openings. Leaving us with 2 huge electric bills before WE got it. The the workers of Bruce Swihart are unwilling to do work in a timely fashion and lack the knowledge and will power of doing a good job. It took the drywall guy 3 weeks to finish our house, when we were told it would only take 4 days. This costs us another month of interest on our construction loan, which was $737. Bruce made sure he got his money but didn't make sure we got in our home in a timely fashion. We've had to have our kitchen and utility floor replace due to debris underneath it. We've had two water leaks. The one in the bathroom had to have a 6 x15" drywall replaced. It was going on 3 weeks without our shower, before we decided finished it. These are just a few things that I will caution anyone about before they want to buy one of your homes. I'm seriously thinking about contacting a lawyer for the money lost. And reporting all of this to the BBB!