Commodore Homes of Pennsylvania

we moved into our shack jan. 9th 2008. if i could i would let the bank forclose on this peice of trash . we paid 182,500 for this joke of a house and i can,t beleive we were so DUMB.theres no way we could sell this house and get any part of our money back. my husband is 83 and i am 73 and you can see how we were taken advatage of. never deal with commodore homes???????????

I was so excited to buy my home. It's supposed to be my retirement home but I don't think it's going to last that long. Right now it's falling apart around us. The ceiling leaked over the stove which ruined the oven. Both bathrooms have totally fallen apart. Right now we don't even have a working toilet. The living room carpet is coming apart where they put the house together. Makes me wonder if one day I'll go home and the house will have split apart. I've never paid $60,000 for a big pile of garbage before and I really wished I hadn't this time. It's the biggest mistake I've ever made and I'm 60 years old so I've made a few. None as bad as buying this house. The house isn't even five years old and it's literally falling apart. I'm not a rich women and I don't have the money to fix everything that is wrong. I wish someone would just burn it to the ground. It's not fit for human living. From all the other complaints, I can tell I probably won't get any kind of satisfaction. I don't have a choice. I have no where else to live. It's pretty bad when you pay $60,000 for a house and you don't even have a functioning bathroom. I wish I had seen all of these reports before I bought the home. What an idiot I am!

i have had my home only 4 years. it is so cold that we had to install a pellet stove to vent out the fire place. we just installed new windows one week ago. this is terrible you pay this much for a brand new home that you have to put more into it to be comfortable.i love the lay out thats why we ordered it. when the people came out to do repairs some of them where useless, they wouldn't do what they were suppose to do and yea i signed there work order because i was tired of dealing with the ones that didn't want to fix things. oh yea they were suppose to take out all the windows and rechaulk them because we felt air. they only did ONE and when the old ones came out NONE OF THE WINDOWS WERE CHAULKED.

This is what happens when a person goes with the cheapest company to build their home! If a customer did a little checking (beyond the bottom line) they would find out that they are buying junk.

I moved to NY in early 1991, and to get adequate housing I looked at manufactured housing. A quiet park was available and I had several dealers to choose from in my area. I purchased a lot model in fall of 1991. After weighing the costs and amenities, the Commodore was a lot more, but looked somewhat better on the lot. It took several months to get delivery to our lot. It went unskirted for almost a year. As a "model" we never got the carpets cleaned or any other cosmetic services performed. Within 3 months of delivery, my home started to literally crack in half. I called many times to the dealer and was always put on the back burner. I needed a shopping list of repairs, and could never get anyone to even look at my problems. I had contacted the BBB dozens of times. I also tried to get my bank to do something, but after everyone got there money, they disappeared.

Now after 16 years it should be condemned. Shingled roof leaks. Skylights leak. Whirlpool tub hasn't worked for 14 years. Furnace quit after 6 months. They had installed a used gun. Windows are horrible, and nothing is remotely square or plumb after numerous levelings. I am looking to vacate soon, as repairs are more than my original cost to purchase. Would I recommend Commodore? Absolutley not!

i just purchased a home from commodore homes thru a dealer named gas light company in newcastle pa. the home was put together pretty bad. very poor craftsmanship.cabinets were all scratched or nicked up pretty bad, sliding door was racked pretty bad,among other issues. they came to fix the problems. just seems they slap these places together with no regards to how its done or looks. i asked the dealer if he was going to unwrap the appliances to check for dents or scratches and he said he doesnt like to do it, and told me to do it myself. all he's interested in is getting his money and not doing a good job.

We have lived in a Commodore home 22 years. We purchased it from a dealer in Richfield Springs, NY. It took them forever to get it in and then they had it sitting on their lot for several more months. Finally after many lawyer trip, calls, etc. it was delivered and set up for us. It wasn't put together correctly. There is a ridge down the middle where the two sections come together. We have completely redone our kitchen and both bathrooms and are now in the process of redoing the living room. As of late we seem to have a leak in the drainage system which seems to come from the washing machine as we have checked all showers, toilets, dishwasher, and sinks in both baths and kitchen. When we do a laundry we have water flooding all over our garage. We are on a slab and it is impossible to find where it is leaking as everything is up under the house and covered with plastic and insulation. We have just requested a drainage plan so we can hopefully find where the leak is. My husband has been under the house several times checking things out but without much crawl space and not seeing any leaks we are at a loss as to what to do next. We feel when anyone buys a home such as this a floor plan of both electricity and drainage should be supplied at the time of purchase. A few years ago we had an electrical problem which never could be solved so my husband had to completely rewire one whole side of the home. Hopefully, the workmenship on these homes has been improved since we bought ours. Sincerely, Ruth Hallenbeck

i also purchased a modular home from commodore homes. their pinecrest model. i think there is very poor craftsmanship coming out of the building facility. most all cabinets are scratched,items under the laminant flooring, sliding glass door not plum and level, trim all scratched up,center island in the kitchen put together very bad and veneer peeling from bottom of it. just a few examples. i understand that someone will be out to fix problems. but when a new home buyer walks through the home and sees so much poor quality work coming right out of the factory it makes you wonder the quality of work put into the rest of the home that you cant see. makes you wonder if you've made the right choice on builders. you would think that they would have an inspector check the place for defects before it was sent out. just shows me that they have poor quality builders that don't care about what they're putting together. you know the first impression is the most important. and the one i got was that they dont care about their craftsmanship at all. they were sent a list of the things that were wrong and a week later they called and came out to the home. most things could be fixed that day but other things need replaced. this could take weeks. very inconveniant to a person.

Ordered my home sight unseen from Florida. Beat the moving truck here by 2 days. My home was completely set up and operating when I got here. The only complaint I have is the ceiling fans they install are the noisiest, worst i have ever heard. Other than that I have not had any problems at all. My home is a 28 x 76 doublewide.

As of this moment I do not have anything nice to say about Commodore Homes. Our home was delivered July 28th, 2008 and set on our foundation July 30th. Due to inferior workmanship inside our house which requires much repair work we are unable to move in. Problems were reported to Commodore on Tuesday, August 5th, and someone is only coming Monday, August 18th, to look at the problems and possibly begin fixing them. This is totally unacceptable! We have had to reschedule painters, tile and hardwood installers, vacation time taken to move in and continue to pay rent to live elsewhere. From day one, we have done everything asked of us by Chesapeake Homes of Grantville and also of Commodore Homes and this is how we get treated in return. If this home would have been manufactured correctly, without sloppy mistakes that should have been seen and repaired before it left the facility, I would be moving in to my new home instead of writing this complaint.