Comments on: If you just bought a brand new home in Brampton, read this!

By: mikeservice

mikeservice — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:35:21 +0000

Gold Park Homes after sales service is my real nightmare. Buyer please do your homework. The customer service is difficult to deal with, and does not have any tolerance to the buyers.

By: erika

erika — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:12:58 +0000

Anyone wanting to buy a home should not take the opinions of others on a website. I’m sorry but there negative reviews of all the home builders. People don’t usually post positive ones. My husband and I bought a Conservatory Group Home. So far, we have not been delayed and are closing on March 19th. Everyone we have dealt with has been ok and the Decor Centre was amazing. They were very helpful and did not try to shove anything down our throats. Anyone who buys a new home knows that upgrades cost an arm and a leg. This is not just common to this builder. My parents just downgraded to a condo with Greenpark and the decor centre was beyond horrible. At least the conservatory is making this part of the purchasing an enjoyable one with their award winning decor centre. Their standard options of so plentiful that in many cases, you don’t even need to upgrade. I also pray that our house will be structurally fine and as far as the odds and ends that may and will come up..my husband and I will make sure that anything covered by Tarion WILL get fixed. In the end, people should keep negative comments in perspective and do what is best for them.

As for the financing..yes, you are paying but you are also saving a crap load of money on interest. Also, the price of our conservatory group home has gone up over 25 thousand in 4 months.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:39:11 +0000

has anyone bought with the conservatory group with their zero % INTEREST FREE DEAL FOR 3 YEARS

By: Audley

Audley — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:32:14 +0000

Base on my experience they will delay your closing date as much as they get the opertunity finding excuses while they don’t work on the house until last minute, them they rush when the closing date is approaching. You get charge for increase development cost even though they delay you, their finish is not neat and you spend the next two years fighting to get things done properly. That’s only if you can identify the problems with the house or they get away scotch free.

By: Anna Bianchi

Anna Bianchi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:54:24 +0000

Hi …my husband and I went to look at the model homes in vaughan by Conservatory Group and I was going to purchase one of their homes but now after reading the posts about them Im not sure anymore. I am the main provider in my family as due to a disability my husband is not able to work so I really can’t afford to be scammed. Is there anyone who didn’t have a bad experience? If I do buy how can I protect myself?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:25:02 +0000

you all mention poor quality…I think our home built by Queensgate is the worst. The service from them is horrible but don’t expect any help from Tarion as they have such low standards and will more often than not side with the builder. If you go to Tarions website every single builder loves them. I wonder why?
Tarion is a simple Tax grab! My poor neighbors do not have as much experience as I do with construction so they were screwed alot…Queensgate forgot to put in walls/doors etc…how bad is that.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:29:21 +0000

We too bought a home from The Conservatory Group and we certainly echo the sentiments above. What a nightmare!! I advise any future buyers to run from these guys. We have bought new homes before and are somewhat familiar with the process. These guys have very poor workmanship and lousy customer service. The decor centre is a ripoff and the owners youngest son who runs the decor centre and this guy is nothing but a scam artist suffering from small man syndrome with no touch of reality. People, make sure your lawyer caps the closing costs. We were dinged with a $2100 dollar Hydro hook up fees. Our lawyer said that most builders charge about $600 (if not already included in original price). We were told the next level of upgrade to our kitchen cabinets will be $9300(incidentlally, we can get a new maple kitchen for under that from Lowes). So we opted for standard kitchen cabinets. Our $440K house came with 70% vinyl cabinets not wood. We didn’t take their zero down payment option. Thank god because they will charge you $9000 dollars in financing costs at closing. The sales centre knows this, but will play dumb when you ask. These guys are cousins of Tribute homes. I can tell the service is night and day compared to Tribute. BUYERS ARE STRONGLY CAUTIONED WHEN DEALING WITH THESE SCAM ARTISTS. SADLY, THEY HAVE TARION END COVERED. DON’T BOTHER.

As for suggestions of a class action suit….I am not sure what our rights are and these guys are loaded with legal help. All you have to do is organize a community event and I am certain you’ll get the signatures neccessary for a petition for starters. Every homeowner I’ve spoken are really uphappy with The Conservatory Group.

By: Audley

Audley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:58:39 +0000

Hi Susie, My purchase is in Brampton. Base on all the people that I know bought houses from them this is a standard practice for them. I think Tarion also works in their favour. I think a group of home buyers who bought from themand face all these issues need to do something like a class action law suit against them.

By: Audley

Audley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:52:28 +0000

Call Fieldgate directly or call the city and they should be able to help you. Six years is a long time. I hope they pay you interest.

By: lang

lang — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:33:16 +0000

What ways have you tried contacting them so far?

Lang

By: V. I.

V. I. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:37:27 +0000

Hi, can anybody tell me where can i get help to retrieve my grading deposit from Fieldgate homes? It’s been 6 years now since they held my deposit.
Thanks

By: Suzie

Suzie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:15:28 +0000

Hello Audley, I echo your sentiments which you have posted on here….I am interested in learning if you purchased in the Brampton area or if this is the quality of work they have in all their subdivisions….I hope that we can do something about this, it is just not acceptable – their work ethic is absolutely terrible and I am so disappointed with the finished product…..

By: Audley

Audley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:38:19 +0000

Well The Conservatory group has got to be the most terrible home builber in all of North America.

We bought a house and it got delayed for 11 months and still the finish product looks terrible. I think they intentionally do a poor rush job because they know that people have to work and rarely get time off from work or cannot afford to take time off for them to come in and fix the problems.Their trades don’t want to work weekends,that’s another sign of rip off. By the time you know it one year past and they get away with cheating poor people.

This builder charged us for increase development cost even though they delayed us,we paid for trees and driveway separately. By the time they finished adding the little extra charges you pay a fortune for closing.Please read the fine prints.

Some of the issues we have apart from poor fish are noisey hardwood floor,boot marks from varnish on the floor,crooked walls and bulk heads,vanity light installed in the ceiling,wash room lights intalled outside wash rooms,The house was painted in dust so the door jams and base boards are rough, also the stain and varnish on the stairs.

These are only what we saw with our eyes. Please people do your reseach before you buy house from them.They might be cheaper than other builders build in the long run it will cost you for their mistakes. They are a group of companies so you will buy from them before you find out it’s them. Do your reseach. PLEASE

By: Camille N

Camille N — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:12:44 +0000

Darcel Homes are just as horrible at building homes as some of the other builders or worse. I not recommend them to anyone, beware everyone!!!! Warn people away from this builder, they only do the minimum and nothing more.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:30:17 +0000

Beware of Gold Park homes and the horrific customer service

By: Suzie

Suzie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:16:01 +0000

We purchased a home from the Conservatory Group in Spring Valley and all I can say is that is that they have very very poor workmanship – They have chosen the cheapest labour in all of their trades to do the work on their homes.

Sadly even our updgraded hardwood floors are covered with Paint Splatter and we have been told that it is our responsibility to clean it up?

Mr. Dhillon, I see you have posted here – what rights do new home owners truly have when they are battling New Home Builders – I would not buy new again…after this horrid experience with Conservatory Group…please beware future home owners.

The layout of the home is gorgeous – workmanship is unfortunatly not something that Conservatory Group prides themselves on….

By: E Qureshi

E Qureshi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:02:49 +0000

hi , can you tell me which areas of brampton are considered a new sub division? thanks

By: Vicky Dhillon

Vicky Dhillon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:49:33 +0000

I recommend that all new home builders buy the new edition of the Ontario Building Code so they can double check the builders work. I have been recieving many call from new homeowners about bad building practices by the builders. We have recieved about 30-40 calls especially from Senator Homes.

By: lang

lang — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:34:44 +0000

Hi Jasantha

For fencing inquiries you can contact the city at 905-874-2081.

Best of luck,

Lang

By: jasantha balakumar

jasantha balakumar — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:23:37 +0000

can someobody from the city of brampton who deals with the buildings of new homes please send me some info about how high the steps in the front of the house have to be in order for the builder to be responsible to put up a fence on our front patio..do you have measurements? please if you could provide me with that info/what happens if the builder should put a fence up and doesn’t? who do i contact?
Thank you very much for your time and i hope to hear from u soon.