check to make sure the walls are 2x4s too. 
i have walls made from 1x6s.
maybe they cut corners there too ;p
you said doors are sticky, are the windows as well? and lock/unlock smooth?
do these ryan homes cheat by using al wiring or 16 gauge or something stupid too?
sounds like an easy money saver. probably got inspected though… we hope
This is true with pretty much any builder. My friend had a nice house built by a reputable home builder and they charged him extra for garage door openers!!! Who would ahve guessed that wasn’t part of the regular package in 2008. lol
Ours is a 10 year old Ryan, and overall, it’s just fine. Yeah, couple of drywall cracks here and there, but easily fixed.
My biggest issue was with their sewer work. They didn’t bed enough stone under either the storm or main sewer pipes leading from the house towards the road. One, the main sewer, sags a bit (lazy), so about once a year, I have to purge it out. The storm sewer completely collapsed in the middle, so I had to bobcat up the front yard and replace it. Really shitty, thin-wall stuff. That weekend sucked.
Still, the house as a whole…perfectly fine.
214,000 for a 90x160 lot, fucking WOW. My house might not be as big, but i live around the corner from that house, and have 2 acres for 100,000 less. I have looked at ryan homes, those ones in particular. I saw them drop the pre maid walls and roof sections off and let them lay in mud and rain until they got time to put the house up. Those are loose as houses, gonna crack walls for a long time. But the neighborhood is great, im just not much of a development type of person.
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I see nothing wrong with charging extra for garage door openers. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if you want a cheap mc mansion, you gotta make it cheap somehow.
Yeah you pay a hell of a premium for a neighborhood. Taxes are worse than the increase in home cost. Windows were fine, paint and drywall was good too.
i worked at a couple in lancaster (remodeling them, not building) pretty much all of the doors were set up retarded, like opening into each other. not enough outlets, everything in the kitchen was not square, and a side of the house was actually falling off lol. this was like that on 2 of the homes.
and yes the floors and stuff are generally cheap because you get what you pay for. they have upgraded packages when you build new. it’s not a complete custom home
We have had customers that had 7 year old windows before they even moved in LOL.
Also my co worker had a wall thickness of less than 2x4 on the front foyer wall, that went up 2 stories.
I know they have gotten better over the years and I think I was told they changed ownership at some point.
I would take all these comments as a word of caution, and if you dont know what your looking at, pay a good contractor to look over the place, not a home inspector (worthless).
That’s good advice. A contractor (not fucking hughesco either) will see stuff that an inspector won’t. Another thing to ask yourself is, is this house built to last? If it’s a lower end build it’s probably going to have some annoying things like feeling the house move in wind storms. My 1952 house was built like a bomb shelter and has great bones like a tongue and groove roof and flooring and poured basement that has never had a drop of water in it.
i own one, built in 09.
DO NOT BUY ONE! ive delt with every home builder in the western new york area and these guys are the worst! every aspect of a ryan home is a joke. they rip people off that just dont know any better. fry dont do it you will really really regret it down the line
WTF?
when i worked at ross rental in lockport we had people coming in to rent stuff to remodel, well more like “fix” their houses. alot of them were ryan homes, and just about all of them said the houses were of horrible quality. went to take siding and trim off to replace windows, only to find junk insulation and rotted out wood underneath and they were taking the exterior walls down to studs to fix it. these houses were built in the 80’s/early 90’s though.
if youre concerned about property taxes, stay out of pendleton. 1200 sq. ft. house with detached 3 car garage sitting on roughly a 1/4 acre appraised at 100k (after tons of argueing and getting appraisal down to that from when they tried raising it)and its 5k in taxes per year. granted the house is realisitically only worth about 70k.
i saw a comment about taxes being high in GI, i thought they were cheaper there on the island?
$6000+ in taxes per year!? Holy hell no thanks! $500 a month to uncle sam for nada.
I paid a little more for my house then your looking at and mine is 3000+sq ft 4 bed 2.5 bath full brick with detached 2.5 car garage (in Texas though obviously).
I would not pay that kind of money for a place I need to put work into. Wait and find something in rough shape for much less. I can’t believe what some people pay for houses.
Live there for 6 years and pay $36,000 in property Taxes. Eeeeeek
Ryan Homes is a perfect example of customers wanting the expensive look with the inexpensive cost. House looks great new, but needs significant updating and refurbishing within 10 years.
They are built in good locations and have good floor plans. Everyone falls for the appearance, without caring about it’s quality until it’s falling apart.
if its a ryan, you’ll be cryin
no, but really though, i delivered a piano to a ryan home at a development a while back. i was lol’ing at the roof shingles and vinyl siding missing from almost all of the houses in the neighborhood. once i got inside, the wavy drywall, and the best, i leaned on the railing to steady myself while bringing a freaking upright piano upstairs and the banister moved a solid few inches. the lady (who made us take off our shoes to bring a piano to an upstairs bedroom, and tipped us with a can of fucking pop, cheap yuppie fuck) yelled at me for even thinking about touching the railing. OMG god forbid, i loose my footing while picking up a fucking PIANO and go to steady myself on your rickety fucking ryan quality banister!
so, no.
LOL at a railing that is for looks only.
http://www.ryanhomes.com/about.aspx
"Impeccable Quality
Perhaps the most important difference of all is our homes. With one step inside a Ryan home, the extraordinary quality becomes evident. Look a little further and you’ll notice the rich character, the meticulous attention to detail, the exceptional craftsmanship. Chances are, before that first visit is over, you’ll finally understand what people mean when they say, “When you find the right home, you just know.”
Your home is a reflection of you. Shouldn’t your homebuilder be, too?"
Love it.
P.S.
since I saw taxes.
I pay $732/yr for my house @ 68k
It’s about 10 seconds over the genesse border in Alabama…
taxes are total win
1/2" gas pipe may be fine, depends on your pressure and regulator setup I guess.
kinda cheapo and retarded though.
What kinda furnace/AC does it have? Maybe they undersized the shit out of it for the sq/ft.
edit;
ohh man these guys are great.
http://www.hobb.org/content/view/717/384/
way to stay classy.
http://www.hobb.org/content/view/719/399/
tons of ryan homes hate sites out there.
jam, you can come touch my railing…
just saying
I think enough people have covered it. Buy it if you like, but keep a good $10k go $20k in the bank to cover the BS that you more than likely will run into. I’ve seen their use of cheap materials result in a lot damage to several homes with my own eyes, not just a “what I’ve heard” BS.
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