Garbett Homes

Our experience with our Garbett home in Utah has been a nightmare. A nightmare that just won’t go away. We had a leak in our master shower that ran down through our kitchen ceiling and was pouring out of a light fixture. At first they just wanted to caulk it, but I persuaded them to look into the problem deeper. They found that the tile shower had been done completely wrong, and there was no water-proof barrier. It was a pain working with the Garbett warranty (team of only 2) and took about 1 month to finish and get our shower back. Then we had 3 leaks in our unfinished basement. 3 different cracks on several walls where water was getting through. Our backyard doesn’t drain correctly and so we had to buy a little sump pump from Amazon to drain water out of our backyard “pond” everytime it rains or even after our sprinklers are on. All of the constant water build up has killed several of our trees so far. The water also stinks as it sits there and is a hazard for our two kids under 4 years of age. We’ve been complaining about this for the last 9 months that we’ve been living here, but they refuse to fix it ( they finished our landscaping AFTER they made us close on the house, so we didn’t know that they would be digging a ditch back there). On top of all of this, we were told our home would be done in October 2023 but got done much faster and they gave us a closing date of July 2023. Which usually would be a good thing but we weren’t told this until 5 weeks before the new closing date and we still needed to get our house on the market and sell our former home. My wife was 8 months pregnant and I had to take time off work to get things ready. Our realtor asked for some more time as did we, but they wouldn’t budge ( they gave us 2-3 days grace is all). Our realtor said she’d never seen a company do this before. We would not have purchased this home from Garbett if we knew all of the problems that would transpire- all within 9 months of closing.