This company now goes by the tradename "MI Builder...

This company now goes by the tradename "MI Builders". Bought this house in 2008 from Plantation Homes, which is one of the trade names MHI uses. This has been the lousiest house/build quality I've ever seen in a home. My father was a master tradesman/craftsman, and he taught me about build quality when I was a kid. We have had nothing but problems, but mostly with the A/C system. We have had at least 20 service calls, warranty and out of pocket, in the 9 years we've lived here. The system costs me over $400 to keep this house cool during the hotter months, which is pretty much year round in Texas. The builders put in substandard units, which are too small to properly cool the house, by about HALF the size it should be. That makes the system have to work way too hard and causes excessive cost to run. We recently replaced (yet more) grass in the front yard and when the flowerbeds were dug up, there were HUGE chunks of concrete, thrown in as fill when the house was built. UNBELIEVABLE... this is what has been causing all the grass to die repeatedly, because all that concrete (and other rock) they left behind, holds the heat for much longer during the evening hours, killing the grass. I've had cracks in my walls (many of them very crooked), creaks in my floors. The salesperson was a joker, and really knew nothing about the build process other than he made a huge commission off the outrageously priced upgrades. He told us it would take a minimum of 4-6 months to build, so we rented an apartment for a 6-month term. The house was ready to live in within TWO months, which did not even give us time to correct/upgrade any of the things that we wanted changed along the way. Once the house was ready, they started hounding us to close on it, which means I still had to pay for several months' worth of apartment rental for no reason whatsoever. These are only a VERY FEW of the issues we've had with this company. Incompetence on a grand scale. I would avoid this builder at all costs.