McKee Homes Ltd

Had a rather unsatisfactory experience at the McKee Show Home in Vista Crossing, Crossfield. We were ambushed by the salesman with an avalanche of nonsensical verbal diarrhea while viewing the show home. He started with asking us the value of our current home, which we have not yet had professionally valued, and firmly implied he could not give us any pricing of current McKee builds, if we can't present him with a current valuation of our existing home. Very strange, as the salesman has no insight into our financial standing, and neither should he have. The
only reason I can think of why our finances are of such interest to him, is that he may be thinking of tailoring his prices upwards to correlate with our available money. He continued babbling about his million $ home, and all the builds in Carstairs, which we had no interest in, and what route we should use when driving to Crossfield, how many homes he sold in December, how old he was, etc. After his verbal bombardment of 30 minutes, with not a single price or any information on what McKee Homes offer in Crossfield, we fled the show home in utter disgust. This is in stark contrast with the very professional service we received from Homes by Dream next door, where we were treated like valued prospective customers, our contact details taken, and exiting with a bursting folder with information on lot positions, house plans, build specifications and prices. Avoid the Crossfield show home salesman at all costs. His arrogance, disrespect and abrasiveness is unbearable.

Took possession of our house June 2020. The building process was good, staff was helpful.
Since moving in, trying to have repairs done is a hugh challenge.
They promise everything and anything, but haven't finished the deficiencies that their trades created.
I even we to new home warranty for arbitration and McKee declined to participate, but promised work would be completed within a month and a half.
I live beside there show home and the weed and grass is 4 feet high. Have even contacted the Owner of McKee along with almost everyone else in the company. More promised and nothing has be done.
I the community I live in there are two builder a d the other on is just as bad. Although we like this community, the builds only want your money and then good luck. The picture is much yard and McKee show home in the background

Contrary to previous reviews - we had a much better experience with McKee ...... overall we were pleased with their products, building quality and building process. We experienced no price surprises when the last nail was driven in and we were moving into our new home.

With every builder there is going to be construction issues. I believe this company has bitten off way more than they can chew and don't have the proper processes in place to keep up with all the work they have signed up with. There are some great staff but they all have way way way to much to do resulting in mistakes and missed items and taking a long time to get things corrected. This for us has resulted in some really unbelievable corrections having to be made during the construction phase. Its fortunate for them that they were found fairly early (by us) as it likely saved them thousands and thousands of dollars. We are a year in our home and still trying to get things corrected and finished. So tiring to organize the trades days and take the time off work. I would only use them again if they kept true to their motto " to bring the highest degree of craftsman ship and service to each home we build" tough to do when there doesn't feel that there is the ownership that was promised. Keep trying and hopefully get back to the roots that McKee was built on.

I would never build with McKee again… it the second time we had built a home so we expected a cetin amount if stress, but we where never prepared for what McKee offered. I will list a few of the issues below * Forgot a window when framing - was fixed after we informed the builder
* Forgot to install phone jacks in the home - fixed by running phone cord threw the cold air intake vents and cutting holes in the floor and wall.
* Flooring in the home installed 3 times, 1st time it was damaged by trades, 2nd time it was laid incorrectly and had to be removed, 3rd floor still in the home but it was glued incorrect and the seams are lifting.
* ½ wall going up the stairs did not meet code and had to be repaired after possession
* countertop was installed to low and appliances did not fit.
These are issues from a very long list. We have been in our home for a 11/2 years and have had over 20 trades days and are still waiting to have a few issues dealt with. Be very careful when choosing your home builder, do you research and ask for references you can call.