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Maricopa is 18x18 ceramic in the Kitchen and Dining areas as well as immediate entrance, 12x12 ceramic in all bathrooms, and vinyl in the laundry room.  Cost of replacing carpet or vinyl with the base ceramic is approx $9 a sq ft...consider the quality/cost of the tile (~$1/sqft online) and the...

What?!?!? A home builder trying to squeeze the most $$$ out of buyers? How dare they? Only IP is allowed such nonsense. Who has bought in Lambert Ranch? How expensive are their builder options/upgrades?

I don't feel the tone has changed recently.  Our pre-drywall was just a few weeks ago and I'd agree that overall the customer service has been pretty good.  I can point out several examples of how accommodating the sales staff has been...I like to check up fairly regularly on the construction of...

Referring to the side enter garage on Plan 3...In the model  to put a glass door to feature ping pong table in it to show that its more or less a rec room.  I mean you could use it as a car garage if you really wanted...

well IP has shown at Mendocino that they are willing to design a non-functional garage, so the next evolution would obvioulsy have to be to just get rid of the garage door completely and charge you more for it...

I'm assuming a California Garage is a euphemism for a car port...

I'm not quite sure how to interpret what you're asking in that question...are you saying that they have violated building codes in the construction of your house? Eating on site isn't a construction site violation.  Rain falling on your house mid construction isn't a violation. If they've...

so glad I was able to turn this into a thread about washing cars...apologies to the OP...but if the concern is water waste, I'm definitely more efficient with water usage  when I wash my own car than the big car wash businesses are.  And trust me, we dump a lot worse things down our storm drains...

again...how are you getting screwed? As a consumer, you should have done your homework before you agreed to buy the home.  If you don't like the terms, don't buy it or try to negotiate before you fork over your dollars. Just don't sit there and pretend that you're paying for something that...

There gets to be a point when you have to stop complaining just for the sake of complaining.  This is what it boils down to, you do not own the house under construction.  It is the builder's, in this case IP.  All you have done so far is agreed to buy the home from the builder after it has been...

ahh yes...lambert ranch...completely forgot about that, just usually associate it with homes over a million, but there are some just under as well.  In that respect too, the new homes slated to start selling in just a few months in woodbridge and university park might be attractive as well. ...

i'm pretty sure that cultured marble isn't a laminate.  it is a solid surface, though not natural like marble or granite. 

Yes and No...I tend to agree with the sentiment, but I'm also not flush with cash to drop on real estate investment...50% appreciation in 10 years as OP desires might be wishful thinking, but even if there is a brief dip in the immediate future, simple laws of supply and demand dictate that...

One thing you can know is that its JM Peters and is probably a pretty damn well built house.  Is that the model with the giant bonus room above the garage? Anyways though the pool is hideous...whoever landscaped that ought to be fired, or worse.  rip out the rocks, punch the pool and fill it in...

If its gonna get used a lot, maybe even by kids, then it will get beat up. Replacing a 2700 built in is a tough pill to swallow. I've seen some cool things on ikea hackers for built in an even floating desks that could fill that space nicely for a couple hundred bucks. Beat it up then replace it...

if its just property tax and melo roos that are holding you back, even if you went with both of those upgrades you're looking at $6 a year, which is roughly equal the pocket coins you accumulates in your car cupholder every couple of months. 

i don't know the floorplan or how big the desk is, but seems a little overpriced for plank of wood and some drawers (i'm assuming it has drawers or doors)...but if you're upgrading your cabinets to a different color, it might be harder to match that if you want add a desk later, if thats what...

If I'm reading that right, you're not allowed to wash your car?!?!?!? 

Also, IP has no incentive to build shoddy houses. As long as Irvine still has land to build, IP is going to be the builder on the majority of those projects...meaning they want higher resale values of their homes to push the market higher for new construction.  I'm not an IP fanboy, and I'll...

Thats like buying a car, getting the wheel upgrade and expecting it come with upgraded tires as well just because the go on top of the wheels...I'm not sure where all you guys have bought, but our process where we did has been smooth...might just be luck fo the draw getting a designer who...