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I purchased a log home package back in Spring of 2016. Drove up to Williston and as soon as we walked through the door, Bubba dropped what he was doing to meet with us and go over floor plans and options. He even gave us a tour of the mill! We were impressed and excited to start building our custom log home. Right away, we made the decision to go ahead and purchase the engineered plans and put down a deposit for the material. Bubba recommended that we should have one of his b. Uilders build our home because they have the most experience with his packages.
A few weeks after purchasing the engineered plans and putting a deposit down on the package, I was contacted by a recommended builder from Cracker Style Log Homes, Tracy Winters from Winters Construction. We had 2 COSTLY ERRORS that occurred under Tracy's supervision: Metal Roof and Stain on Logs. I asked Tracy over and over again for a revised cost schedule sheet and NEVER received one as he promised. For about a year, I paid Tracy promptly every week (within 2 hours of being billed/invoiced) for 3-4 days worth of work on average of $4-5k and his crew average 3-4 workers each week.
The build ended up taking too long and going over budget (mainly due to labor expense). In September of 2017, we were $60k over budget (in labor) from the original cost sheet provided at the beginning of the build. There were some changes/additions, but not $60k worth.
In January of 2018 we had no choice but to terminate Tracy from finishing the house. Now Tracy has gone silent and has not reimbursed me for the money he owes me from not paying our foundation/concrete subcontractor.
June 1st, we finished building the house ourselves and attained the CO to move in. Bubba is no longer recommending Tracy with Winters Construction as a builder for his packages and is sending us our blind inserts for 2 of our doors that we didn't receive when Tracy was our builder.
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It was a costly experience but we are grateful that Bubba is doing what he can to help us.