Covenant Homebuilders LLC

In my opinion Covenant home builders
Is the best builders around.

I first met Jeff Hipp as a Home Inspector, and he’s provided services for many of my Real Estate clients for several years now and I trust his knowledge of construction and building codes. I also recommend Jeff for home remodels and new construction. It’s also helpful that he has a background in commercial construction. As a real estate professional it’s important to have people like Jeff that I can trust to take care of my clients.

I hired Jeff Hipp (Covenant Home Builders) to finish building my house. By Jeff’s own estimate, the house was 85% complete and he promised me he would finish it in eight weeks. Cabinets and floors were installed, lighting and appliances were on site ready to be installed.

My eight week job turned into ten months and very little of it was done without some kind of screw up.
His crews repeatedly left the house unlocked when it had already been a target for theft and burglary. They used my tools without asking or bothering to put them back. They used my brand new furniture as their personal break area. They used the bathrooms when there was no water. They managed to soil, scratch or otherwise damage almost every surface in the place.
There were no supply chain delays. I know this because I personally purchased many of the parts and supplies: backsplash tile, plumbing fixtures, lighting, doorbell, gas logs…on top of what I paid him.

Check the arithmetic on any kind of accounting he gives you and double check that he hasn’t hired a second sub to finish a job you already paid a first sub to do. Make sure he didn’t charge you the flat rate he quoted, then itemize the costs and add them on again. He tried to charge me for multiple jobs two or three different ways, charged me for jobs that weren’t done, and overcharged for quoted jobs, ie, he quoted $350 for a job then tried to charge me $1200.
Seven months in, I asked him to sign a new contract agreeing to finish in 30 days or cut me a check for $7500. He signed it with no objection, assuring me that yes, he could be finished in thirty days. (Eight months past the original deadline.) He signed it with his usual promises then did nothing for ten days. On day eleven, he had his guys do a couple of jobs—cosmetic fixes, not anything that would actually get me closer to moving in. The house still lacked the same six inspections it needed on day one.
Did he make the thirty day deadline he swore blind was both reasonable and doable?
Of course he didn’t. And in the end, his original eight weeks took forty-one weeks and five days.
Jeff Hipp spent many tens of thousands of dollars of my money that he cannot account for in any honest way. And he continually reminded me he was doing me a favor because he felt so bad for me and that he wasn’t making any money on my job. Tell that to the three vacations and the shiny new dump truck.