We entered into a contract to purchase a home being built by Jason McGregor of Maclum Developments on October 20. We were to close on this home on December 1.
I sold my home and closed on it approximately three weeks before we were to close and move into the home being built by Mr. McGregor. It was then that we learned that there was over a twenty-three-thousand-dollar lien placed on the house by the governing HOA as Mr. McGregor never had gotten approval from the HOA to build the house.
In fact, Mr. McGregor had been told in person and through the mail to cease and desist building said home over and over by the HOA. The HOA had been trying to get McGregor to stop building the house for over six months before he went under contract with us to buy the home.
The real estate agent representing the builder, Jill Gilbo of Realty Executives Mountain View, was also told over and over to remove her sign during the same six month period before we were fraudulently induced into a contract.
When we learned of the fraud perpetrated upon us we had already sold and vacated our home. We were forced to live in a hotel for 8 months and our furniture in storage while we found another home. Our out of pocket expenses were over sixty-thousand-dollars.
We have a complaint filed with the Arizona Registrar of Contracts set for a formal hearing on April 6.
I have also learned that there are a total of four pending complaints against Jason McGregor / aka / Maclum Developments with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. I also read on the AROC website that Mr. McGregor's license was suspended for the month of August in 2007 for "lack of bond."
This builder is only in his twenties and has a horrible reputation that is only getting worse.
STAY AWAY from this guy, he is morally bankrupt. There are a lot of great and honest builders out there, Jason McGregor of Maclum Developments is NOT one of them.
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