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Jim Walter Homes, Inc. is a homebuilding company. The company was founded in 1946 by Jim Willis Walter as a homebuilding business in Tampa, Florida. Dyring the second half of the last century, the company expanded into a conglomerate with coal mining business, ductile iron pipe business, and companies manufacturing windows, carpet, paper and many other building-related products. The company completed its initial public offering in 1964.

At the present time,Jim Walter Homes builds affordable homes on the land of the customer. The company provides home plans, virtual tours, a number of designs and mortgage financing. Please try to contact Jim Walter Homes Customer Service directly prior to posting any complaints on this site.

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Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes

I was reading all the complaints on how people are unhappy with Jim Walter Homes and how rude their employee's are and I must say I agree with everyone 110 per cent they build ...

#287831
Jan 10, 2012
103

Jazzmine1
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter + Walter Mortgage Company = Crooks

My husband and I gave our land to Jim Walter Homes so that we could provide a safe home for our four children. When we decided to have a new home built we were living in a twenty y...

#286688
Jan 05, 2012
158

Kjjk
Jim Walter Homes

JIM WALTERS AREA REPRESENTATIVES ARE VERY VERY RUDE AND ACT VERY UGLY WITH THERE CUSTOMERS.ONE REPRESENTIVE TOLD ME I ACTED LIKE HIS WIFE.VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.THESE PEOPLE ARE HORRI...

#277319
Nov 26, 2011
172

Ladyjp88
Jim Walter Homes - Taking our money, but will not fix anything.

Jim Walter has repeatedly ignored our request to fix our home. Our bathroom floors have rioted, and a lot of mold and mildew, our floors have buckled plus soft places in the f...

#272114
Nov 01, 2011
122

Grumpy19...
Jim Walter Homes - Do not want to understand that problems are happening

I am a Jim Walters customer from Tennessee my biggest complaint is that they don't get things done in proper amount of time.My compressor went out already in a 4 year old home...

#263253
Sep 21, 2011
143

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim walter *** us over im soory but we are pissed

We gave our land to jim walter to put a home on they ran game on us they told us our morgage would be about 1700 a month *** to find out our morgage was 2800 our house is not done ...

#261356
Sep 12, 2011
264

Rntcol02
Jim Walter Homes - Our jimwalter home is falling apart..we need help..

Does anyone know how to contact jim walter homes? we are Louisiana built our home in 2009..the bathtub is falling out cracks running up the walls..floor is coming up;and we cant fi...

#255156
Aug 12, 2011
450

Tray
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter is a rip off and liar

My Jim Walter home is 4 yrs old and it is a complete mess! All of my electrial work was done wrong and everything is wired on one switch! How in the world do they think this would ...

#252638
Aug 01, 2011
350

Brianerb
Jim Walter Homes - Use of substanard material on construction jobs

I am in the process of buying an older house constructed by Jim Walter Homes. Come to find out now all the work has been done with materials that aren t to code for residential hou...

#247234
Jul 06, 2011
510

X4livin
Jim Walter Homes

We had our home 90% in 2005 in north central texas. I took pictures daily as they completed work. The vertical beams in the upstairs walls spun(one nail in top, one in bottom. I an...

#245558
Jun 26, 2011
589

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - I have a jwh,it was never build correct,

I have a poorly builded jim walter home, we never sign any papers excepting the home, one of the district managers came and sign off on it with my contractor robert, he had the ner...

#244948
Jun 23, 2011
461

Mindypet...
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walters Homes built a substandard house.

Jim Walters Homes constructed our house in 2004, near Tyler, TX. Even during construction, we knew there were problems. These problems included using old, rotten wood in the fra...

#242045
Jun 08, 2011
756

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes lousy construction

I am glad Jim Walter Homes is out of business. What lousy construction. I upgraded the windows and doors and have replaced them this year. My house was built in 2003. If I didn'...

#226690
Mar 14, 2011
509

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim walter = poor construction

My home was built in 1997, took 9 months for them to built it. they let this house set for over two weeks in tennessee febuary weather with nothing done.paid 1500 extra...

#226484
Mar 13, 2011
494

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes are crooks.

We purchased a Jim Walter home about three years ago and have been having problems ever since. We have called several times about the problems with our home, and always get the ru...

#222821
Feb 21, 2011
408

Drawdez
Jim Walter Homes - Help Needed!

I purchased my home less than 10 years ago, I'm now having structural problems with my floors. I have holes in my floor near my kitchen door and the remaining floors in the kit...

#218268
Jan 26, 2011
522

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jwh is full of crooks

From the time my husband and I have had our home built we have had problems with jwh.Harass phone calls, increase in mortgage payments, and constant unexpected arrival ...

#215161
Jan 07, 2011
556

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - OUR JIM WALTER HOME IS FALLING APART !

OUR JIM WALTER HOUSE IS FALLING APART. WE HAD TO HAVE A HOUSE BUILT QUICK. THE WORKMANSHIP ON THE HOUSE WAS BY LOCAL WORKERS.THESE PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE HIRED TO BUILD ME A DOG HOUSE...

#209895
Dec 03, 2010
349

Meika82
Jim Walter Homes - They didn't do a good job

The racks in the closet are falling and the back door frame is comming apart and my house is four years old they didnt do a good job at all.They wasn't finish when they said it...

#207289
Nov 15, 2010
366

Angry Ho...
Jim Walter Homes built me a lousy house

For over two years I have tried to resolve the issues concerning the two story house i had built by Jim Walter homes for my wife and family to only continue to have a terrible excu...

#206808
Nov 11, 2010
517

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - I worked for Walter Industries in Tampa

I worked for the Tampa office. Walter Industries. WHAT A JOKE. I ran credit and reviewed mortgage applications before turning them over to the Underwriter, among massive other resp...

#206087
Nov 07, 2010
1168

Myevans
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter employess are liars, beware!

I am a single mother of two, who really wants to stop renting and own my own home but due to bad credit, it is hard for be to obtain financing. I saw this cut Jim Walter for sale i...

#203369
Oct 19, 2010
670

Dhblbk
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter Home

My husband and I had our Jim Walter built in 2005. Everything went smoothly for us. We did not have any problems with the construction.Our floors, walls,sinks,appliances and a/c/he...

#199122
Sep 19, 2010
845

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter home nightmare

We bought this house thinking. great location, quite friendly neighbors and loved the way the house looked all together. Well its 2 story and the upstairs bathroom was done so poo...

#192212
Aug 03, 2010
959

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Poor management, construction and service = Jim @Walters Homes

My home was completed i November 1998. The building supplies were delivered in June 1998. They sat there in the scorching Texas heat and rain until August when the building super...

#189553
Jul 14, 2010
1018

Bobbie08
Jim Walter Homes - Jwh

I want to know if anyone has built a JWH bakersfield style? do you have 14' ceilings? if you do please let me know where you built your house at. we were told the model we...

#188447
Jul 06, 2010
765

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes built cheap houses

It appears that 1 of the main persons complaining against Jim Walter Homes appears to have been bought off. A week ago she told persons that Jim Walter homes was offer...

#173778
Mar 06, 2010
1959

Wanda
Jim Walter Homes - Gave me a rotten house!

My home has no heat, or air. The structure has falling apart and I haven't had the house over five years. They didn't complete inside no appliances. Didn't measure the ...

#172592
Feb 25, 2010
1176

Need4more
Jim Walter Homes - Very crappy built Jim Walter home Alvin tx!!! Need 4 more!!

Ok as every other Jim Walter house mine has been crap since we built it in 2006!! My dream home yeah right it's my NIGHTMARE! It started out with our a/c freezing up in the fir...

#172417
Feb 23, 2010
3226

QueenBra...
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walters Homes???What a joke!

First of all, it took them almost a yr to build my so called home. (small) They didn't get the kitchen window right, so now my kitchen sticks out into my dinning room. (looks b...

#171112
Feb 12, 2010
893
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