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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.
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Barbara42
Jim Walter Homes are not home builders, but home demolishers!!!
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

Where to start at? We bought our home in 1984 about four or five years after it was built from a couple that worked on the boat. They were not home much to notice the problems that...

#309981
Apr 04, 2012
210

JAFRANKS
Jim Walter Homes - Sold a bad home
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

I was approved for a home in 2007 never the last did i know this home was in bad shape the floors, windows and the unit want work the door frams had to be replace. no upstairs rail...

#305097
Mar 15, 2012
194

Bsimons
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter's are crooks!!!
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

We built our Home in 2007. It is already falling apart. Not enough support under the house. All the sheet rock in the house has cracks. Windows and doors will not close. Cabin...

#304163
Mar 12, 2012
215

Walters ...
Jim Walter Homes - Pissed and want answers
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

They don't know how to build homes and do very shotty work there isn't a square wall in the house the sinks leak into the cabinets below the house isn't very well structurally supp...

#300903
Feb 28, 2012
284

Eloymoya
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter sold me a damaged uncompleted product
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

Jim Walter is not a homebuilder they are somebodies not nightmare. They cant take responilbilty so they change there names to look different and sucker more people in. They are qui...

#297552
Feb 15, 2012
295

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Would not fix my window mold, siding cracking, and will not come out to check these things.
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

Our house was done in 1991-92, and no one has come out to check our siding, window mold, bathroom mold, sink, and facuets all too cheap. The plug ins are all torn up and I have to ...

#295879
Feb 09, 2012
247

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
404

Jazzmine1
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter + Walter Mortgage Company = Crooks
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
748

Kjjk
Jim Walter Homes
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
387

Ladyjp88
Jim Walter Homes - Taking our money, but will not fix anything.
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
247

Grumpy19...
Jim Walter Homes - Do not want to understand that problems are happening
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
258

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim walter *** us over im soory but we are pissed
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
430

Rntcol02
Jim Walter Homes - Our jimwalter home is falling apart..we need help..
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
724

Tray
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter is a rip off and liar
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
570

Brianerb
Jim Walter Homes - Use of substanard material on construction jobs
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
704

X4livin
Jim Walter Homes
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
848

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - I have a jwh,it was never build correct,
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
612

Mindypet...
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walters Homes built a substandard house.
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
1229

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes lousy construction
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
614

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim walter = poor construction
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
649

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes are crooks.
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
486

Drawdez
Jim Walter Homes - Help Needed!
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
600

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jwh is full of crooks
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
646

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - OUR JIM WALTER HOME IS FALLING APART !
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
489

Meika82
Jim Walter Homes - They didn't do a good job
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
458

Angry Ho...
Jim Walter Homes built me a lousy house
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
666

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - I worked for Walter Industries in Tampa
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
1416

Myevans
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter employess are liars, beware!
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
745

Dhblbk
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter Home
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
1125

Anonymous
Jim Walter Homes - Jim Walter home nightmare
5.0 4211 W. Boy Scout Blvd TampaFL33607 1-800-925-8374, 1-800-888-9258 http://www.midas.com/AboutMidas/ContactUs/tabid/167/Default.aspx

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
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