Winton Flair Homes

Winton Flair Homes earns our A+ for the entire process of our settling in Las Cruces some thirteen years ago. Mr. David Blackmon and Mrs. Lydia Blackmon became our professional house-hunting team for more than four years before they built us the house which always has been was perfect for us. Listening and understanding exactly what our needs were, it was second nature to this experienced building team; they improved several ideas greatly in areas about which we knew nothing. Again, great listening skills, common sense, practicality, know -how. Under their direction, and through the extremely bright and knowledgeable talents of Mr. Oscar Najera, the house has been perfect through all seasons. All systems have been dependable; Energy Star has kept promises. This fine house has seen us through so many happy or challenging times that have come along in simple daily life. Mr. Jack Winton and his El Paso staff have ever been so gracious in answering any questions we have had; such intelligence, grace, trustworthiness there. Experts on Las Cruces, our esteemed friends David and Lydia Blackmon have become treasures to us, just as has become our treasure, our beloved "forever home", and a Flair Home, of course!

Wow...the ability to share a review is great; hopefully this will help you in your decision making process if you're considering buying a home from Winton Flair (WF). My experience? I've built a home for my family, and have numerous remodel and addition projects under my belt. Here is my advice, based on living the last 9+ years in a WF home we purchased new. 1) Get the home inspected by your own home inspector...not one a Realtor picks. Especially pay attention to the roof. They do HORRIBLE roofs. To save money, WF doesn't put the top layer on the build up roof system. They paint the felt layer with aluminum paint. This will be a nightmare of a maintenance problem for you because that method won't last more than a couple years befor you have to re-coat it. They also leave out other important components of the roof system...like flashing and crickets. You won't know they've done that for a few years into ownership, after which your warranty is over. The result? Lots of water damage! Also, the dry climate here works in WF favor. You can have an issue and not know about it until we get a heavy rain event. We didn't know for a couple years. 2) Our second floor squeaked terrible. When I pulled up the carpet, I was not surprised to find that they used very few screws and those they used were drywall screws instead of proper deck screws, and they were too short. Framers had set a few nails in, and that what squeaked. I pulled the screws out to replace them and add more; in the process I found that most didn't hit the floor joists. I also found that the decking had been exposed to a lot of moisture and was warped. What a job to fix it! Don't know how it passed the City permit inspection! Oh, and they installed carpet over floors that had not even been swept...aside from saw and drywall dust, I found nails, cigarettes, and other trash. 3) Warranty. Make no mistake, if you can get them to come, they fix it with caulking and nothing more! So don't trust their warranty folks. I'm fixing the issues myself after what I've seen the work they do for warranty...it'll be just enough to get past the 1 year warranty point, after which they'll argue with you and you'll probably never hear back from them. In closing, if you're handy (i.e. You're not afraid of tackling major issues yourself), and you get the home for $25k less than an already awesome deal buy it. I'm pretty handy, but I paid new home price at market value. If you're looking to buy a truely turn-key home that you won't have to worry about for years, you might scratch WF from your list. I don't expect anything from WF over this. If you read below my review that they tried to contact me, I wouldn't believe it. And pay close attention to the low WF google ratings...they're probably more valuable to you than the high ratings!

Winton has been wonderful. I've never dealt with such an excellent staff that really works with you like they do at Winton Homes.

My Wife and I go home window shopping on the weekends to gain ideas for our future home. We have always been impressed with the quality of homes built by Winton Flair Homes. They are by far one of the better home builders in El Paso. They use some of the highest quality products on the market today.

We love the house we built but we had to watch and stay on the builder every step of the process. Winton tried to take many shortcuts along the way. It started with them framing right over very large cracks in the foundation. Once a probelm was brought to their attention it was fixed, but I would be concerned for homeowners thast did not watch the process as close. We closed in December 2012 and our supervisor still has not fixed windows that are scratched and the custom front door that was poorly stained.