A tipster has provided Swamplot with the actual address of the Houston office of Obra Homes, a homebuilder that’s been making itself rather scarce these days:
They are located at 9186 Katy Freeway on the 2nd floor of the Flagstone Lending Group building. As soon as you walk up the stairs, the door in front of you is their office.
Is this office location really that much of a secret? The street address, at least, is mentioned on at least one easily Googled website.
On the other hand, the huge Obra Homes showroom on 290 has closed forever, and the homebuilder appears to have vanished from the the office building on 290 that bears its name. An attorney representing the company told Fox 26 reporter Randy Wallace late last month that Obra has a phone number, but no location.
You can’t even get into the company’s website without a password. But . . . thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine, the “Our Commitment” statement proudly displayed on the Obra Homes site as recently as last year is still available:
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Our Commitment
From day one at Obra Homes, we have dedicated our way of life to building homes that will give people the better way of life they want; homes that are designed to fit individual lifestyles, in great neighborhoods, that are affordably priced and, above all, BIG!
Building lasting value in our homes is at the very heart of everything we do. We understand that buying a home is one of the biggest decisions of your life; a decision that will touch you and your family every single day. Our job is to make the process of selecting and building your home a simple, memorable, and trouble free one. This process starts with creating value and comfort for you in a home that you can enjoy for years to come. Our commitment is to provide you with a buying experience and home that you will cherish for a lifetime. This is the standard which all our homes are founded upon.
This is our way of life and our promise to you.
- Our Commitment [Obra Homes, via Internet Archive]
- Obra Homes [Kudzu]
- Obra Homes: Gone Missing [Swamplot]
Graphic from former website: Obra Homes, via Internet Archive
Our subdivison “Briar Grove” in Edinburg, Texas, was built by Obra Homes and we have been without street lights for nearly 3 weeks, Magic Valley Electric Coop. recently made a comment to our local News station KRGV, the reasoning behind the lights being shut off was due to an outstanding bill by Obra Homes. There has been a lot of theif in the past 3 weeks due to not having any lighting in our neighborhood. WHERE IS OBRA HOMES? No one knows, our neighborhood is in the process of looking for an attorney so that we can collect from Obra-if they still exist?
Our subdivison “Briar Grove” in Edinburg, Texas, was built by Obra Homes and we have been without street lights for nearly 3 weeks, Magic Valley Electric Coop. recently made a comment to our local News station KRGV, the reasoning behind the lights being shut off was due to an outstanding bill by Obra Homes. There has been a lot of theif in the past 3 weeks due to not having any lighting in our neighborhood. WHERE IS OBRA HOMES? No one knows, our neighborhood is in the process of looking for an attorney so that we can collect from Obra-if they still exist?
My name is Victor J. Cruz and I live in an Obra Subdivision in Converse, Texas, a small town right outside of San Antonio, in 2003 and the County(Bexar) initially provided Obra
with a “Plush List” which is a list of Codes that obra homes did no follow when building our neighborhood streets that are in front of our houses. They were told to correct the deficiencies but were not stopped from building until they were corrected. The county said it is not their job to stop the building process and they let Obra homes continue to build the streets and homes. Now 6 years later, all of 0ur streets are crumbling with large pot holes and the drive ways are literally crumbling that we are having to put sand bags and put our own rocks down so we are drive our vehicles up our driveways. Little neighborhood kids are playing in the ditches and large cracks that they are being missed or dodging vehicles that are trying to get home swirving to miss the large pot holes. The county is wanting to charge each home owner $7,000 to $10,000 to fix the streets to the “it’s minimum” driving capacity. The entire neighborhood will be charged 1.2 million dollars or more to fix the problems that Obra homes and the County initially new before we purchased our homes. this was not discolsed to any of us by obra or the County so we all are upset not knowing where to go with this since Obra went out of business and is no where to be found. If anyone knows where they are at or any represensative is around, please contact me at 210-544-0002 or via email Victcr2@yahoo.com.
Victor J. Cruz
If I knew better I would have NEVER purchased from Obra homes. They have yet to complete our neighborhood and did not follow their contract. Homes in the area were not to be built smaller than the 1800 sq. ft. series, and we have homes that look like LITTLE BIRD HOUSES and it makes the neighborhood look GHETTO! We have families of 20 in one big 2 story home with 10 cars parked infront of the house-street & on yards. It is so trashy. Lots are vacant that have tall weeds and trash. This is not what was promised. OBRA IS A FAILURE TO ALL COMMUNITIES THEY HAVE BUILT. Our neighborhood has about 10-15 homes that are up for sale due to more construction-houses are falling apart. Now I know why they went out of business.
The timbermeadow subdivison i Houston can not get a HOA established till obra sells all lots only 2-3 left in entire subdivison along with small strips too small to build a home, so till than all are left to fall aprt and decent hardworking people see their property values go down, also street lights have been off for two weks now, obra still under obra, county can’t help, … never trust them
Does anyone have any information of OBRA HOMES bankruptcy? I am also in TimberMeadows and a few of us are trying to organize a meeting this coming Sunday, Nov 15th at 6 pm to see about hiring an attorney to contact OBRA Homes. Any info will help. Thanks.
In Houston, Some Obra lots have been purchased by Frontera Homes, they are also using the Obra Floor Plans. While researching, I could not find any relationship between Obras Owner and Staff Vs Frontera Owner and Staff. However, Frontera’s information is hard to find, only contact number is to the salesmand/building supervisor. I can not locate a CEO, DBA or board members for Frontera. It is awfully secretive, like Obra was when going under.
Do you know which lots they have sold to Frontera because I actually fell in love with them today and now I don’t know. But it does seem like Frontera is trying to do right. They are now affiliated with the BBB.
The owner of Frontera Homes (Jack Pollock)was a manager for Casa Linda Homes. They are all the same people that worked for Obra Homes and Casa Linda Homes in McAllen, TX.