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Saratoga Homes is one of those builders that are a mom and pop organization. They are privately owned, so there is no room to give the potential buyers extra incentives or negotiate. Be careful who they pair you up with, as this business is very cut throat. The partner I had was wonderful at first and I thought we were a good team, boy was I blinded! This person just flat out stopped returning my calls and texts. Making it incredibly awkward to return after I was on doctor's ordered sick leave. The upper management is very nice and try their best to get you a sale. The owners that are in Houston are delightful people. I feel that they honestly do care about you and want you to succeed. However, I did not feel comfortable enough to talk to them about my dilemma with my partner. I just went and found another sales job, which after the 250 question test that I passed the 1st time with blood, sweat & tears, I had to resign because I was told by several other employees that my partner was saying very negative and untrue things about me. I have been out of High School for too long to play these childish games. So lame. A few more negatives we're weekly, then daily meeting's at 8:30am at your model home. ( When this industry is always starting at 10am) that's why us salesman take on this type of job. They grade your car on a weekly basis, the MOST important and messed up part of working here, is that when it's time to get your monthly commission (if your lucky enough to sell an inventory home) your manager reviews you and DOCKS your COMMISSION! Examples: if your car is not up to par, if your attire is not up to their standards, and if you don't email your daily logs by 5pm to your manager.. there is more that they dock your commission for but I just can't recall. Did I mention that they have voice recorders in every room in every model home? It felt like an invasion of privacy, even if you were in the back porch they could hear you, even if you whispered they could hear you!!! WHAT??? I've never even heard of such a thing? Ugh.

 Who takes away commission from a straight commission sales consultant? That is incredibly counter productive! That makes for very unhappy employees!
 I know after I left, there were at least 5 other salesman that quit because of all the politics. I was really looking to make some good money with this company but I was let down in SO many ways. One positive thing that I must say is that the building product is top grade, so you will have a well built house. But, being an employee cost me more than I made every two weeks. Oh yeah, how can I forget they messed up on my paychecks more than once. Very unorganized.  
My suggestion is to find a job with another builder that will make your bank account happy and security on making your entire commission. I really hope Saratoga Homes makes several changes to UP the morale of their employees.

Working for Saratoga homes was extremely stressful. I found an ad & decided to apply to the position as I felt that it would be rewarding. The hiring process was quick. I had a group interview at first & was called back for a 2nd Interview Weeks later. I was hired about 3 weeks from my initial interview date. The company is family owned by a Father and his sons. So realistically if there are any issues within the company (they are corporate) Training was for 30 days. In an 8 hour day, training was held for maybe 4 hours. You are then expected to intake & learn all info and go to a model home & do your job. Communication within the company is horrible. I would call, email & text my supervisor and others within the company & NEVER receive a response. (Have them to prove it) They also give you 30 days to write your first contract on a home. If a contract isnt written, then unfortunately you are cut. Marketing itself was also a hassle. Prepare yourself to manage time. As you have to market to businesses and agencies across town & be at the model to help expected buyers . You do have to pay for items out of your own pocket & then the company will “possibly” reimburse you. They have not done that for me as of yet. They use your creativity for themselves. A few buyers from my tenure there decided to cancel due to the unorganizition & miscommunication. They were never told the status of their home as far as when it was being built from other sales members & when it came to picking out specs for new home buyers, the main complaint was always the design center due to them not knowing what was standard or upgrades in different homes. The pay was ok being that I was already accustomed to that pay rate for base pay but the commission was even better. $3000 base pay (draw/ capped at $9000) 2%commision of the sales price of a home. You will also be placed with a partner. In this business, when you hear partner don’t think of team mate. They’re your coworker & nothing more. When it comes to money this company has greed & your partner is realistically your worst enemy. If you are family oriented or have other responsibilities, I would NOT recommend this job as this takes up many hours in a day. I will say that working for Saratoga Homes helped me become more Self desciplined & learn how to deal with many attitudes/ beliefs. My advice to Saratoga homes upper management is to manage your staff & actually answer when they’re seeking answers. This can potentially help sales.

Very disorganized company, they dump unrealistic workload pretty much in all positions, no succession policy, just they want their puppet fit ppl in key roles. One of the key executives also an owner is completely intolerable,disrespectful and narcissist, he violates general HR policies. every time in meeting, he questions very private matters like some one's marital problem, asks how old are you? how many kids? personal life issues and uses those responses to manipulate and demean you in front of whole other members of the team and comes into aggression in tiny issues as if sky is falling , rampantly uses  bad words and curses on you in the meeting. He constantly chews stinky tobacco in meeting and tells "you stink" to employees whom he does not like and starts to preach you about bath, just his common formula for putting you down. Interesting thing is you will not be surprised to see that guy whines from one pole to another, slams table, door, wall, and all of sudden starts crying, drops tears with full of runny nose. He teaches his puppets to pressure and abuse words to harass employees of his target to release in all possible way.

You're whole life has to be Saratoga to work here. Expect minimum 60 hour weeks, you will not be able to take a weekend off no matter what, and you are expected to work on your days off. You have to hand write the whole contract on your first day as a hazing tactic to weed out the "weak" ones. Then you spend 14 days minimum straight "training" but they dont teach you much, you are expected to memorize a lot but not actually taught how to do the job. You are constantly told and reminded you are replaceable. They cant help you anymore after training becuase they're already interviewing for new sales reps. Your days are spent cold calling realtors to set up appointments for the weekend. I have no idea what you are supposed to say or how to set them up becusee I was never taught. Also, the ad for this job is wrong. You do not start at 36k. Its 24k. You get 2k. A month until you make a sale, then they increase your pay. Well, they say they will but they probably won't. You are also graded every month with a performance review and that determines how much of a "bonus" you get for selling a house. They said no one gets 100% so you'll never get 100% of your bonus for actually selling. Also, if you have preplanned vacations or days off and agree to it at the interview they WILL NOT honor it. Get it in writing AT THE INTERVIEW. They do not care about you at all here. 

Where do I start ... as a former employee. Let see. This company has no idea what they are doing when it comes to management and how to treat employees.  The company is family owned and as you can imagine they promoted the kids to run the business. No idea on how to lead people or developed talent. Long meetings where you are insulted and yelled at constantly.  The meeting drag on and on because the owner does not have the proper skills to conduct a meeting to get his point across... instead he just goes on and on for hours.
   As a former trainer myself I was completely shocked to see just how poor the training was. They expect you to actually be a car salesmen on a home. They pretty much set you up to fail by making you sit at home in areas where there is no homes to sell and still expect you to sell. There is zero balance between work and home. 50+ hours a week. 
   The pay is so bad that if you leave they will not even pay you your final check. 

   If I were to recommend a job to my worst enemy I wouldn't even recommend this company. 

Unprofessional. 
Lack of skills.
Worst company I worked with in my 30 years in the work world.

I was a model home hostess. The job overall was okay, but it was very boring. I was in a slow part of town and I was alone all the time. So I would spend a lot of time reading or sitting on the couch. 

The thing that I hated was that I would always ask for work to do, like any extra marketing work that was needed to be done, but they never gave me any assignments. 

I was also never given any information on whether or not I would have a future with the company. My boss let me go over the phone after they found a sales manager for the neighborhood I was assigned to. 

The pay was okay. I was getting paid $13/hr to sit on my butt pretty much and to be bored all day. They don't give you healthcare and there are no benefits package.

The work life balance is all right. Working weekends was a waste of time because I never had any visitors over the weekends. 

Overall, I never looked forward to going to work. I was thankful that I had a job, but I was spending my entire day by myself and I was sad a lot because I never had anyone to talk to or any actual work to do.

Saratoga Homes can provide an introduction to the homebuilding industry; however, the compensation structure may be challenging for many sales professionals. The monthly evaluation system, combined with the commission structure, can result in a significant portion of earned commissions—sometimes up to 56%—being withheld based on performance metrics.

Additionally, once the draw is repaid, the remaining income can feel disproportionately low compared to the amount of effort and time invested. This structure may create financial pressure and make it difficult to achieve consistent, sustainable earnings.

While it may suit individuals who are just starting out and looking to gain experience, those seeking more predictable income and a more balanced commission plan may want to carefully assess whether this environment aligns with their financial goals.

Start off with opening the model. Do drop off to the realtor on special they have on the house. Make sure we have 25 letters to mail out to receiptens to purchase the homes. Do calls to realtor for appartments follow up with prior customer who came in to see the model homes.  Create flyers for realtors and home of the week. 
show our homes to the customer and persuade to purchase a home.
I learn you have to be self motivated for this job and learn at a fast pace. You must sell above all even if it means taking you co-workers sales. Everyone is on there owe to sales minimum help from co-workers. The hardest part is convincing the customer to sign a purchase agreement. I enjoy showing the house to the clients and the amenities it has compare to others builders.

They don’t understand that starting off new in this career takes time to build a pipeline of people and where you get placed matters if you have homes that are already built in majority of people’s budget then of course you will succeed but if you get place where the homes are priced ridiculously high versus your competitor or not even built then go ahead and find somewhere else to work. This company only cares about themselves and finding a way to take money out of their employees pockets so you can work hard and bring in a lot of contracts but just remember you won’t get all that money thanks to their “evaluations” and your job will always still be on the line of being fired. They tell you that you will get $3,000 for training and when it comes time to getting paid you barely get half of that money to start. 

I worked at Saratoga and they REFUSED to pay me for the homes I sold, the training is a joke, they make you write a contract word for word and never explain anything to you, all you do in training is waste time in the back of the building doing absolutely NOTHING. Then after training they expect you to already know everything about their homes and start selling, so if you do get a sale you will most likely not know what to do next since they dont explain or even teach you the process of what happens after you get a sale. They say "the only way to get fired is if you font try or if you don't sell". I tried and got 5 sales in the 3 months I was there, 2 of them cancelled, so I had 3 active which were suppose to close by the end of this month. Then they refuse to pay my commission and instead give my sales to someone else after I already did all the hard work. 

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