I'd decided to buy the house when it was no more than a shell in July 2013 - not recognising all its many faults because of the missing finishes. However, by July 2014, there had been zero progress made on the house by IQ, and - as my contract to rent a house elsewhere was coming to an end, we pushed IQ hard for a completion date, given as October 2014. By September, still nothing had been touched, except that a perimeter wall had been built nowhere near the position described by the then foreman. In early October, we had a meeting with Mr IQ who was evasive and arrogant, wanting to INCREASE the agreed price as we hadn't moved in!!! That increase was cancelled, and a financial allowance granted to us as he said that he had no workers available to complete it and so we appointed a different contractor to complete the build. Many hundreds of thousands of baht later, we moved in on Christmas Day 2014.
(That's the short version of the tale! The full story would take a week to describe, and we're STILL having issues with major aspects of IQ's own workmanship. EG the living room ceiling collapsed 18 months ago when the between-floors pipe joints in the en-suite came adrift. IQ workmen fixed that, confiding in us that many other homes had the same problem. However, another leak is now affecting the other upstairs hong naam bdrain, rending the shower unusable. Promises to come and see to it were made last November, but haven't been kept despite reminders. A formal complaint to the Thai equivalent of Trading Standards is about to be made, just as it was while the house was being built, when a hip tile that hadn't been screwed in place slipped off the top roof, smashed into a lower roof, and then damaged a passenger door, bonnet (hood), windscreen, door glass, wing, door mirror, and the windscreen of our then-car which was all subsequently fixed at IQ's expense after many refusals by them!)