Legal Woes for Builder and Owners in Resort Near Bend, Ore.

According to The Bend Bulletin, legal complications have shut things down at the Pronghorn Resort, which is about 15 miles north of Bend, Oregon. Two spec houses built by local builder Taylor Wolf at the resort sold for $799,000 and $925,500. A partnership was formed as Mission Statement Homes to keep the trend going and eight more jobs were started including a $2.26 million custom home in Broken Top, a gated golf course community in Bend. But then things went awry.

Poe said he and Wolf parted ways last fall. By June 24, Mission Statement Homes was out of business, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. Six home sites at Pronghorn were incomplete when Mission Statement folded, according to the owners and notices filed with Deschutes County. Wolf also faced a breach-of-contract complaint from the Broken Top homeowner, Tim Baggs, a Bend entrepreneur who helped launch Rockstar energy drinks.

Baggs, whose complaint is in closed arbitration proceedings, declined to comment. He’d spent $1.33 million on the house, which was begun in November 2017, when work stopped in February, according to the complaint filed in April with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board.

Pronghorn homeowner Gary Wart, of Vancouver, Washington, filed his own breach-of-contract complaint with the Oregon CCB on July 30. Wart paid Wolf and his companies $2.19 million toward a house contracted in March 2017 for $1.4 million, according to the complaint.