They have never given me any reason to look for another host and their CMS system is unbeatable for usability! Just my opinion I realize but there are two sides to everything.

He blows smoke up everyones arses by claiming he his protecting his employees from demoralization (how does that bull taste), from the general public/the American public/unfortunate Homestead Customers… the ones who dare to complain about the crappy service and crappy product that Homestead shoves down their throats once Homestead has stolen their money!! Now that is the truth of it.

A perfect analogy is: J.K. is the serpent … and the unknowing Newbies of the American Public and Internet world are his prey! Nothing but the truth here. He tries in areas of his writings… to candy-coat his malfeasance; but anyone with a functioning brain who does not go “baaah-baaah…” can see right through his candy coated poison.

Let’s call a spade a spade… J.K. and his band of well trained thugs (and that is all they are well trained in), are no better than a mugger on the street - the end result is the same!

The truth is anyone who produces a good product and gives good customer service - people/customers do not complain they compliment and appreciate - for 98% of the population that is true!

Fact… people would not be signing up as customers and paying Homestead their hard-earned money if Homestead employees/reps were not telling them that Homestead would deliver what they were looking for. Justin Kitch with his bogus BS that he spews out in his blogs - is taking all of the public to be pooop eating idiots… he insults everyones intelligence! He is wrong he is not fooling all of the people all of the time… Guess what Justin! A lot of us know you for who and what you really are!!!

The most incredible part of this hideous story is that Intuit allowed this parasitic money mongering thief to remain at the helm of Homestead… to continue thieving from and demoralizing Homestead Customers… thus delivering the deplorable and unacceptable message to Mr. JK that his evil/dastardly/practices is OK and even gets his “evil creation” purchased at 170 million and still leaves the crook in charge…. where is Intuits heads at? What does this say about them????????

Leaves most of us with functioning brains wondering… Birds of a Feather Flock Together… have you noticed that 99% of Cliches are TRUE.

The final question is who is going to have the B- - - - to finally step up to the plate - and put a stop to JK’s legal and moral abuse?

What goes around does come around - often times here in many ways… i.e., bad health, etc etc. - often times not until the Judgment Day - but the FACT is one day Justin Kitch will receive treatment in kind for the horrid way he and his staffers treat the general public now. So keep up your abuse Justin God is watching and guess what he is a higher power than you.

Would appreciate the help.

Thanks - Cherie

I must get my files from Homestead. Can you please tell me how you removed yours?

I can appreciate SOME of what Justin said on his blog, but the heavy emphasis on “demoralization” in regard to employees was pretty annoying to read about. Why is employee morale important while customer morale is NOT? And its very clear, from that article and also my past experiences with Homestead that this is the case. If you have issues with Homestead, the customer service people have NO problem treating you like a tiresome burden, and its clear to me now, why that is. And getting back to the issue of morale, its pretty “demoralizing” as a customer to be told that you come third. I am sure plenty of Homestead customers were afraid to voice their concerns after reading that.

It sounds like demoralizing customers is an acceptable method of raising the morale of employees at Homestead. I am very glad that I never went back to them.

Even if you have never built a website before…if you’re goal is to have a website that looks like you paid to have it built for you, and have flexibility to grow as you expand your abilities…Homestead is not your solution.

Personally I don’t have a problem with their crappy looking form elements, etc. I have found a way to work around a lot of the stuff although in many cases I had to buy seperate programs to build what I need and then upload it (in html) to Sitebuilder. Mind you, that is not any different than any other way you might find to creatively build your site.

Of course, it doesn’t allow you to do anything really dynamic, and herein lies the problem:

Homestead does not appear to me to really care much about improving what they already have.

Not being able to utilize php is a perfect example. They ran a beta test a few years ago and ultimately “shelved it” because they claimed that not enough users wanted it. LOL — ok ok I get it…a lot of the dummies who spend 90 minutes creating their amateur-ish looking website don’t want it, which is probably 80% of their customer base…but guess what?

Weblogs are going to take over the traditional website for 90% of those 80%, so that’s 72% of Homesteads existing customer base that will likely smarten up and just move over to Wordpress or Blogger eventually anyways.

Ultimately Homestead doesn’t care — they don’t care about having a cutting edge program, and I’m thinking there’s a good chance it bites them in the ass eventually.

OR…maybe they know something we don’t. Maybe they know they’ll be gone in a couple years anyways.

Since Intuit purchased Homestead for somewhere around $170 million over a year ago I would imagine the customer service has improved?

As a user of many Intuit products including Quick Books Enterprise I have contacted their customer service in the past and have always had a good experience.

Maybe we will start hearing positive comments from Homestead users!