What's Included at The Reserve at Tequesta -- and DiVosta's 1-2-5-10 Year Warranty Explained

DiVosta backs every home at The Reserve at Tequesta with what it calls a 1, 2, 5, and 10-year warranty—and that's a genuinely different structure than what you'll find at most other new-construction communities in this part of Palm Beach County, where a straight 1-2-10 split is the norm. Here's what's actually included in the home and what each warranty tier covers.

What comes standard?

Every home includes impact-rated windows and doors, a metal roof, 8-foot interior doors on the first floor, and a 2-car garage. Buyers select their own cabinetry, countertops, and interior finishes during the build rather than choosing from one locked-in package—so what a specific home looks like depends partly on what the buyer picked, not just what DiVosta builds by default. That's worth understanding going in: two homes on the same street, same plan, can have noticeably different kitchens and finishes depending entirely on buyer selections made during construction.

The warranty, tier by tier

The headline number is the 10-year structural warranty, covering the load-bearing elements of the home—footings, bearing walls, and the structural components that would be catastrophically expensive to fix if something went wrong. Below that sits a 5-year tier covering water infiltration and internal leaks—this is the tier that's unusual. Most builders in this market run a straight 1-2-10 (workmanship, systems, structural); DiVosta adds a fourth tier specifically for water intrusion, which matters in a coastal Florida market where leaks around windows, doors, and roofing penetrations are one of the more common post-move-in complaints homeowners raise. Below that, a 2-year tier covers plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and other mechanical systems—the parts of a home that get used daily and are the most likely to need a service call in the early years. DiVosta's own materials don't spell out exactly what the first-year tier covers in the sources available—that's a fair question to ask directly at the sales center rather than assume matches another builder's fine print.

Why the 5-year tier is worth asking about specifically

A water infiltration warranty that runs 5 years instead of folding into a standard 1-year workmanship window is a meaningful difference if you're comparing builders side by side. Ask specifically what "water infiltration and internal leaks" covers—windows, doors, roofing penetrations, stucco cracking—because warranty language varies in exactly what counts as a covered leak versus one caused by something outside the builder's control, like a homeowner-installed fixture or damage from a storm event that falls under insurance rather than warranty.

What's not part of the included-features conversation?

HOA fees apply at The Reserve at Tequesta, though the specific monthly amount isn't something to take from a listing site—ask the sales team for the current figure, since it can change, and third-party aggregators are frequently out of date on exactly this kind of number. There's no CDD (Community Development District) fee, which DiVosta confirms directly on its own site—one less recurring cost than some newer Florida communities carry and worth factoring into a real monthly cost comparison against other communities you might be considering.

How this compares to buying resale

A resale home in Tequesta comes with whatever warranty, if any, survived from the original builder—and in a town where DiVosta calls this the first new home community since 2022, that means most of the resale stock nearby is old enough that any original builder warranty expired years ago. A new DiVosta home starts the warranty clock the day you close, with 65-plus years of DiVosta building in Florida behind the structural coverage. That's not a reason to skip an inspection on a new build—it's a reason the inspection conversation looks different than it would on a 20-year-old resale, where you're often inspecting for wear rather than confirming a fresh build meets spec.

Questions to bring to the sales center

Beyond the standard warranty documents, it's worth asking how DiVosta's local team handles warranty claims in practice -- average response time, whether there's a dedicated local warranty rep for this community, and how the claims process actually works once you've moved in. A warranty is only as good as the process behind it, and that's not something a printed booklet fully answers.

Why impact windows and a metal roof matter here specifically

Tequesta sits in a hurricane-exposed part of the Florida coast, and impact-rated windows and doors aren't a luxury upgrade in this market -- they're the baseline expectation for new construction, and DiVosta builds them in standard rather than treating them as an add-on. The same logic applies to the metal roof: it's a material choice suited to South Florida's wind and storm exposure rather than a purely aesthetic one, and it's worth understanding as part of the included package rather than something to price-shop against a shingle roof elsewhere, since the two aren't really comparable products in this climate.

What "all appliances included" typically means

Included appliances on a new-construction home generally cover the core kitchen package -- range, dishwasher, microwave, and refrigerator in many cases -- but the exact list and whether laundry appliances are part of the base package varies by builder and even by specific quick-move-in home. Get the itemized appliance list in writing before you assume what's included matches what you saw in the model.

Reading a warranty booklet without a law degree

Warranty documents are written in the same dense, exclusion-heavy language as an insurance policy, and it's easy to skim past the parts that matter most. Focus on three things when you read DiVosta's: what triggers a claim, how long you have to report a problem once you notice it, and what voids coverage—usually things like unauthorized modifications or deferred maintenance. Those three sections tell you more about how the warranty actually functions than the headline "10-year" or "5-year" numbers do on their own.

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