A neighborhood of $400,000 houses is not where you expect to hear complaints of an eyesore but that's what Six on Your Side is hearing on the western edge of Douglas County.

Quail Ridge homeowners are upset.

Victoria Robbins says, "First comment any neighbors or visitors who come to see us say -- 'what is that at the top of the hill?'"

It's an energy-efficient, $390,000 house designed by a Calfornia architect for Jack Round and his family. It was scheduled to be completed by May 2007 but neighbors say all they see is a house that still isn't finished. The driveway is rock, sidewalks are plywood and the yard is overgrown with weeds.

Mary Scholser says the mud washes downhill into her yard.

"He doesn't have grass," she says. "All he has is weeds."

Mr. Round blames delays on rain, a slow subcontractor and foot-dragging by the former Elkhorn building inspections department.

Round says his custom house is complete and hopes to have the landscape finished in a couple of weeks. He says a letter from the homeowners association a month ago was the first he had heard of neighbors' complaints.

Neighbor Robin Nelson says, "He shouldn't need somebody to tell him to go out, spray the weeds, pull the weeds, you know, get rid of the plywood, clean up his place."

Clean-up and completion took a step forward on Thursday with the first day of work for a concrete crew on the driveway and sidewalk. Sidewalk contractor Paul Housler says the finished project will be impressive.

"It's really neat and I think it will add a whole lot of value to the neighbors' properties," he said.

Jane Werner says, "This is a very friendly neighborhood and we just hate to have this kind of relationship develop with one of our neighbors."

Jack Round says that an Omaha city inspector gave him permission to move in eight months ago but city records don't show a final inspection on the home and Omaha's chief building inspector is investigating why.

In the meantime, the homeowner says he will provide a completion timetable at the next neighborhood meeting.