My HOA contracted this company to repair the plumbing in our condo buildings. The owner, Sergio, is unprofessional and dishonest. I can't comment on the quality of their work, as the job is still underway. However, Sergio and his crew hopped a wall and trespassed onto our patio. They told me they needed to dig up our patio (admittedly currently not landscaped and just a big dirt patch) to "get to the pipes below." Since it's just dirt, I let them proceed, even though I wasn't ok with the trespassing and unannounced visit. I thought they would fix the pipes that were broken and put the dirt back. What Sergio didn't tell me (and I think he deliberately tried to mislead me), is they were planning on leaving a sewer cleanout port on my patio.
Imagine my surprise when I found the cement cover reading "sewer" in my yard after his crew left. I most certainly DID NOT give my permission for them to do that--the HOA does not own my patio and all other access ports are located in common areas. When I spoke to Sergio the next day, he actually lied right to me and told me there was NO other place to situate the port. (Funny, now that I've raised a stink with the HOA it's going to be moved on Monday.) Then he tried to scare me by telling me he could remove it, but if he did my condo and the building would surely be flooded with sewer backflow at any minute. When I called him out for his unprofessional behavior and told him he could not alter my property in such a way without my express written permission and told him how inappropriate it was, he tried to make me feel guilty by stating, "it's for the good of the whole building."
Look, it's just a patch of dirt right now (I have young kids and landscaping isn't a priority). But that doesn't mean he gets to make the call about what happens on my property. I'm sure they decided it would be easier to dig up some dirt than to lay pipe and do other hard work in order to locate it in a common area. I'm furious he tried to pull one over on me and decrease my property value just because it was easier for his crew. And I cannot believe his complete lack of personal responsibility--he was completely unapologetic when I confronted him about the situation. read more