Forget what you might expect from an average contractor...low ball or excessive bids, unexpected…read morechange orders, no shows, pulling out of the job in the middle of critical stages, lack of responsiveness.
Jonathan from Mayan Home Builders is 100% exactly the OPPOSITE of any of that. He is awesome, and if you are looking for a contractor to hire, you should hire Jonathan and you will NOT be disappointed. In fact, you'll be thrilled, like we are.
We did a very extensive remodel of our kitchen, family room, master bathroom, guest bathroom, and living room, stairways and rails, replacing most windows and old-school sliders, and replacing the front door. Many drop ceilings were removed, and load bearing walls were removed, involving footings and beams in several areas. All flooring was replaced. Essentially, about 1,700 square feet of space was basically gutted to the sticks on the inside. This transformed our 1970's closed plan home, to a modern, open floor plan design.
Jonathan is extremely patient, helpful, and far beyond what can be called responsive (I mean like responding immediately to questions or concerns). He also knows his stuff. He has a great eye for design, and in countless decisions he was a great counselor and had great suggestions for us.
His pricing wasn't bargain basement, and it wasn't excessive. It was fair, transparent, understandable and clear, and most importantly...reasonable. And trust me, reasonable is good..you don't want to go bargain basement. I feel like we got a high quality build for reasonable prices.
We ended up having some latent plumbing and sewer problems, completely unrelated to Jonathan, and we had to replace and redo our plumbing and sewer system. That was fun, and expensive. But it's just as another illustration of Jonathan's flexibility and desire to do things right, we actually have a friend who is a plumber who did the replumbing and re-sewering, and Jonathan got to know him (he had never worked with him before and worked will with our plumber and both were extremely professional. Some contractors like only to have their own subs do the work, and don't like to work with other builders, but this made sense for us to use our plumber, and Jonathan was cooperative and made it easy and worked well with our plumber.
There WERE many change orders, but they were driven by us deciding to increase the scope and do more things as we got into it. This is a testament to Jonathan's work, because we felt comfortable with him, and knew he was honest, increased the scope because we knew he would be honest and reasonable on the pricing of change orders/added scope (he was very much so) and we saw the quality of the work.
There was one change order that was not driven by us, it was driven by the city, who required more extensive footings. However, I cannot complain, because Jonathan had warned up front that could be a possibility,
And most importantly, we are thrilled with the results. The quality is high
Again, I cannot give enough kudos to Jonathan.
He is what all contractors should aspire to be.