What a great company to hire. So professional, great/fair pricing, quality work, and accommodating…read moreand in every way. We had an addition put on our house and Lance was a great find! He and his crew were all of the aforementioned. They constantly went above and beyond our expectations and his recommendations for other trades were spot on. I will use him again and recommend him to anyone doing any type of building. Great guy/ great work, fast, Knowledgeable and constantly with the level out to make everything precise.

From the owner: Northern Mitten Building is a carpentry based family business from the Otsego county area. We have…read morebeen in the trade for going on 10 years. We deal with everything from cleaning gutters and scraping snow off roofs to framing additions and shingling roofs. Whatever your around the house needs are you can call us. We will match any competitors estimate. Don’t get the contractor that says “looks good from my house” Call now for your FREE estimate. “

They never were able to make the scheduled time for the estimate. They never ended up reschedulingread more

From the owner: Aro Construction LLC is a construction company based in Northern Michigan we offer a variety of…read moreservices we take pride in what we do and always leave with a happy customer

Never been treated so poorly by a company in my life! Our nightmare started with this company on…read moreApril 23th and ended today, August 13th, with us still not having all of our cabinets. The owner and staff are nasty people. I drove 45 miles today to pick up our final cabinet (because they refused to deliver it after 3 previous replacements were delivered damaged), and it was again damaged. When I attempted to get the owner, Andy Driver, over to look at the damage, he told me "get the fuck out and never come back". I am a firefighter that just got off a 48 hour shift, and went out of my way to pick up this cabinet. This owner, Andy Driver, called me "a dick" and "a douchebag" multiple times today. Eve, the manager, told me to "Sshhh" and started smiling and saying "Bye Bye Unreasonable Steve". I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to receive cabinets that aren't damaged in a timely manner. We are not rich people, as my wife is a teacher and I am a firefighter. Every penny spent is a lot of money to us. In difficult situations like this, we choose to speak to the managers and owners to give them opportunities to make things right. Nobody in this company was willing to listen to us, or take steps to correct this situation in a professional manner. The name calling, cursing, abusive behavior by the owner and staff, and not giving us an acceptable product was horrible. They treated me like I wasn't a human being, didn't fulfill the contract for the full list of cabinets purchased, and didn't uphold their promise of quality products. Full story timeline: 4/23 - We ordered the cabinets from Amy Sue. We were told they would be delivered 5/13. 5/4 - Amy Sue texted, said cabinets will be delayed to 5/28 - there is nothing they can do. 5/4 - I asked her to reach out to Merillat the manufacturing company and asked her to explain our situation. 5/5 - Talked with Amy Sue on phone and she advises Manufacturer says yes we can move that back up to 5/18 delivery date to us. 5/7 - Texted Amy Sue to get in writing the new delivery schedule, because an email came through with different dates than what she advised on the phone. Amy advises she would just cancel our order and that she would not discuss this anymore. Her manager Eve told me that I had control issues. 5/18 - Called to speak with manager because it should have shipped on 5/14 and it didn't arrive by expected date. Eve called me ridiculous and said the owner refused to speak to me. She said if we were unhappy she would cancel our order. 5/19 - Cabinets deliver and one is damaged. Also, toe kicks were completely missing. Advised Amy Sue and she orders a new one and said she would look into our toe kicks. Our contractor asked that we set the delivery date of the new next one when he is here. We explained this to Amy Sue multiple times and in writing in emails. 6/24 - replacement cabinet delivered - Again damaged. 7/15 - Amy Sue emails next replacement cabinet is in and we advise back we will reach out with a delivery date for our contractor to be here. Amy Sue asked that we reach out before her vacation the following week. I said no problem and we would get the delivery date to her. 7/16 - Cabinet was left on the front porch, luckily my wife was walking out to get my dogs and was able to stop the driver to refuse delivery. AGAIN, this cabinet was damaged. 7/21 - Another replacement cabinet was ordered. They advised they would NOT deliver another cabinet to us and they would NOT let us leave the facility until final payment is made. Mind you we are paid in full except for $500 from 5/19! 8/5 - Amy Sue advises cabinet arrived and there are no defects. 8/13 - I arrive to Advance Electric in Gaylord to inspect and AGAIN the cabinet is damaged!!!! The owner, Andy Driver, starts swearing and being aggressive towards me. Calls me "a dick" and "douchebag" multiple times. I am FORCED to pay $400 as our final payment and leave without our order being completed because we didn't want them to mess with our credit, or ever have to return to that place for that kind of abuse again. 4 MONTHS of complete hell with these people and we still have a damaged cabinet (pictures below). Horrible company, horrible employees, and a disgusting human of an owner.

They are rude, nasty and don't back damaged cabinet. Owner cursed and called nasty names. So it's…read moreno wonder staff and manager are just and incompetent as the owner.

Worst experience ever, that began SIX MONTHS AGO. Over and over again,…read moreno shows and excuses (my favorite had to be " it's too nice out to come today") . When he finally arrived to start the job ( a month after he said he would) he didn't measure correctly, installed a shower too small for the original space, then wanted more money to make it look even halfway decent. At this point, I had already invested time and money, and naively believed he would do the job as he promised, and didn't think anyone else would want to take on a project started ( slowly and poorly) by someone else. This man accused me of " messing with the plumbing" when we still had a leak each time he actually showed up to work. If I knew how to " mess with plumbing " I wouldn't need someone to come in and fix it! The shower head ( that he chose) sprayed water everywhere, including outside the shower... he said I would have to order a new one ( he said he couldn't take the one back THAT I JUST BOUGHT ) and sent me a link to it on Amazon. I ordered it, it came a day later than expected, he then messaged me, and threatened to take me to court. We settled via mediation, with the agreement that he would finish the job, and guarantee his work for a year. The leak FINALLY seemed to be resolved ( he claimed that he must have gotten a "bad batch" of slip drains, as another customer also had a leak that he couldn't figure out ( must be someone else messing with their plumbing) . But because he promised me after mediation to " make things right" , I believed him. He strung me along, and I kept thinking that he would finally just finish the job, even though every time I talked to him, and tried to solidify a completion date, it was a higher amount. I ended up having to hire someone else.

Just overall disappointing how things got done. Delay after delay. Never a legit reason why.read more