I am an internationally-published and award-winning architect with over 1,800 diverse projects to my credit nationwide. At best, MLA Builders has built three small residential remodels. Against my better judgment and at my wife's insistence to save money, we had the EXTREME misfortune of wiring this fraudulent construction company. Yes, you absolutely DO get what you pay for -- unless you get far LESS than what you paid for! This guy in an incompetent boob and should NEVER be considered to build so much as a mail box. He ruined our foundation by allowing the forms to blow out, and never once even mentioned the error to me. RESULT: ponding in our floor slab, which now six months later he has STILL failed to correct.
This moron second-guessed my engineer's roof framing design, which showed tapered joists, and instead told his crew of brain-dead workers (any framer worth his salt would have told his boss that he is a dummy) to slope the WALL framing! RESULT: The walls had to be re-framed. costing us critical time.
He made at least 4 attempts to build an exterior stair, failing each time, with his hackish final effort failing miserably to meet code and creating a hazardous condition which risks the safety of anyone who uses it. RESULT: The stair has to be torn down and rebuilt at our expense, which this idiot will be back charged for.
MLA's crew has damaged our existing fence, marred the paint on our house and has scratched our BRAND NEW french doors. At their stupid boss's "direction," which has been almost non-existent, they have consistently left trash everywhere, they have failed to protect ANY work-in-place, and they show up maybe 2 days out of the week -- at MOST. RESULT: We are dealing with their uninformed attorney,instead of these guys just honoring their contract and doing their jobs.
This dork called ME a "racist prick" - I have been married to a lovely Mexican woman for 35 years, and half my family is Hispanic - for simply conveying a message from our Building Inspector who was frustrated that not only did Angel the Moron fail to show up for his own scheduled inspection, but he also left a phone number with a voice mail greeting in Spanish -- which the Inspector complained about. How that makes ME racist is a great mystery -- because it DOESN'T.
This stooge set a schedule of 2 months for construction -- and is now 5 MONTHS LATE! RESULT: We are filing suit against him, we are filing a claim against his bond, and we are filing a formal complaint with the Contractor's State License Board.
DO NOT HIRE MLA BUILDERS FOR ANY CONSTRUCTION WORK. They have no money and will ask you to pay them up front at every stage of "construction."
They are incompetent hacks, their "President" is inexperienced, lazy and completely lacking in construction, code or industry regulations and standard practices. They either will not finish your job, they will ruin it OR BOTH. read more