A Consultation firm owned by Mike Robare of Robare Custom homes, Principal Custom Homes, and poorly managed by Lee Randolph and his wife Lisa Randolph. Prior to signing on with them you are swooned and promised help with the budget, contractors, etc. Once you sign up and give the initial deposit the swooning stops. The process is run by a bunch of former builders, and if one took time to think about I would speculate if these are such great builders why are they not building themselves during the busiest new home construction era. Our budget is done by Virgil Seidel a former builder as well. Virgil doesn't have the skillset to accurately budget these type of projects and the attitude that he does. At the time of this writing we are thirty thousand over budget, and when speaking with Lee Randolph the manager he chose to side with Virgil Seidel, and the office workers over the actual numbers and clients.
We haven't done anything not in the site plan, or in the plans in general that would cause such an error. After pushing back with Lee I was able to speak with Mike Robare owner of the Ubuild it franchise, Robare Custom Homes, and Principal custom Homes, who ultimately sided with Virgil Seidel and informed us that his employee was not off and that the items listed were allowances even though Ron Belmares the project site consultant and others involved stated that he was . Mike Stated stated that I need to read the contract and they are not responsible for budget errors or really anything associated with the building. Mike Robare has a confrontational temper probably stemming back from his arrest for Assault on a Family Member. So if you need to have rock trenching done Virgil Seidel will budget $1250 for 600ft when everyone else charges $ 7800-10k, and then say you don't know what you're talking about. The plans call for a wood look insulated garage door Virgil Seidel will get a quote and budget of $1400 steel door when the door in the Plan is over $3500. The plans called for Sola Tubes, and are in the plan Virgil Seidel left them out, and we're on the hook for $4,020. The driveway was quoted $3700 and cost $12,000. There are a number of other errors with regard to the budget, and I was told that this is a constant issue for them. You'll never know though because you cant review the bids before getting the loan or financing in order despite them stating you can.
Once we began construction we had many issues with the quality of work, and if you aren't one to push back you will get run over and given the runaround. The framer Rolando Martinez with RJ Construction took over 11 weeks and had to be terminated, he used a crew of 3 guys so incompetent that had us we retain and utilize a structural engineer to come out and inspect. Upon inspecting we learned that the way he constructed the home could have many failures. The framer Rolando Martinez with R&J Construction stated he works for Robare Custom Homes, and this was the way they did it for them, but he would correct the many issues that the engineer pointed out. We allowed him to continue only to discover he was correcting the issues incorrectly. At that point, we terminated him and hired a framer who came in and rectified the situation and got us back on track. The Cornice crew from R & J Construction that installed the windows installed them incorrectly, and we had to have them reinstalled and adjusted by the Pella installer. The plumber we hired seemed like a nice enough guy, but subbed out all of the top out construction, and had to come out numerous times to correct and add many missing items. It seems as though that's a trend with the contractors used with the Ubuild it process. The stone and stucco contractor Joel Espinosa with Espinosa Masonry was paid to do the stone and stucco, and failed to pay his Masonry supplier who then placed a lien on the property. If choosing to use this company you need to get lean releases from all of their subs, and suppliers as most of the "vetted" contractors don't actually do any of the work themselves. Mike and Lee ultimately took care of the lien from the stucco contractor, but only after mentioning the threat of legal action and speaking to Mike Robare of Robare Custom Homes about his Family violence assault. I could never get a hold of the recommended drywall installer, the recommended painter, and many other contractors. I've noticed that Lee or someone with Ubuildit will reply to reviews and attempt to discount whats said here, but the facts are facts. If you use their contractors that "love" working with Ubuild it prepare to lower your quality standards unless you can push back, or have a contingency contractor to use, It is a constant battle to have them bring a quality product, show up for a full day or at all. If given the choice to build with Mike Robare owner of Robare Custom Homes and Ubuild it, and principal custom homes along with Lee and Lisa Randolph I would take a hard pass read more
