***Beware if this company***
I don't like to leave bad reviews for people or companies as a rule.
I feel however that this company's lack of professionalism and poor service must be out there.
Contacted this company after my parents home was damaged from the recent fires in Malibu.
They sent out a rep named Paul Shortino.
Paul is a very nice guy and I met him along with several other contractors, when they came to meet with my elderly father and inspect the house to create bids and estimates for my parent's insurance claim.
I spent over an hour walking them around and showing them the various issues for example the smoke damage, carpets, HVAC etc.
Paul explained that he would need to come back for a follow up in order to take "exact measurements" so that he could enter it into his computer program to generate the estimates and quotes to provide the insurance company.
I agreed to meet with him the following week wanting to expedite this as soon as possible.
The following week I met with Paul and proceeded to spend another 4 hours at least measuring every single room of the house. And after it was completed Paul (who I will say again was a really nice guy and seemed to know what he was doing told me he'd have a estimate the following week.
Now this is where things went bad....
The next week came and went and no quote or estimate came. Next, the holiday's (Xmas) came and I could understand that it might have to wait.
After the holidays still no estimate, and when I contacted Paul by the cell phone he provided me not response.
Finally, after a week he let me know that he was gravely sick and could not provide the estimate but would contact me when he felt better.
Another week and nothing. Another week nothing.
Finally today I contacted the company asking if Paul was the only employee that could provide me with an estimate and they responded that "it will take to long to create the estimate so they cannot."
So, I waited over 6 weeks, spent over 5-6 hours of my time measuring and showing them the house and work to be done to never get a response and then be told they cannot provide an estimate because it would take them to long!!!!
This was so unbelievable and laughable I actually had to have them repeat what they were saying on the phone because I've never heard of such a thing. The job to provide a quote was too much work for them.
Yet somehow, 911 Restoration, Unique Restoration and others were able to do it.
What really is irritating and disappointing is the total lack of communication and professionalism on the company's part. If their guy Paul was to sick to follow up with a perspective client why not have another person do it?
Or even better if you don't want the job or you're too lazy and unprofessional to even provide a estimate why not at least communicate that and not hold up something so serious as fire restoration, clean up and repair.
This company is not to be taken seriously. There are many others out there and I recommend you skip this one if you don't want to waste your time as I have.
Basic courtesy doesn't exist with them.
Professionalism doesn't exist.
Like is said at the beginning I don't like leaving bad reviews usually, because any service or product can have a bad day it make a mistake and I fell like it's unfair sometimes. However, when you are not professional and don't exhibit even a modicum of basic courtesy, respect for other people's time and are rude, then that is when I am grateful for services like yelp so others may not suffer the same as those before them.
This wasn't a bad incident or special circumstance. This was and could have been handled differently at so many points.
On the flip side of looking at it I'm grateful they showed such terrible customer service before they were hired or paid so maybe they did me a favor.
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