This review is going to sound too good to be true, but when you are good, you are good! Mike has…read moreworked with me on various projects over the last 10+ years. He is the most knowledgeable and consistent designer I have ever worked with - and he is a nice guy to boot. I have recommended him to friends, co-workers and family - and they have given equally good feedback. Mike goes above and beyond when creating a design. His vast building and code knowledge helps him resolve the most difficult issues. I wouldn't hire anyone else. Thank you again Mike!!

Mike did excellent work for my remodel. He visited the property, created 3D views of design ideas,…read moredrew up the plans, arranged for the permits, and answered many many questions over the course of the project. His positive attitude and depth of knowledge of building codes made those sometimes challenging aspects much easier to navigate.

Peter is fantastic! Great work, conscientious and timely. Highly recommend! He's very reasonable in…read morecost and has attention to detail.

They were great to work with! Very responsive in our service requests for a full home remodel,…read moresetting up our initial meetings, were able to lay out the plans for our remodel, provided a timeline that they kept, and the work was high quality. Not to mention they walked us through our options, provided advice, were able to showcase their portfolio of work, which helped us choose them right away, plus were very competitive on pricing. I would highly recommend them for any general contracting or home remodeling in San Diego!

Our expectations when offering referrals are very high. I'm only going to refer my friends and…read morefamily to people whom I know and trust. Seth Larsen is one of those people. He's more about building relationships than structures, and he realizes that every project is about the customer and not him nor his company. Another great thing is that Stel studies the markets and understands where the return on investments are going to be in any particular area and type of project. I recommend Stel Builders for your remodeling project... 100%.

We were becoming totally frustrated in our search for an architect and a general contractor to…read moreguide an extensive remodel of our home. What we needed and seemingly could not find was an honest estimate of costs, an architect who could help us design our project and drive the permit process, and a contractor to build the project. Finally we happened upon STEL Builders. Cory, a walking advertisement for why you need to contract with STEL, jumped on our project and quickly gave us a realistic idea of costs. He introduced us to Frank, who is an awesome person and STEL's in-house architect. Frank gave us three options of drawings to choose from. Each option met our basic requirements and also outlined possible upgrades. Based on our budget, we committed to a plan. Within two months we had permits and construction began. We were assigned a dedicated project manager with whom we met weekly to assess progress in demo and ultimately new construction. Even before demo began, we met our design angel in Ivette. She guided us through selection of fixtures, cabinetry, tile, wall coverings, flooring; all the aspects of a remodel that keeps novices like us up at night. Her calm demeanor combined with her creative ideas made this an amazingly pleasurable experience! Ivette led us to our dream design outcome, and all within the budget we worked out with savant Cory in the beginning. STEL has great relationships with all the best subcontractors & receives priority on their projects, keeping the downtime in construction to a minimum. Midway through construction, our project manager left STEL. They hired a super pro replacement in Roberto. His many years of experience enabled us to stay on track for completion and enhanced the quality of the final product. Roberto is already a tremendous asset to STEL! And all along, even as he continued to take on new projects, Cory stayed in touch and treated us as if we were his only client. No question or inquiry we had was too small or insignificant for him to address nearly as quickly as it was expressed. We moved back into our home after six months and felt like every dream we had dreamt for our forever home had come true. The outcome has exceeded our very high expectations. In Cory's introduction, he touted STEL as a small, family oriented and local Design & Build Company. He was right about that. However, we think he understated how committed to these values Seth Larson and STEL Builders really are. They get it! For people like us, this is the largest and last big expenditure we'll ever make. They treated us with respect, congeniality, honesty and integrity. Our lives and our home from now on are forever enhanced from having met and worked with Cory, Frank, Ivette and Roberto. Thank you Seth Larson for the team you've built. Thank you STEL Builders, our new extended family!

I would recommend Latitude Pharma to anyone involved in formulations especially when dealing with…read morechallenging compounds. I have worked with Andew in the past and I came back because his team provided creative solutions, complete report and quick turnaround time for my studies.

From a design stand point, I found them unimaginative. And their business process/business ethics…read morenot transparent. After 1/2 hr initial meeting for full home redesign and ADU addition, Stewart Mayer insisted on walking off with printed drawings. Within days, in good faith I sent him electronic version to help him with design. Even though the other architects did not ask for drawings to take home in order to come up with some prelim costs. He came back with 2 scribbled ideas I shared with him from another architect. When asked if I could talk to some references, his response - "our policy with these requests is to facilitate those calls with the understanding from the potential client that they are prepared to retain our firm contingent upon a favorable conversation. Hopefully that is the case for you, and if so we'd be happy to put you in touch with one of our current clients who has been through design and permitting phases and is now under construction". Shocked someone would ask for that commitment after finding him on yelp. An experienced architect who has no previous references happy to share experience of his work? An architect who thinks asking for references if not a norm in the process? The process of vetting out architects could take months. He was insistent on needing my plans for redesign discussion purposes but he scribbled 2 ideas from another architect. Watch out this guy had no good ideas while taking plans to generate ideas. Violating copy right law is a federal offense. thank you Yelp for having a platform to share experiences

Esther YELP…read more SM-designbuild was referred to me by a friend that had great success working with Stew and his company on their home remodel. As a single woman I was a bit nervous about renovating my condo as I'd heard so many scary stories about how things can go wrong with contractors, but my experience with SM-designbuild was great. The design phase was fun and painless; they listened closely to my needs and came up with great ideas I hadn't even considered. They priced the project early on in the design phase and I was relieved to find that the initial estimate was very close to the final cost. The quality of their work was excellent and I'm happy to report that they finished the job ahead of schedule! You can't go wrong with SM-designbuild. I would use them again in a heart beat and would refer them to all my friends.

We got our new business signs from Sun Coast Sign Pros & they are beautiful!! Thanks Paul!!read more

About two years ago, I had them put up an aluminum sign for our business. It looked better than I…read moreimagined. Paul had great ideas and came up with a terrific design. I called them recently to also do our company vehicles. Those look terrific. I had contacted a few other companies, and it was always something I wasn't happy with (either the price, or the interaction with the person I was speaking with). The experience with Paul and Sun Coast -- was outstanding. Highly recommend.

We are very happy with the service that Winston Bodkin and his team provided. They are…read moreprofessional, communicative, and great to work with. They introduced us to a good general contractor whom we're happy with. If you need a project manager to walk alongside and provide professional support, liaison, and maneuvering the "building" minefield, CasitaADU is the one for you.

There are many reasons to work with Casita ADU Company. The most important ones in this business…read moreare, the integrity, reliability, and professionalism. I have been in this industry for over 16 years and have experienced many ADU companies, contractors, and services. I have not worked with or met an ADU company that truly listens and cares about their clients as much as Casita ADU. I've seen many of their projects and can confirm they are very professional with the details their clients are asking for. I'm extremely particular about referring clients to just anyone, and I know I can trust Casita ADU to take good care and treat my clients like they were family.

T7 Architecture was great to work with! Their architectural style was very compatible with…read moreours--contemporary with lots of clean lines and natural materials. We always enjoyed our meetings with them. They got excited about our ideas and inspirational pictures and designed spaces that reflected what we needed and wanted. They are also practical and let us know if something we liked might push the cost of our project up a lot. They have a strong understanding of building codes, and work very well with City staff. They also worked really well with our contractor, who appreciated that their plans were implementable. We found T7's services to be a great value and are very happy with how our addition turned out!

T7 was amazing to work with! Andrew Crocker and his team worked with us to make our house exactly…read morehow we envisioned. They are very responsive and helped throughout the project when we had questions. Highly recommended!