RE Renovations

Stay away from this place! I have been a contractor for 17 years and did some sub contracting for this company! They are unorganized, unprofessional and lack communication! I have been in business for years and this is the worst remodeling company I have ever seen! I did a kitchen remodel and they told the homeowner they were getting the mid grade cabinets. I was embarrassed to install them! They were not even wood! They were constructed from particle board and MDF!!! Total garbage just like RE Renovations! The home owner asked me if they were good cabinets and i said they were ok but not the best ive seen. I felt like a liar! I should have told him they were crap! Gary Fralick who coordinates these projects didn’t even have the correct plans for the project. The guy is so incompetent i don’t think he could hold down a job cleaning tables at McDonald’s! He even ordered the wrong doors for the project! He is such an idiot he doesn’t know a left hand swing from right! I don’t know how people like this can even survive in this world!

OMG DO NOT… I repeat DO NOT get into business with this company. This company deserves ZERO stars! Dan Bettancourt is a real piece of work. We hired these guys at the recommendation of a 203k consultant we hired which we later found out gets kicks backs from this company for referring clients but that’s another story for another day. We live in the city of Pleasant Hill where RE does a lot of flips. The city inspector told me RE is on his crap list because of the sub par work they do and the corners they cut! YES we caught them cutting corners!
ONLY after the contract was signed and filed with our lender did Dave Brady tell me I was not his boss and that my $ 130k budget did not authorize me to ask detailed questions about my home renovation, nor to speak to any of the onsight subcontractors. He went so far as to pull me aside and ask me to not watch his guys work. The subcontractor foreman told his guys to put up plywood to prevent me from seeing what they are doing. This was of course until our lender set him straight. My lender said we are ABSOLUTELY the boss and that we needed to manage the work and the workers accordingly. MY HOUSE, MY MONEY! Meaning… when I spy a couple of subcontractors busting windows in my yard for fun I needed to put a stop to it. We found a slice of half eaten pizza under our dishwasher. Our project was supposed to be completed in 3 – 4 mos and it’s taken 10! It’s been less than 6 months and we already have a severe crack in one wall which suggests structural issues. We found them cutting mulitple corners and even suffered major property damage loss… almost $ 10k worth. Dan laughed in our faces and never apologized for any of the mishaps. He literally laughed in my face. RE even tried dipping into our contingency budget submitting false invoices… this is fraud!
If you want to live in peace knowing the home remodel you’ve just completed was done right you will go to another contractor.

This is another example of a group of people (I can’t justify calling these crooks a business) who deserve zero stars. They contract people to do work outside of their area of expertise and then don’t pay them. Dan Bettencourt, you should be ashamed. Taking advantage of people is no way to go through life.
Odd that this needs to be explained to an adult.

Why doesn’t Unilocal allow zero stars?! Lol. And why do contractors like this think ignoring everyone w/​o returning calls constitutes resolution. I’m a neighbor of a Re Renovations project. I’m writing this review because me, and other neighbors bordering their «re-​renovation» have had horrible experiences, including property damage. We’ve all been inconvenienced continuously by them and their subcontractors. They are never aware of what’s going on and employ terrible subcontractors. Their project at the above address has been under construction nearly 8 months, only 6 if you include the subcontractor who walked off the job on them. (Obviously they aren’t good at fixing and flipping & have financing issues.)
My neighbors problems w/​this company: Multiple contractors & subs have walked away from the project leaving a huge mess of construction debris and an ugly house in our neighborhood.
They leave garbage, trash, food waste, beer bottles, cigarettes all over the front yard (including when all their subs walked off the job for several months). Their mess works it’s way into the street and all our houses and front yards.
Drove a tractor on my front yard. Dumped cement truck tailings into my yard and the street gutters.
Subcontractor had a semi delivering sod last Wednesday morning at 5:30 AM. The fork lift proceeded to unload the entire truck with back up alarm going off and hazard lights flashing. Apparently others in the neighborhood were woken up because because the police were out there too.
My problems w/​this company: Ran into my brand new fence with a tractor twice w/​in same week and w/​in the same month it was installed. Damage was so bad I didn’t allow them to «re-​renovate» it the 2^nd time.
Today me and another neighbor had severe flooding caused by this inept company. My entire back yard was 6″+ deep in water, up to my back door and I also have water standing against the foundation in my side yard. This company «forgot» to install drainage and installed the rain gutter down spouts pointing into both the side neighbors yards. There’s standing water on both side yards of their clients, and our future neighbors, while the back courtyard is entirely under water. The other neighbor has a river into their side/​backyard and across their driveway. It was caused by this company placing 12″ deep mulch piled against his fence and front yard sod on soil that’s been built up 12″ above previous grade. The City states their plans show drainage. Plans and reality are two different things. It’s been over 48 hrs since these flooding issues and nobody has contacted me. My other neighbor states he and his wife have also been ignored w/​this issue and the issue of there their fence also falling over when broken concrete was piled against it.
These guys also run a RE Carpet Inc out of Clayton. I’m interested to hear how bad they can mess up carpet. Lol.

As a follow-​up to my review earlier this year. The job was finally completed and I paid the balance exactly one year to the day that I paid the deposit for a «4−6 week» job.
At the end Gary was begging for dollars for all the extra, «unforseen» details of the job and their own inedptitude. I did weaken some for a couple of items that even I could see were unforseen, but still regret even bugging that much.
Do not use this company.

Wish I had read the reviews before I ever got involved with them.
The others said it better than me; just don’t use them.

Save yourself some time and energy and give someone else your business. Clyde is a salesman who fails to follow up. Really arrogant and inconsiderate of the clients time and needs. RE renovations was engaged to take care of our small job on a Tuesday and showed up finally on Thursday only to leave the job incomplete, with a promise to complete the job the next morning at 7 am. 1:30 pm rolls around and he’s ready to work! Forget about trying to reach him; his phone seems to work only when he’s dialing out. This guy completely missed out on customer service. If you are looking for someone who will blow smoke and play you, call this guy. If you are interested in being jerked around, call this guy. If you are looking for a professional who will deliver, DON’T call this guy. Thank goodness our job was small enough to find someone to get right in and get things done on time when RE Renovations failed.