Accord Construction

I usually love to only write good reviews. But at times certain company’s actions and its owners make me want to notify the public so that this doesn’t happen to them. My company recently found this company of Mr. Eddie Rafii online since he had wonderful pictures of stairs and home remodeling. We met with this person and he was very nice and all smiles at first. Gave us a low bid on a complete stairs remodel contract ask for a $ 1000 deposit from us. Everything was okay up until that point. We later found out Eddie Rafii was on a suspended license when he contracted with us on Feb 8^th, 2014 and he NEVER showed up to the property to do any work? We would call him and he would always say he’s busy and we finally forced him to meet w us at the supply company to see what our metal balusters would be put in. This person would tell us one week later he would order materials that same day. 2 days later called the metal company and they even signed an affidavit stating this guy has not ordered any parts or materials?! We then called and emailed to cancel our contract so that we could find a more competent and on time contractor and this Eddie Rafii would threaten to show up at our place and to sue us?! Now I know somewhere along the lines this does not sound right especially since we have a 1 yr old baby and we needed the work done within two weeks timeframe. We then looked up the laws and found out Contractors who do not have Active license per California law during the whole time cannot even sue, and on top of this he wanted to threaten by coming to our place knowing we have a baby girl. Mind you, this was after we started calling him to see why he has not began work after a weeks timeframe and when he never started any work we emailed and called him to cancel. This Eddie Rafii would only pick up phone calls when he wanted to and pretended to not remember what we talked about nor what he promised. Thank goodness we have documents and can show all of his contract violations including demanding more than the 10% deposit law. But what’s sucks is it’s now costing us more time and money to have to find another Contractor to finish the job and this guy would not return our deposit?! So now we have to go the legal route and try and get our money back. It’s already stressful having to do remodeling on a set timeframe and budget. Hopefully, who ever reads this will not be scammed like we were and always always get personal referrals and background information on the contractor before giving any money or allowing him access to your property.