ROBERTSON READY MIX

Like other posts I've seen here and on other sites, Robertson's sent us a preliminary lien notice - which I found out is a new Cali law - saying they would place a lien on our home if they didn't receive payment  from PVM Pavers by a certain date. Like many people, we didn't know about this new law and were pretty freaked out when we received the letter. I got on the phone immediately with them to find out what was going on and was informed that Robertson's sends out those letters on the very first day they are eligible to go out. Roberston's also assured me that they'd never had any payment problems with PVM, whose account pays up at the end of each month, but the letter is standard practice for their company. And they agreed to send us another letter once payment was received, so just before the due date, I checked back with both companies to make sure that payment was set to go through on time. It was.
After doing research into this law, I found out this is a legal practice now and is in place so homeowners get a heads-up whenever any construction company isn't paying their subcontractor bills. This way we homeowners can protect ourselves and avoid any liens on our homes.
You can read about the law here - http://www.cslb.ca.gov/GeneralInformation/Newsroom/PressReleases/PressReleases2012/News20120629.asp
Outcome: PVM paid their bill on time, we received the letter from Robinson's clearing our home from any lien threats, and all is well. Looking back, we're grateful we got that heads-up in the original preliminary letter. Now we know what to expect and what to look for with any contractor companies we hire in the future.

The initial contact and work done by Robertson's seemed great.  The employee was nice and seemed to take pride in his work (washing his truck and equipment).  Even the "quality issue" was going well until they stopped talking to us.  We just want this fixed and we can't work towards that until they open communications, again.

I paid my contractor on time, but I gather he did not pay Robertson's on time.

They put a lien against my property without ever contacting me about the bill my contractor was late in paying. (No fault of mine--I paid my contractor!)  The first thing I ever received from them was a notice of the lien, and they didn't even include a phone number to contact them.  They just told me to get a lawyer bc they were going to start foreclosing on my house.  Unbelievable!

I finally got it cleared up, but lost a lot of sleep in the interim.

I would never do business with them again.

I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THE WORK THEY PERFORMED FOR US AT OUR HOUSE, THEY WERE QUICK WITH WHAT THEY HAD TO DO AND DID NOT MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE SO AS NOT TO DISTURB ANY OF THE NEIGHBORS.