RCS Builders Inc.

RCS builders helped us with a remodel of our kitchen and two bathrooms. Art did a great job and was really helpful even coming with us to pick out the materials and walking us through the different options. I would definitely use him again!

RCS Builders remodeled our old 1930s kitchen layout into a beautiful open floor plan with new floors, cabinets, appliances, and vaulted ceilings. Art and his team were communicative and efficient and our remodel was completed earlier than expected (thankfully, since we had a 6 month old baby during this!) and the site was always cleaned up at the end of the day. Our kitchen turned out beautifully and we had absolutely no complaints. Highly recommend using Art and RCS.

On July 9, 2013 RCS Builders (Art Anchondo) made a verbal agreement with us to do a repair in a commercial property we own in Campbell, CA. For business reasons, it was very important to have that repair done in the summer. This was our first experience ever with GCs and he promised to make everything easy an clear. The first bad sign was that despite several requests to put the agreement in writing, he kept postponing. in good faith, we proceeded along his suggestions to immediately have him get plans and permits while waiting for the contract in writing. Every time we would ask he was telling us "I will do it tonight or tomorrow". On July 25th, he told us that permits are ready and he is ready to start working on site. I told him that unless he puts the contract in place in writing we cannot start. Finally a week later at 12:30AM he sent an excel spreadsheet. The verbal agreement was $35K-$45K, to our amazement the contract in writing was for $62,000. Somehow, this was just a few hours before our summer vacation, that he was well aware of. The next week, while on holiday we tried over e-mail and phone communication to have him explain but he would not. I finally concluded that this was his tactic to win the business first low bidding and then trap us since we had already spent all this time and needed the project done in the summer. He refused to lower the price to what we had agreed or to $50K that I counter offered and abandoned the project blaming us for the fall out. Then he asked for incurred expenses. He had been paid 50% of those but he wanted the whole amount letting us shoulder all the expenses of the fallout. I told him that I will pay him the remainder, only if I can use such work to complete the project. He abruptly stopped talking to us and a month later he sued in small claims court for $2,500. He refused every request to communicate and settle the case out of court, and did not even show up in the first trial, further wasting our time. Then he sued again, but came unprepared and the trial would have been postponed. Fortunately, the judge "forced" him to talk to us and we settled for a smaller amount to stop wasting our time.