Fazzolari Custom Homes & Renovations

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Avoid this guy at all cost. He will try to sell you on Clark County Contractor of the year, but he is the worst Contractor we have used. I ended up managing the majority of the project myself.

Check with the WA Labor and Industries to verify- as of today he has $65,000 in filings against his $12,000 bond.

He does not take responsibility for his mistakes and backs his subs and suppliers over the customer. Our 3 month project took 7 months with no change orders. He screwed just about everything up.

He ended up paying himself first and when we withheld funds to get him to finish the job he didn't pay subs who threatened to lien. 

This guy is a total train wreck - to be avoided at all cost.
I would not let him build a stupid dog house.
We now believe he has never built a single house from scratch before.
We have pics and dates on everything - tons of factual documentation.
Even our lawyers are amazed at this moron's stupid behavior.
He may have a six figure lawsuit headed for his throat.
There are lots of great honest skilled contractors out there that kill
themselves to do a great job for you. This is NOT one of them.
Too much more to say here...

Do get bids from several reputable companies:  We did.  Check references with your friends and with others that the company has worked for.  We know several general contractors and spoke with them about Fazzolari.   Define carefully the scope of work.  Do make sure the subs that the contractor uses are highly rated too. Do have a contract.  Do not pay for the work until completed.

The company did the as built plans in a timely fashion - they took 11.5 hours to measure up a 2,600sq ft space. However, we subsequently found that they had not included all of the measures on the plan. When I questioned them on this they replied: "We typically do not take the time to add measurements to the as-builts because most of that will be modified or removed. And it is a separate process and layer than the actual drawing."  The company did come up with two additional plans in a CAD system. The plans were OK and did help us think about what we needed and what might be done with the space. Despite repeated requests these plans have not yet been provided to us in the CAD file format for us to possibly use with other builders - just as .pdfs. We were charged for a total of 18 hours.  At the beginning of the process we told Fazzolari our budget range. In the end the work required far exceeded the budget we set out. It exceeded the budget by enough that an experienced builder or architect could have explained this before we spent $900 with them. By comparison we later walked the site with an architect who was able to give us a very good idea in a one hour meeting (for which we paid) what it would take to remodel.  After we asked Fazzolari to stop spending time on this project we still had a number of questions. The company was extremely slow in responding to these quesions and, as stated above, we still have not had adequate responses on all of them.