Green O Construction

WARNING. DO NOT HIRE.
Awful. My experience was similar to Phil N.‘s
Gabriel Horta of Green O Construction is a very poor communicator. He agreed to evaluate my project on a Saturday morning and was a no-​show. I followed up on Tuesday — he’d just forgotten (despite initially reaching out to ME when I put the project up for bid on Thumbtack).
His bid was good and he offered to start the next day. The moment I accepted the bid (and called off the other offers), he pushed the start date back by 4 days.
He was consistently late to start. Never called or texted to let us know he would be running late (BY SEVERAL HOURS).
But worst of all: horrible, shoddy work. Gabriel and the Green O team should not be in business. It was a simple and straightforward drywall repair + paint. He repaired the drywall just fine. We asked him to match the original paint in the room — he took a sample, had it «matched» then returned with a completely different color. Worse, he painted 75% of the room before we had a chance to see that it was the WRONG COLOR. When we complained, he said it wasn’t his problem that Home Depot didn’t match the paint properly.
He made us pay for the additional paint then for him and his workers to repaint the wall the following day (we went to HD with a paint chip of our own and they matched the color perfectly — go figure!). His workers left a mess, used our bathroom to clean their paint supplies and threw their garbage in the compost bin. A bunch of slobs.
WARNING. DO NOT HIRE.

I rarely leave one star reviews but the service from this business is ridiculously terrible and what made it even worse is that it was a referral from a good neighbor.
Called Green O Construction for a quote and right off the bat I had to call several times. I Googled the business and found they had a Facebook page so I went on there to post a message saying I would like someone to come out to my parents house and give us a quote on some major home repairs (I am in San Jose, CA and because there is a language barrier, my parents sought my assistance). Anyways, it should have been a clear red flag from the get go that I had to make x amount of calls and a post on their Facebook page that they would eventually contact me after two days. I gave them the biggest benefit of the doubt because they said they were extremely busy… until another second red flag.
On the day of the appointment scheduled for noon, my parents had notified me that they didn’t show up and since they had to run to a doctor’s appointment, they themselves called Green O to ask if they are coming anytime soon. According to my parents, who are the nicest and most honest people, Green O said they were having a late lunch and wouldn’t be able to make it until 4pm. That’s all fine and dandy if Green O Construction had just called to inform either one of us of the delay. We understand things change so just give us a heads up. Nope. Nada. Should I have stop giving them a chance after the second red flag? Noooooo. Actually my parents wanted to give them more business because he was a referral from their neighbor. Why? Because again, they are the nicest and most patient people and put up with shit like this from business like these. Well, at least they came out and we’re going to get the estimate. Done deal, right?
Nope. Can you believe there is a third and final red flag? Called Green O several times AGAIN to inquire when the estimate will arrive and again NO RESPONSE! Again, posted on their Facebook page a disgruntled message and again no response. After three days, Gabe I believe was his name, finally picked up the phone and said he will have the estimate for me same day by noon. Faith restored even after all the bullshit, right?! WRONG! To add salt to an open and rotted wound, I told him my parents wanted additional work done and gave him a description AND also said end of the day for the quote is okay, too. What’s this? The customer offering to extend the deadline for him! WTF!!! I guess that wasn’t enough because three days passed and no estimate! I figured since I gave him descriptions for additional work, he probably needed more time to get the estimate done. However, wouldn’t you agree that a good business owner can just send over the quote for the original work since it has been way overdue already and send over another quote for the additional work later? I don’t know but down here in California that’s how legitimate business especially services oriented like construction should operate. Called them like 10 times and nothing. After wasting almost two weeks I am DONE with this illegitimate business and their horrible business practices. I am posting this everywhere and on Unilocal because I don’t want another customer especially one that is easy prey like my parents to be taken advantage of by these procrastinators and no showers. I hate to say it but I would never recommend these guys to anyone and have had it with the terrible customer service and lack of respect in notifying us of delays. If I could give them a negative 5 stars I would. The sad thing is that my parents still would have given them the business. Why? Because they don’t know any better. Well, I do and will find another contractor that is actually a legitimately customer oriented business. Furthermore, I wondered why they never had any legitimate reviews even one on Unilocal Well, now they do and unfortunately it’s not a favorable one.