Efficient Construction

Matt M.

BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY!

I don't usually write yelp reviews but the fact that this company was so slimy I felt the need to tell of our experience. One of their workers came to our door and said he noticed the stucco on our house was cracking and if we would like someone to come out and take look to give us an estimate. My wife and I have talked about fixing the stucco before so said sure why not, the worker seemed like a nice guy.

After going online and seeing reviews about the company we decided to cancel the appointment, which was easy enough, until they decided to show up anyway. The guy insisted that since he was here might as well take a look around and that it would only take five minutes. Ok what harm could that do? It'll be quick right?

He took a quick look around at the stucco of our house and told my wife that he should check underneath our house because there may may be water damage. When he emerged he told us he had taken some photos and asked if we wouldn't mind waiting for his coworker to come by so they could chat with us about his findings, and that it would only take a few minutes.

What followed was a three hour presentation of how our house was basically on the verge of falling down and that they needed to fix these problems ASAP, and that the cost would be $30,000. They did everything they could to try and get us to sign a contract with them on the spot, talked about knocking some money off, how we could do this special financing deal ""today only!"", and they even tried to throw in fixing our fence? (We'd pay for labor but they had an extra fence from another job or some nonsense) Both of these used car salesman type dudes were visibly upset/disappointed when we kept telling them sorry and that we just do not have 30k to drop all of a sudden.

The comical part of this whole situation is that I had mentioned multiple times to tweedle dee and tweedle dum that I am in real estate and that foundation issues are something that come up often during inspections. What I did not tell them is that quotes from reputable foundation companies that I see for this type of work are usually in the ballpark of $5,000-$10,000 not this ludicrous amount they were saying. This is not how an honest company does business.

TLDR; Showed up even after cancelling appointment saying they would only be there for a few minutes and proceeded to go into a three hour scare tactics style presentation in the hopes we would sign a contract with them on the spot to do work on our house that we do not need for an exorbitant amount of money. I worry for people who do not know any better especially the elderly which is whom these people are clearly trying to scam.

K W.

A lady just called my number from this number and was asking me for someone , possibly their customer?? but I told her she's got a wrong number twice and she was kept asking me Who is the owner and blah blah blah.
When I told her that she's got wrong number at the third time, she just hung up on me. What kind of service is this huh?

Sunflower L.

PLEASE BEWARE THIS COMPANY AND THIER WORKERS.
They pray on senior individuals and try to pressure them to sign loans!!! SCAMMERS and DISHONEST. They take all paperwork and give you bogus stories that they can't leave any paper work or estimates until they get a contract. They filed a loan application with out my grandpas consent thru GOODLEAP WTF!!!!

Aileen C.

Review is for recent and past experience regarding estimates. To be clear, I have not had them work on the house.

In the past, I had requested an estimate, but they didn't show up. Today, they came back unexpectedly twice to ask if any construction projects may be needed within a year. So annoying since it was disruptive - woke up the kids where my wife had to calm them down while I worked. The first time, I noticed the guy leaving skipped my neighbor's house, so it seems they do target older neighborhoods where equity may be built and construction could be done.

Dwayne D.

On April 2, 2024 I wrote ...

Wow, I cant believe these guys came by our house AGAIN today!

OK, back in year 2022, Efficent Construction (EC) came by and pitched my mom.

#1. AFTER A 3 HOUR SALES PITCH I let my mom sign the documents just to get EC out of the house, knowing I would advise her to cancel within 5 days!

#2. EC gave my mom a 3 day to cancel form, but the law provides for 5 days for seniors.
(See California Civil Code § 1689.20 (2021)). I then went to check out the EC website and noted they didn't have one.

#3. So, I called up to ask why no website? Their ""IT department"" told me they needed a ""BUY""? a new server?! Well, I've been a software engineer since year 1990, and in two of my last three companies I programmed internet transaction software. And yes, in one of those companies, they had a room full of servers running at 50 degrees in temperture, but those servers were doing thousands of transactions per second and needed to stay cool. Um, I'm sorry but you can buy a POS $500 laptop to serve as a server if all its going to do as spit out an html page once an minute or so, which is what any EC website is going to do. And if you don't want to do that, just sign up with GoDaddy.com and pay them $20 a month. So, either they didn't want to spend $20 a month, or didn't know they could do that.

#4. The finance papers they presented, well, lets be nice and say they ""misheard"" my moms income, that's must be why the EC rep typed in a higher amount than what I heard my mom tell him.

#5. Then I found out, from the cslb website, that the State Attorney General was moving against them! (See results later.)

#6. Fast forward to year 2023, somebody had the nerve to leave a EC flyer on our porch again!

#7. Today, I was informed by my mom that she was going to have a company come over tomorrow and look at some stuff, she showed my the flyer, to my horror, it was EC!

Case Violation Disclosure
License Number 1049149
Contractor Name EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION
Case # N 2021 295
Date 11/02/2023
Status CURRENTLY UNDER DISCIPLINARY ORDER 3

Violations
CODE Business & Professions Code
VIOLATION 7123
DESCRIPTION Conviction of a substantially related crime
CODE Business & Professions Code
VIOLATION 7109
DESCRIPTION Departure from trade standards, plans or specs
CODE Business & Professions Code
VIOLATION 7110
DESCRIPTION Violation of the building or other laws of the state
CODE Business & Professions Code
VIOLATION 7154
DESCRIPTION Employed non-registered salesperson
Documents
N2021-295-20221216-Accusation.pdf
N2021-295-20220902-Order.pdf

You can go up on cslb website and get the accusation and order pdf files and read them yourself.

Interesting thing though, so after I typed this up I decided to call them and cancel. I spoke to a guy there who actually took responsibility for things of the past. And said all he can do is ask for another chance. I did like that, not enough to consider doing business with them, but that was the best answer he could give. Oh, EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION has a website now!!!! Powered by GeekForceWeb. But alas, GeekForceWeb itself has in invalid internet security certificate, so my anti malware software tells me to avoid their website!!!!! AND, I couldn't find their CSLB license number anywhere on their website. But now , EFFIECIENT CONSTRUCTION please do the following...
1. STOP trying to shave 2 days off seniors 5 day right to cancel.
2. STOP making ""mistakes"" presenting the finace forms for people to sign, especially seniors..
3. STOP with the whole, ""let me call my boss and see if he can put you on our 'surplus commercial order'"" routine. All you door to door companies use that same line.
4. STOP posting fake reviews. Although you are posting less fake reviews than you used to, at least you got smarter and spaced them out a little bit to avoid the Yelp algorithmn. EC you guys used to have 5 reviews of 5 stars posted on the same day, by users who had no other reviews of anything on Yelp at all. Easy to spot those fakes!
5. STOP knocking on our door! Don't call us, we'll call you.

On May 8, 2024, EC showed up once again!
To his credit, the EC rep didn't knock on the door this time, he solicited from the sidewalk. I'm going to have to find a way to keep my mom in the house, or at least in the back yard.

I checked the cslb website, EC is still under UNDER DISCIPLINARY ORDER 3.
I assume the reason they don't list their website here on Yelp or their business cards is because the website does not show their license number. I assume that as long as they don't show the website on any documents they give to the public, they can claim the website is still ""internal"" or ""not finished"" and not being used for advertising.

At this point, if you read this review on Yelp and you do business with this company, all I can say is ""you were warned"".

Patty H.

These 2 guys came to my house saying they had an appointment, ( which I was not looking for a roof). They wanted to take a look in my attic. (This was after they got on my roof to take a look). Then they were very pushy about getting in my house to look in my attic for water damage from the roof. I felt something was very suspicious of the whole encounter. The 2 guys were very nice and polite, but very,very pushy. So I told them I am not prepared for anyone coming in my house. So we set an appointment for today. Well after they left I looked up their company and found some shady information about the co. from yelp. So I immediately called the number on the card to cancel my app. Well they showed up anyways and when my daughter called to see when I would be home from work because the guys came back. I told her to tell them I canceled my app earlier this morning. And let them know I'm not interested, they wanted to talk to me. I told her ""no, again, I'm not interested"". So they sat in front of my house for 2hours waiting for me to come home.
I find this whole thing very disturbing.

Ruby M.

Hello,
Thank you for your response.
We still have a problem that was not resolved.
We've been calling and no one help us.
The outlet in our backyard was busted. One of your employee use the outlet and never said anything until I was to put a charismas lights.
We need someone from your company to check the busted outlet. This happened when you fix the garage roof.

Sincerely,
Ruby And Rebecca

Carolyn P B.

Identify who you instead of sending a a person out who didn't know the business.
They hung up the phone without identifying themselves. I wasn't told by the worker why and who I was speaking to. This was supposed to be an Estimate

Barnett J.

Beware of this Company! They have sales people (Eddie Lucero} that lie and promise things that they do not honor ;i.e., being on time, communication, cleanliness and products. They damaged my home, A/C unit and did a horrible job repairing my roof. They left trash in my driveway for two weeks until I threatened to charge them. When they demolished my old roof, it rained that night and ruined my ceiling inside my house, covered my A/C-Heating unit and I had to have a Tech come out ;it was because they covered the entire unit. They took a month to complete my roof and it looks horrible. I submitted my complaint to the CSLB but they were no help at all. I honestly don't know what the CSLB is there for, it seems like they protect the Contractor
's and not the consumer. Now Yelp won't let me upload the damaged pics smh!!

Gabriel S.

So after all we went through with this company trying to get every dime out of my grandma and have her pay $50,000$ and constantly nagging her to sign documents. My grandma called them and cancelled. Just yesterday a project manager calls her and asks how her new roof is doing ?! Like is communication that bad ?! She literally cancelled on you guys and the PROJECT MANAGER. The person who is supposed to oversee the whole project start to finish!! Didn't even know the project was cancelled and thought is was finished !!! RIDICULOUS