Mr. Peralta was hired for architectural services to perform the renovation and construction of our home. We paid him the sum of $26,000.00 to design and implement the plans and to self certify the construction to speed up the process for the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
In fact, the only service he performed was to provide architectural drawings and to have those drawings approved by the building department. The fee for that service was $10,000.00. He did not provide any services in regard to the self certification process and it tookthree years to obtain the certificate of occupancy when it was originally estimated that it would take one year.
Additionally, we paid an additional $10,000.00 to the engineer he recommended for the self certification process. We never even saw him at the premises.in fact, we had to hire another expediter, Noel Building Consultants, Inc. To perform this service.
Finally, his plans failed to provide for the legally required space between their extension and their neighbors chimney. They inform us that they incurred costs in the sum of $14,000.00 to rectify this compliance issue.
Robert Peralta was incompetent. Never hire him
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