DO NOT HIRE GLORIA CASILLAS to build your home in Rosarito Beach, Baja Mexico. This woman is a con artist. She will sweet talk you into believing that she will build you a home within 6 months and will attempt to have you make payments that will not match the work done.
She will be really quick to convince you that her and her company and workers are professionals, but be aware, she is not a contractor and her workers are people that are not professionals. Early in our construction, we were very "impressed" with her fuent English/Spanish speaking strategies and her construction experience, only to be left with a project undone after one year into construction.
Until we made the decision to finish our home ourselves, was our home completed. After MANY trips from the U.S. To Mexico with materials to finish our home, materials in which WE PAID for, did we finally get the job done. This woman took advantage of the fact that we were AMERICANS living in the U.S. And were not living closeby to supervise her construction.
Realizing that may were getting a scam, we decided to head to Mexico WEEKLY in order to monitor construction. At this time we realized that the workers who initially were hired to start the construction were no longer on the job site due to non-payment from Gloria Casillas. Basicallly, they walked off the job after not being paid. Then came in new workers, who did mediocore work, and they too were never paid so they walked off as well.
Once we realized her cycle of deception, did we decide to take time off from work and head to Mexico to ensure that our home would be completed. We hired new workers, we paid for them ourselves, and we completed our home soon after.
Gloria never returned our numerous phone calls, ignored our e-mails, disconnected her cell phone and NEVER returned to our job site even though we left many messages for her throughout this time frame. We actually made a trip to CONSTRURAMA where we thought she was purchasing the building materials for our home and they too had an outstanding bill for us to pay because she NEVER paid them as well.
Once our home was completed, our roof leaked and gave us a whole new project AGAIN to repair due to the inadequate construction her workers had done. During the walk through, we also noticed that the paint we purchased for our home was never used (we left this for her to give to the workers) as our exterior was never painted, the drains were never properly constructed as we had a MAJOR FLOOD during the rainy season, another project we had to repair, and our sliding glass doors we purchased were broken at installation, another costly replacement due to her negligence.
Do not hire her or her associates to do anywork for you. Gloria Casillas is a scam artist.
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