Amigo Property Services provides " Remodel, Construction, Painting & Landscaping" according tho…read moretheir website.
During 10+ years and several projects working with Amigo, it is my opinion that what Amigo does WELL is snow removal and lawn mowing/blowing. 5 stars for lawn mowing/blowing, leaf raking/removal, weed-whacking (NOT to be confused with weed pulling or actual gardening) with a fleet of 6-8 guys and a massive mower. They make lots of noise but are done and gone in less than 10 minutes. 5 stars also for early, consistent snow removal!
What Amigo does not do well is Remodel, Construction, Painting. Our experience was no firm start date on our remodel. A bunch of guys just showed up one morning unannounced with a microwave over one shoulder. Your job might start anytime within a 3 month window of opportunity (summer). However long you have been told to expect your project to take, it will probably take 3-4 times longer to be completed. Make sure to write completion time and penalties into your contract. Get it in writing.
You can not communicate with the construction crew since most of them do not speak much English. They will not be asking you questions about how your prefer things to be done or what parts you might like... as most of them do not speak much English. The charismatic, knowledgeable, skillful, English speaking contractor, Guillermo, whom you have negotiated your job with will not actually be working on your job with his crew, as he has a full time job(s) elsewhere. Guillermo is available by phone to the crew for questions/problems and stops by once every other day or so to look at the progress of the work, as many contractors probably do.
We had specifically ask the Amigo crew NOT to set up the skil saw station inside the house on our hardwood floors. When we came home for lunch we found the crew set up/sawing in our living room, so had insist on their moving out to the garage.
While the crew was working at our home working on our "3-6 week" job (which went on for about 3 months) the crew appears to have helped themselves uninvited to drinks from our refrigerator in the garage, then left the empty drink containers all over the yard. Not a huge deal but how rude, really?
Our interior paint job wound up with different colors of white and off-white mixed or side by side in various hallways and ceilings... opps! Guess the crew got the colors mixed up? No repairs of nail pops, washing, dusting, filling, smoothing or sealing prior to any painting. I believe if I had not removed all the light switch and electrical covers myself that the crew would have just painted around or over them. Lots of colored paint blobs left on the white base boards everywhere.
Amigo did lots of stone work on the exterior of the house. The stairs and stone walk way up to the front had to be redone twice when the grout failed... twice.
The stone monument-style mail box Amigo built for us 6 years ago began loosing pieces of stone work two years ago and continues to crumble. The corner of one stone wall on the entry stairs is also crumbling.
The exterior, covered electrical outlets (we did not get to choose these fixtures and Amigo purchase giant, ugly, cheap fixtures) which were installed in several areas at the time of the stonework, have never provided power.
Amigo replaced our cement driveway about 3 years ago. This cement work began spalling after the first winter (the surface flaking off due to the expansion of the water on the unsealed or not-sealed-well surface).
To summarize;
PROS; Lawn care and Snow removal
If Amigo Property Services website said "Lawn Care and Snow Removal" I would give them 5 stars.
CONS; Remodel, Construction, Painting, Must get it in writing, crew does not speak much English.
*Great bid pricing on your remodel if you don't mind possible mediocre work which may or may not last; or you could stay home and watch the crew like a hawk.
