Wish I could leave zero. He will tell you anything you want…read moreand do a bad job. don't trust him.

Brian Baines is a great guy and he delivers quality at a fair price. He keeps in touch throughout…read morethe process of estimating to job completion. He completed my new sidewalk job and my significant others driveway project exactly on schedule and has recieved inquries from other neighbors after seeing his work. I would not hesitate to hire him for any project requiring concrete know how!

This review was originally about their rental business, but the same people work for both companies…read moreand there is overlap. Don't do business with the Palmieris. Buckle in because I'm about to take you on a wild ride through my experiences renting for a year from Liz and John. I'm sure they'll offer some half-hearted reply attempting to contradict what I say in this review, but at the end of the day I have the texts to back it up. I also believe I was a good tenant: I paid my rent on time and never missed a month. I lived at 3403 Dawson with four other people during 2019-2020. I'll give you a quick rundown of the landlords: John and Liz work together, but John mainly supervises renovations while Liz deals with tenants. Liz would randomly perform spot-checks of the house under the guise of coming in to "collect our rent checks". When we said that made us uncomfortable and we were more comfortable putting them in the mailbox for her at the front of our house, she said that was unnecessary and the random audits continued. However, we realized that when she came in, sometimes she'd turn our AC up. You see, they had written into the lease that they'd pay for electricity and air conditioning, so these spot-checks were opportunities for her to adjust the thermostat to try and save some money. Speaking of their electrical penny-pinching, when my roommates and I wanted to get a fish and five-gallon tank during quarantine, Liz told us the only way they'd allow it was if we agreed to pay them $20 a month "to offset the rise in their electricity bill". For those of you who haven't ever owned a fish, a five gallon fish tank is about the size of a small bowl and doesn't use power. One day, we came home to find our beloved porch table missing. Only after asking Liz if she saw anyone stealing our table did we find out that they had brought a truck to haul away the table because the neighbor didn't like the way it looked. I'm not kidding. The table wasn't exactly something you'd find at a three-star Michelin restaurant, but we were broke college kids and it's all we could afford. Call me crazy, but I believe if you're going to have the balls to silently destroy your tenants' property, you should probably have the decency and integrity to at the very least tell them. Here's my absolute favorite story about these landlords. While we were juggling college classes during quarantine and the pandemic, Liz asked us to move out a few weeks earlier than our lease end date because they wanted extra time to perform renovations. What had actually happened was Liz had made a mistake: she had promised the next group of tenants that they could move in early before asking us. We said no, and John and Liz pestered us until finally we agreed to meet in person to discuss it. When we told them we had already made plans to move out on the last day of our lease, they showed their true colors. Liz stormed out of the house and slammed the door yelling something about how "karma is a b****" and we'd "eventually find out". John took a less-explosive approach and tried convincing us that technically the dates on our lease were wrong, and that we needed to "go by what they said" and not the legal documents. When that didn't work, they tried holding the fact that they gave us $200 off our rent in the month of April over our heads. Finally, about a day later John offered us $2,000 to move out early. Although we had already made plans with moving companies, we were broke college students and we decided to agree to their terms but ask for it in writing. After being shifty about putting it in writing, not a day later John went back on his word and decided he had changed his mind: no more deal. You be the judge of what that implies. Say what you want about John and Liz, but I will say they're good at one thing: pretending they're someone they're not. For landlords that spent the whole year pretending they were the only good landlord in Oakland and reputable people of their word, they made us realize that they were just like every other slumlord in Oakland.

Joseph and a small team came out and finished my sidewalk and small stair set in 5 hours and did a…read moregreat job. Went over in detail everything that I wanted beforehand and I am very happy that I went with this company. I would recommend to anybody.

Trey is awesome, very conscientious of the customer and what they want. The job is not done until…read moreit's done to his high standard.

We had work done this summer. Our house is circa 1941 and was built with used bricks, meaning that…read moreevery so often we have to have several deteriorated bricks replaced. For years, Joe Gimigliano had done this work, and now Trey, his nephew, runs the business. Trey and his crew were here when promised, and completed the work on schedule. My husband and I each work from home - and there are phone calls involved - and at no time was it too noisy or disruptive. The work completed was excellent, and we anticipate having them back again on a regular basis. The cost of the work was reasonable. Highly recommended!

Fantastic company. Great price for sealing a 2400 sq ft garage. Prompt service and very efficient…read moreat returning calls. We will be having them replace a crumbling sidewalk and driveway

Excellent service from Ryan. He poured a sidewalk for us at our rental property and got it done on…read moretime and in budget. We'll be using his services again very soon.

Met Justin at a home store when I was looking to buy bags of gravel. Justin was very personable and…read morementioned he could haul stone. This saved me over a hundred dollars and he picked up the stone, delivered it and spread it the next morning. 5 stars from me, good price, good timing and a nice person.

This morning a truck with a trailer for this business beeped at me and aggressively passed me on…read morethe left. The trailer was swaying violently. Why would anyone want someone so careless and unprofessional working at their home or business? Hope the extra minute was worth all of the bad reviews I am posting. How stupid to do that with your business name on the trailer.

We had our driveway sealed last fall. Our understanding was that all cracks would be sealed so…read morethat water would not be able to enter and cause undue further cracking during freeze and thaw. As of now, spring, the majority of cracks that were supposed to be sealed are now open again allowing water to enter. Seems that they were only covered, to conceal crack, and not filled. Although Steve did a fine job in coating our driveway the filling of the cracks, which was to be part of the job, remains a problem. Would not use his services again.

Kings Handyman did a great job installing shutters on all 6 of our windows, including 3 on the…read moresecond floor. Communication was quick and easy the whole time. He even moved up my appointment because he had an opening, which I really appreciated. Very professional, and the finished work looks great. I would definitely recommend Kings Handyman to anyone needing work done on their house!

They did great work on cleaning our gutters last year which were in pretty bad shape. Definitely…read morewould like to use their services again.

Reliable, professional and honest. His prices are very reasonable…read more His lawn service is fast and detail oriented. Our yard looks great. In fact, Patrick once saved our dog's life! Our dog, while chasing a squirrel, stuck his head under our fence and, in his efforts to get the squirrel, twisted the collar tight around his neck. He was choking himself. He was about to pass out from lack of oxygen when Patrick, with all his effort, was able to push the twisted collar off the fence post, releasing our dog. needless to say, patrick knows how to handle dogs.

Patrick has cut our lawn for more than a year, and I find him to be a reliable, good-natured, and…read moreefficient lawn service provider. He's very easy to communicate with, and he's dedicated to getting the job done. We don't make it easy with our funky backyard and our refusal to use herbicides on the lawn (but then our requests for herbicides on the brick only.... see, we are high maintenance...), but he always comes through for us. I highly recommend his services.