Rob Roth Architects

Description of Work: Architectural Plans for Renovation

Description of Work: Update to review of October 16. Simple 2,400 retail/office building, permit still not issued because of uncorrected defects and mistakes in plans. Had no choice but to terminate his services last Friday and hire a new architect to take over in order to insure that the plans will be brought up to code and the building can be completed in a reasonable amount of time. These plans were first drawn in February 2012!! We asked for 2 changes early on, otherwise we should have been good to go by late Spring. New architect quickly identified deficiencies and inaccuracies (yesterday) that hopefully can be changed and avoid more additional cost. But our main concern is that we have a tenant for the building and don't want to lose it because we have lost confidence in this person;s ability to deliver a quality and accurate productin a reasonable amount of time. We have used this new architect before and he is good. Boy, we should have stayed with what we knew. I am concerned that my boss will fire me now because I made such a bad call - squandered the Company's money, and let this go on way too long, giving this guy to many chances...(I am my own boss by the way but have partners). Never negotiated his fee. Our understanding from the start was that we would pay what he billed us, but we expected to receive top quality service. We have done this numerous times successfully with our contractors and subs, but boy, was that a huge mistake with this one. We paid each invoice within 1-2 days, big mistake. Left us with no leverage to get him to focus and give us complete and accurate plans to build with. He actually emailed us saying he had never been treated like this in his 35 years in business...What - never had a client who paid his bills on time even though the products were defective? And then took him to task for bad performance? He never took accountability for the problems nor acknowledged that he mislead us about his work and corrections. And missed EVERY deadline. There are enough good architects around who design beautiful buildings. We recommend you avoid this one.

Description of Work: Hired this local architect to design three homes and one commercial building. Of the four, only two actual plans were permitted and are being built. Had to throw out the other two and eat the loss. The architect is a talented designer, but has never kept a deadline, the plans are sloppy, incomplete, inaccurate. Things are missed, resulting in protracted delays and added cost. You have to chase him down and check all of his work. Unbelievable! I would strongly advise anyone that is thinking of using him to be prepared for a long, frustrating process of back and forth to get corrections and add months to your time frame.