Baby Bear Construction LLC

My pregnant wife and I were looking to add on to out 100 year old house for the baby. We got a home improvement loan through a bank and hired Baby Bear to do the work. They very quickly started the job, demolishing the kitchen and dining room first. Keep in mind, my wife and I are living in the house during this construction. Constructing the new foundation is where things started to fall apart. They claimed they couldn't dig for the longest time because it was rainy. We weren't in a terrible hurry to finish the job so we were okay with this for a while. They demolished the deck, at some point. Then when they finally did dig, they found a small hole in the foundation. This caused all work to stop until the foundation could be assessed. It turned out the existing foundation needed to be fixed before they could move forward. This was quoted by Baby Bear to cost around $60k. This quote is way our of line for what it should have cost. At this point, my wife and I were ready to fire them. This is after they received around $22k from our bank loan. At some point around when we were firing them, they came back and said they could do the foundation for $10k. I assumed this was some tactic to keep us on the hook, we decided to let them go anyway and go with another contractor. They refused to give us any of the money back for the foundation they never constructed. They left a mess in our yard from the demolition, which some part of that $22k should have covered for them to take care of. At the end of the day, we got swindled by this company, but we still got the house built, but it was infinitely more difficult without the money they walked off with. We had to cut a lot of corners, I had to do a lot of the work myself and I had to go with lower end materials for parts of the job. The bright side is that my baby has a bedroom and I get to shine a light on their shady business practices. Thanks Angie!

BBC was very easy to work with. Michael the owner was very responsive and checked in onsite daily and via the phone with an update and status for the next days work. Jason the contractor was professional and courteous. They maintained a clean and contained work space including covering the floor with paper and putting up poly to keep the dust contained. When we ran into a hiccup, michael explained all of the options available to us. We would recommend and use them again

Will never recommend, AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Service was exceptionally slow and overall project took 30 days longer than was projected. Staff did not show up everyday further delaying the project and they left the rooms they were working on a complete mess. Only until I complained to the owner and withheld future payments did work finally get done but even then the quality was not what was expected.