Integrated Property Solutions Co

Fred from IPS was great. The work his crew performed was excellent. He went over and above to make us happy. He was responsive, professional, on time and pricing was reasonable.

Fred Castro returned my call very quickly, his workers came out , examined the damage.....at that point was not sure what caused the plaster to bubble. His men examined the attic (on an extremely hot day), roof and inside ceiling....they conferred with Fred and soon found the issue to be; previous contractor (2 years ago) replaced shingles on roof and did not properly install a boot around one of the vents , allowing water to seep into attic and eventually plastered ceiling.. They advised me to call the previous contractor, which I did....he claimed it could not possibly be leaking.....really did not want to deal with him AGAIN. Fred had his men return within a few days to do the work, before we received more rain. Fred and his men, Josh and Tony, were very professional, did a great job in repairing plaster , painting and cleanup of work site. I have asked Fred for estimates on some additional work I would like to have done.. I would not hesitate to hire IPS.

Fred came for a free estimate the day after we contacted him. He was punctual, friendly and thorough. He was able to come in the next day for the installation. Everything went smoothly and the final cost did not differ from the estimate provided. Overall we were happy with his service and would definitely hire him again for other installations or home improvement projects.

Fred Castro came out and accessed the damage and was able to give me a very reasonable estimate. He advised my of several options due to the amount of damage, however, I chose the option of scraping and painting rather than replacing due to my limited financial resources. He also began work on my project the next day,and the work was done in a very timely manner and completed before the estimated completion date ( no half days or no show days!!! ) .Very professional, courteous, and punctual. He is a man of integrity and honesty, as he did not try to sell me more work than what was needed, and his estimate was very fair and cost effective. I especially appreciated the beautiful job he did, the porch actually looked as if it had been replaced. and my home-office has that finished professional look. All aspects of his service was exceptional,right down to the clean up, not a drop of paint or a tree branch to be seen and as a senior this was very important to me. I have used IPS before and they have never disappointed me in any way,and I will most definitely use them for any future job I need done. Many, many sincere thanks.

I'm retired and needed to move my disabled son and his wife into our basement to save costs. I went out to get bids in Sept. 2014 with the goal to have the 2 rooms and bathroom finished by year end. My son's apartment lease was up at the end of January 2015 and this timing would allow me one month to do the painting myself and move their things at a leisurely pace into the basement. I received 3 bids for almost the exact same price, all assuring me they could meet the end of year schedule. IPS (Fred Castro) had the best design (better materials and moving of existing plumbing to allow a nice uninterrupted ceiling). I discussed reducing the IPS price but Fred refused, saying he prided his work and wanted to do a good job. Since IPS had a better design at the same price and schedule as the other contractors, I awarded the project to Fred on Sept 15. A Dec 1 start date was in the contract and a finish date of Dec 31. Fred started the first week of December. On Dec 7, Fred adjusted his estimate to add a little to the material costs but also extended the finish date to Jan 23. This left me with only 1 week to paint and move my son in but I felt I could handle that. On Dec 21, Fred adjusted his estimate again to add a little more to the material costs and include the cost for the replacement of an existing drain line that was in bad shape. The schedule was not changed and I agreed to the change. Fred did not finish by Jan 31, so I had to move my son and his wife into a spare bedroom and put all their belongings into our garage. In early February, I asked Fred to do the painting since I would be slow doing it and I wanted to move my son ASAP. On Feb 11, Fred notified me that I would be charged $1500 for the painting. I was surprised by this since the only reason I was having him do the painting was because he did not meet the schedule but I figured we would work it out when he was done. Fred took 7 more weeks to finish the job. The final bill from IPS revealed an addition 14% increase in costs from the last estimate. Overall, excluding the $1800 for the drain line addition, this project escalated 21% in costs and the schedule went from 1 month to 4 months. Upon negotiation, Fred agreed to reduce the bill by 10. Fred did excellent work and the basement is beautiful. Fred did not take shortcuts or perform work-arounds as the other two contractors had planned and that was the reason I selected IPS. In my opinion, the 10% cost reduction is not adequate for the significant delay in the schedule and hardship this meant for my family. The delay is significant enough that I believe Fred never expected to meet the schedule and had hoped his excellent work would appease me. Fred did ask me why we were being so nice during the construction if we were upset and frankly I was surprised that he felt the schedule was not an issue. Fred was very prersonable, responsive, considerate and pleasant during the construction so I felt the final price negotiation would go well. However, Fred focused on all the good work he did and would not discuss the original estimate and schedule, essentially telling me that the schedule is unimportant as long as the work is high quality. I feel a 20-25% cost reduction is more in line with a schedule that went from 1 month to 4 months. Bottom line to me: Fred did excellent work, his cost estimating could have been a little better but his schedule estimating was either terrible or misleading. I would recommend Fred from 1) quick jobs or 2) larger jobs when scheduling is not an issue.

Fred took time out of his hectic schedule to come and do a free estimate on several items that needed to be done on the home we are looking into purchasing. I immediately liked him, he wasn't pushy and had a very congenial personality. When taking a look at the property he was very concise in his description of the work that needed to be done and set our minds at ease. He explained the why and the how of stuff that needed to be done - which was important to us as we are first time buyers and have very little experience with home repairs. We would probably invite Fred over for dinner after we hired him to do work on my home. His estimate was very fair and reasonable - and very quick!

This was a commercial job for a small company. The company is located in a high rise suite in the new City Center Allentown. We had multiple small repair jobs. IPS was the 3rd company I tried to come to the repairs. The previous Handyman did a poor job painting our office. I hired IPS to fix the bad paint job. They did a fantastic job bringing our suite back to status new. Fred Castro is very professional and returned my phone calls & emails promptly. Because this is an office he was willing to work around our schedule with minimal disruption to the office workers. His crew was curteous & professional & worked very neatly. We will certainly use IPS for our future Paint & Handyman jobs.

As soon as I met Fred the owner I knew he was going to provide quality service and craftsmanship. Stand-up guy with true ethical and moral principles. Very knowledgeable on just about everything when it comes to home improvement and repair. He and his crew did an excellent job and were reliable and trustworthy. Would not be afraid to leave Fred alone in my house. Will definitely use IPS again for just about any household issue that may come up.

I contacted Fred Castro at IPS by e-mail after reading his reviews on Angie's List. He replied the next day and we made arrangements for him to see the job. Fred is very professional. We received an estimate within a day or two. Everything was clearly spelled out in the estimate. He and his worker were out within a week and the job was completed in 2 days. I checked the work after the first day and sent Fred an e-mail about what I noticed. He replied the same evening that he had already planned on taking care of what I was concerned with. When they left after the second day, everything looked great. We were home both days and any time they had a question or concern, they made sure to ask us what we wanted to do. When Fred went to paint the peeled white trim on one exterior door, he saw that the wood was actually falling apart. He gave me a couple of choices of what he could do and I agreed to have him replace the trim with vinyl. He gave me an estimate and bought the materials and did the repair. We would definitely use IPS again. Fred is a pleasure to work with.

They were good and their owner was very friendly and explained very well and I appreciate that. But we got a better deal from another company. I think they wanted to take a little bit more time than the other company and it was a little bit more expensive. They were very responsive.

Fred was extremely punctual in returning our phone calls to get an initial estimate on the project. We received at least 4 estimates on the project and Fred was, by far, the most courteous contractor to deal with. Fred and his team were quick to complete the first phase of the project by removing all of the shutters from the house. I, unfortunately, slowed down the completion of the project by taking several weeks to repaint the shutters myself. Fred was very patient with me and my tardiness to finish my painting of the shutters. I called him when I was finally done and Fred and his team came back to the house to reinstall the shutters which now look great on our home!! I was not sure if we were going to use the screws that were used to hold the shutters on to the brick front of the house or use new plastic shutter anchors that I had purchased. Fred said it would be better to use the old screws/screw caps hardware on the reinstall but I did not have the screws or screw caps painted the new black color. Fred actually went ahead and painted all of the screws and screw caps himself while up on his extension ladder while he was reinstalling the newly-painted shutters!! This, in itself, saved me so much time and the screws and caps look wonderful! It only took Fred and his crew part of a day to take down the shutters and only part of a day to reinstall them. Fred completely cleaned up any and all debris after he was finished. Many thanks to Fred and his crew members!!

this work was done very well and at a reasonable price. In my experience, IPS was professional, responsive, and cared about the quality of the work.

I was very impressed. He did a beautiful job repairing the ceiling. It is like nothing ever happened. I was impressed with his ability to detect where the leak came from. Because he was able to find where a leak happen should have happened, and he did find an area where it was leaking and was able to fix it right away before it became a problem.

We were given an estimate by them and were scheduled to sign the contract. But he comes back at the last minute saying he has to increase the estimate as he did not consider a few things. We decided not to go with them. Eventually we got a very good and more job done by someone else with less cost than his estimates.

Fred was very quick to respond to all the issues that we had in our rental house. As we are out of state landlords, we relied on our tenants to inform us of any problems. Unfortunately many things got overlooked by them until they became major issues. Fred went out and took care of everything and even found some other issues that we were unaware of that could have become even worse. He always gets back to us with any questions and concerns that we may have. I will definitely be using his services again as I know that I can rely on him.

After his knowledge and advice, it was great to have someone who understands limited budgets and to work with us. It was also great to know he can remodel, update and repair anything in the home. This gives us a person to go to and we can save our money for bigger more complicated projects for him. Yet if something small pops up, and we don't have time, he will do as well! Best of both worlds! With so many untrustworthy contractors it's nice to find a reliable one in your neighborhood!

Right now, I am waiting to get a remit from the neighbor and getting some extra funding. As soon as I get everything together, the guy will start working on my property. They quoted $10000. I had four companies look at my roof and three of them wanted to sell me a new roof. The guy from Integrated seemed more honest. He told me how to fix it without having to replace the whole roof. I had some other problems that weren't as expected that he would be fixing. He did chimney inspection that needs to be rebuilt. I need to get a remit from the property owner. It is a metal roof. He explained to me how the patch would look in front of the house and come up with a decent roof again. He told me about the chimney and the chimney didn't look good because one could pull the brick out between the mortars that's how bad the chimney is. I can do that myself, but the only problem is that I broke my back and I can't get involved in the necessary materials. I have the tools and knowledge to do it, but I need three days of rest. I painted the front of the house and it knocked me for three days. I do what I can, but can't do a lot too much. Once I get it done, the roof will be fixed, the back steps will be fixed, the cellar entry will be fixed, the windows in the garage and the chimney will be fixed. He spoke about what I thought and told the same way as I thought. He explained how he would fix it. He was very honest about it. He is the only one showed up on time and everybody else went to the wrong address.

The discharge pipe for our sump pump needed to be rerouted. Fred was able to bury a pretty unsightly couplet we had at the end of the house and route the sump discharge into the downspout discharge so the whole area in much more neat and clean. The work needed to be done prior to our landscaping and he worked it into the schedule perfectly.

This was our first job with Fred and IPS. I appreciated how quickly he responded to my call and got to our house to check out the problem. He made suggestions about installing gutter guards that will help us not require gutter cleaning every 2 months or so. We had a ton of water coming over the tops of our gutters onto the flower beds next to our foundation. His crew installed the gutter guards in an afternoon and we have definitely noticed the difference. We have virtually no water coming over the top of the gutters and as far as I can see, the guards have been doing a good job keeping stuff out of the gutters and so keeping them clog free. We know plenty of water is getting our of the gutters because we can see the pools near the discharge tubes, which are routed 10-15 feet from the foundation. Everything, from start to finish was perfect.

Fred has been great to work with, this is our second job that he has completed and both times he has been thorough in his explanations of what needed to be done, provided detailed estimates of costs and worked around our schedule (which was somewhat complex given other work we had scheduled). The work was done well and the job site was left in perfect condition. As it turned out, we had another contractor here working while Fred was here and he mentioned to us that the work looked very well done, which was nice to hear. We feel very confident in the quality of the work and the responsiveness of Fred and the IPS team.

We are going to use this contractor for a great many projects as he has a wide range of skills. I will update the review with each project that is competed-which I anticipate will be in the next 30-60 days. Each project will have different pricing so as we proceed I will put pricing on each review

While we had to wait 3 months, due to the frozen ground, once the project began, it was done in a reasonable amount of time. There was a clear plan on how the new wall was to be built. The workers were thorough in their work, testing different stones until the right order was found, they were perfectionists.

Very professional loved the work performed. Will use him again, as well as refer him to others.

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE - AVOID AT ALL COST

Fred was friendly, easy to contact, and quick to respond to texts and emails. There was a little delay in getting a start date because of other job commitments, but once he and his crew started on our job, they stuck with it until it was done. They were all very polite and professional, they cleaned up after themselves each day, and they clearly took great pride in their work. The finished job is beautiful, and we would not hesitate to use IPS for other jobs in the future.