Real Time Construction

I worked with this company for my drawings and they not able to complete my drawings on time and I lost 4k with them. Now I am working with other architects. I am not recommending this company

We have worked with Jaggy and Sergio on our Home Addition and Remodeling project. As their name suggested, they moved quite fast. I was super impressed by their solid work in foundation, framing and roofing. Our City's standard is quite high and Jaggy managed to response and fix the problems quickly. Hence we got our permit finaled smoothly. We hired some independent civil engineer to check the house after the project is done, who highly praised the engineering quality of Realtime Construction's work.
We were also required to install fire sprinkler system through the whole house and Jaggy recommended a good contractor for us, whose quote is the lowest we have received on fire system. This guy also moved fast and past the inspection smoothly.

Sergio, Jaggi and the Real Time Construction team recently completed our renovation project. They completely gutted and rebuilt the kitchen and living room, removing a load bearing wall to make an open floor plan, adding a 15’ accordion glass door and skylights and building our dream contemporary styled kitchen. They also replaced the flooring, doors, walls, windows and trim throughout the house, built a new gabled entryway, and replaced the exterior cladding with stucco after first retrofitting it for earthquake stability.

This team really knows what they’re doing. We were particularly impressed at the speed at which they completed the demolition and framing work, which took only a couple of weeks, with the crew even coming to work on weekends. They also had exceptional skills in framing, electrical, cabinet installation, stucco, and interior finish work.

They told us right from the beginning that they weren’t going to nickel and dime us for every little change, and they truly held firm to that commitment. We made a lot of extra requests beyond the original scope of the project, and while they rightfully came to us with a formal change request process for the larger items, the smaller items just got worked into the schedule gratis.

We also lived in the house throughout the renovation. Many builders we talked with wouldn’t consider allowing us to do this, since this was an extensive renovation. However, Real Time was extremely flexible and worked around our constraints. Having observed their work that closely on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that they are friendly, polite, accommodating, and they clean up after themselves each day.

Real Time’s bid for our project came in lower than every other contractor we talked to. Their bid was also more detailed than most, carefully considering all of the details of the project. Their change order pricing was fair, and they were willing to negotiate if I felt something was too high.

If you’re looking for a company which will give you a pretty gantt chart or web based tools and which has office staff calling to check in on you continually, this probably isn’t the right fit. Sergio and Jaggi are very communicative over text messaging, with a very strong focus on getting everything the way you want it, but are not as polished as larger firms at project management.

All in all, we are thoroughly delighted with the outcome of this renovation project, and with the professional competence, attention to detail, fair pricing, and openness to change along the way that we got from Real Time Construction. We would absolutely hire them again for this project if we had to do it all over again.