Moshe Calamaro & Associates

Structural Engineers — comes across like somebody you’d expect on a high rise downtown, but if you are reading this you have too many cracks in your walls, or your floors slope toward purgatory and you are tired of balls rolling to the other end of the house, or something just feels really off about the house you are going to buy.
That’s why I saw Moshe. And I’m embarrassed because I’m a realtor, and I can’t believe how many people, clients included, hire architects and contractors and even designers and forget about the person who will ensure their house doesn’t start collapsing.
What really impressed me was how he took his mountain of knowledge, like listening to a calculus professor and made it so I was listening to a 3^rd grade Math teacher. And despite working on a zillion projects, some quite massive, throughout Chicago, he made himself both available and approachable, a trait missing from so many established professionals these days.
I made the mistake of not ensuring my architect consulted with a structural engineer and now I have to fix his mistakes. But Moshe was able to show me how the repairs should be done. And his rates were a fraction of what the downtown Chicago firms charge, who didn’t even bother to return my calls anyway.