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Greg Misakyan is no good, he is incompetent, negligent.
I wanted to build a home to rent out. Greg advised to build a guest house on my large lot. He designed two bedroom one bathroom house. He supervised the process, hired an engineer.
When it was completed, city inspector, at the job side, declared, that city does not and would not allow renting out this new home.
The permit that Greg have obtained, was incorrect. Have he got the permit as a second residence would of been different. So now close to $ 100k was spent to build a home that is, empty now the 3^th year. As I am not allowed to rent.
As if this was not enough, this two bedroom one bathroom house he designed in a such a poor manner, that 10 years old would of done better. Here are few details.
If you are building a two bedroom one house, bathroom should of been in between the bedrooms or in a hallway. But not per Greg’s design. The bathroom is … in the kitchen.
Imagine the traffic in the kitchen in the morning. As if this is not enough, the toilet bowl is the first thing in the bathroom, and the vanity is tacked all the way in the back of the bathroom. Should of been the opposite. So imagine, you walk to kitchen and first thing that you see, is the toilet bowl, only feet away from the kitchen.
Imagine someone using it. it is so close, as if putting the toilet inside of the kitchen. Food and toilet next to each other. Dining and going to bathroom next to each other. Just like that.
In the bedrooms, on one wall, Greg put the closets, and on another wall he put the doors. He compromised both walls and used up two walls. Standard of practice the closet and the door must be on one wall. When I question why, Greg said he’s helper Tiko made a mistake.
Now, back to un permitted req room.
Since city did not allow to move the unpermitted req room, which I must bring up to code. So Greg applied for a new permit, I paid city fees about $ 800, another $ 600 to Greg and guess what have happened this time.
After city issued correction for the plans, Greg charged me again, but never worked on it. First he said that file got lost. Then after while he found the file.
Each time I would check, the corrections were not cleared yet. Later, he would say, the city project supervisor has a cancer, that no one have been assigned yet.
I was worried that the permits will expire. Greg promised to get an extension. Greg did not get an extension, he did not comply with the correction and the permit have expired. That was another loss.
Greg always will be asking for extra cash to «take care of inspectors». He is something else. He charged me $ 400.00 to take care of issues with an inspector. Oscar?
I had this un permitted req room on the lot. Greg advised to get a permit for a new building, but instead of building it, move the un permitted building to another part of the lot and modify to meet the city requirement. Per him, that would of met set back requirement.
Permits alone cost at least $ 7000,00. When the plans were approved to start moving the existing building to the new location, city inspector stopped the job.
Inspector said, the permit that was obtained, was for a new home construction and not for a structural move. Wrong permit again.
We made a conference call with city supervisor and Greg. Building and Safety supervisor told that, Greg made a mistake, that protocol for structural move of the building is different process, and this permit has to be cancelled and unfortunately, only 75% or the fees was returned. Greg was repeating he did not know, he did not know.
He does not know. a thing. Nothing.
The person by name Tiko, that in Unilocal gave Greg Misakyan 5 star, works for him.
I thought since he measured, been at the property it will cost me less for each project, since all projects were on the same lot.
I was wrong. I got only losses and endless permits. He introduced himself as an architect, he is not. I just find out. He has no such qualifications.
Friend of mine, who saw the home, that Greg have designed, said: «As if you give a child to design a home.» That ‘s how add shape and defective is his design.
Greg does not know a thing. My losses with him are close to $ 130,000