Derek Barber

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• By Svetlana V.

  August 17, 2023

  Full house, renovation

  $101,000

  I do not recommend this contractor whatsoever. In fact, I wouldn’t trust him to build me a bench let alone a house currently in the middle of dealing with the aftermath of him, and his company has left us homeless with none of our work completed like it was supposed to Already be. spent to our $30,000 deposit on supposed consultant fees that had never been in their agreement. He will scam you he will steal all of your money and he will not return any of your phone calls text messages and incredibly hard to reach. His biggest motto is money talks while money spoke, and he didn’t do anything didn’t even pull a single permit. I will definitely be writing another review. Once this nightmare has been resolved and over with more detail on the hell that he has put myself and my husband through in the last year. As a young couple with two small children, who have a fixer-upper home and trusted him to help us when we have nowhere else to go. We trusted him to complete our fixer-upper so we could move in this fall. It is now the end of August and the job hasn’t even been started because he’s incredibly unreliable, untrustworthy, and an absolute liar to the highest extent. He has no idea what he’s doing as somebody who preaches about honesty and reliability quality of work he hasn’t delivered on any of these aspects whatsoever incredibly disappointed and now my husband and I with our two very small children have nowhere to live, and have to figure out what we’re gonna do to survive this winter. There’s not enough words to explain how much of a terrible person and Company, Derek barber/upper deck builders are.

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• By Elizabeth N.

  November 9, 2022

  Full exterior rennovation

  $60,000

  Avoid using this company so you can spare yourself from going through the nightmare that I did. I strongly discourage you from doing any business with the owner, Derek Barber, as he is a shady guy. Derek is unethical, unprofessional, unreliable, dishonest, and does not have nearly the skills and experience that he claims to. In December 2021 I gave Derek a deposit for a large renovation project (new front deck, back deck, screened in back porch, front door, back patio slider, roof, and siding) that was supposed to begin in mid January 2022 and be completed by April 1, 2022. Derek did not start the project until March and completed it at the end of July 2022. All the while he lied to me by telling me that he had all the materials in his shop and then when it came time to do the work I was told he was waiting on materials and then there were times he told me that workers would come and put in a full days work and they either did not show or put in just a couple of hours or half a day. It was just one lie or excuse after another which became very frustrating and stressful. It literally made me physically ill and affected my mental health and quality of life as well. The contract stipulated that I would pay 1/3 as a deposit then 1/3 when the job started and a final 1/3 when the job was completed. After paying the first 1/3 in December and then the second 1/3 in March, Derek frequently asked me for more and more money above and beyond what I was contractually obligated to. In good faith (and desperate to finally have this project completed) I gave Derek more money at the beginning of June and was promised that the project would be completed in the next one to two weeks. Derek took advantage of me, kept not showing up and not doing work, and finally due to my exasperation and having some strong words with him, Derek finally finished the job on July 25 (almost 4 months past the promised date noted in the contract). The men that were working for Derek were great and did nice work but everything that Derek touched was done incorrectly or poorly. Subsequently I have had to hire other tradesmen to come repair flaws in the work done by Upper Deck. I strongly discourage you from using this company for even the simplest or smallest project.

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• By Tim C.

  October 22, 2022

  Renovate apartments

  I would stay as far away from Derek as possible. He is unreliable, untruthful and unethical in my opinion. He took money, did not do anything close to what he promised in our Agreement, could not explain where the money went, and then claimed he needed more money to continue. What a scam....I would not go near this guy, and my experience was truly bad.

• By Brianna B.

  August 4, 2022

  Build a deck

  $8,000

  Tried to rip off my elderly parents. This man doesn’t understand business and will put you off for bigger jobs then try to float your deposit for as long as possible.

  There are literally hundreds of people in the area that are more competent and won’t try to steal from you or lie and prolong the contract.

• By Aleksandr O.

  September 6, 2021

  Deck replacement

  I hired Upper Deck Builders Company to do my 2 decks replacement job
  - Received a quote from the Owner - Derek Barber - licensed HIC and CSL
  - On April 30th 2021 - I gave Derek a check for $6,500 - 50% deposit - (have a signed contract with Derek's signature acknowledging receiving deposit)
  - was promised that job will start at the end of June 2021
  - after multiple delays, on August 17th Derek sent a message that he is no longer planning to do the job and will return my deposit
  - after refusing to meet, on August 18th Derek said - stop bothering me with your pointless messages - check is in the mail
  - today is September 6th 2021 - still no check, and Derek stopped responding on my texts/calls
  - filed a small court claim in local district court
  - filed formal complaint to the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations
  !!!STAY AWAY - SCAM - TERRIBLE COMMUNICATIONS!!!