Tri County Development and Construction

This contractor gets one star because there is no way to give zero or less. Three words sums it all up, “substandard shoddy workmanship”.

Owner, Zack Khan, walked off the job and placed a mechanics lien on our home after we refused to pay $15,500 more when the job was supposed to have been completed. Zack had already hit us with demands for more money and change orders, which we paid because we believed that in the end we would have our home back more beautiful than before disaster had hit it. Zach had originally told us that God had been good to him, and he was going to pass that goodness on to us by even doing some things for free. He told us he felt bad for all that we had been through and that he would do a great job and we would be very happy with his work. Instead, he threatened us with foreclosure and now it has taken us more than a year to fix his shoddy work and we are still not done. If we could give his company zero stars even that would be too good.

There were so many things wrong with Zack’s workmanship starting with the kitchen cabinets that don’t even match. We have four different style faces on the cabinets and drawers in our kitchen. In addition, he cut window frames and door frames in order to make the counters fit. The short fat refrigerator he ordered also did not fit and we had to order a special size refrigerator costing a couple thousand dollars. What was supposed to be a custom kitchen looks like something out of a big box store with cabinets that are crooked, soft close hardware that doesn’t work, and there were no handles on the drawers or cabinets. Nothing was measured properly. We even had to demo a doorway because his measurements were off and the laundry machines would not fit through the door. The laundry closet also was not measured properly and the doors will not close with the machines inside so the framing and doors all have to be redone. The bathroom is also a disaster, with the light fixture hung upside down and not centered over the mirror, and the cabinet under the sink that was supposed to be freestanding, broken and nailed to the wall with horrible, dirty caulk, all around it. The medicine cabinet, which is round, was put in a square hole and framed out that way. The hardwood floors throughout the house are not hardwood at all, but fabricated wood from Lumber Liquidators that is already scratched up and chipping and his workers literally nailed the wood down with the nails showing along the edges. He built a massive bedroom closet that takes up a quarter of our very small bedroom and none of the bedroom closets do not even have hanging poles or shelves. The bedroom door does not even line up with the frame so the door cannot close and there is a hole in the door. None of the door handles were even installed. Most electrical (which he was never contractor to do any electrical) had to be redone by a licensed electrician in order for us to get our certificate of occupancy.

In the meantime, the list goes on and on. There were areas of the contract that were never even completed despite the fact that Zack was paid in full, such as the window in the basement that was supposed to be built, but is still boarded up, and the attic stairs and door that were never done at all.

We we do not want to see anyone else go through what we have gone through with this contractor and that is the only reason that we are writing this review. It has taken us well over a year to address these problems. This was the absolute worst experience we ever had with a contractor. Even worse than the guy who almost burned our home down prior to needing this rebuild. Zack completely took advantage of us during a time in which we were desperate. He talked a great talk and put on a great show. No surprise there, it turns out his New York license is actually as a home improvement sales person license. We are in the process of filing additional complaints against this contractor. Don’t make the same mistake that we did; Don’t be conned by Zack Kahn.