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- 1 review in the last 6 monthsNo negatives
- 40 customer photosOf completed work
Highlights
- Patio & pool-deck builds — repeated, detailed praise, several repeat customers
- Retaining walls & walkways — reliable rebuild work across several years
- Fair pricing — several reviewers call the cost competitive for the quality
- Follow-through on fixes — several reviews describe promised repairs never completed
- Contract scope disputes — one review reported a 3-tier wall built as 2 tiers
Mota Masonry & Construction is a masonry contractor run by Elder Mota, with a large body of Google reviews -- 29 written reviews since 2022, averaging 4.2 stars from 45 total ratings. Patios and pool-adjacent hardscaping are the most frequently and specifically praised work: reviewers describe paved pool patios and decks, a huge paved patio with a fire pit, and a patio redesign where Elder and his crew provided design solutions rather than just following instructions. Retaining walls and stone walkway or stair rebuilds also come up repeatedly across several years, along with a 2024 review describing a full driveway paving job handled smoothly from consultation to final walk-through, and a foundation exterior repair one customer credited with ending recurring basement flooding. Several reviewers mention working with the company on multiple projects or planning to hire them again. The record also includes a real, recurring complaint pattern that is worth taking seriously alongside that praise. Between 2022 and 2024, several reviews describe promised follow-up work that never happened -- an added limestone step and railings in one case, shifted pavers in another -- with the owner repeatedly saying he would return to fix things and then not doing so. A 2022 review described a retaining wall contracted as three tiers that was built as two, along with difficulty getting the crew to coordinate with another contractor working on the same yard. Other reviews from the same period used strong language accusing the company of dishonesty over material delivery timelines and payment requests. These accounts cluster in 2022 through mid-2024; the one review in the past six months, from May 2026, is a five-star account with no complaint. Pricing is described as fair to competitive in several reviews, and crews are repeatedly called punctual, hardworking, and easy to communicate with when a job goes as planned. Given the specific pattern of unresolved follow-up work in a meaningful minority of reviews, homeowners should get the full scope, including any secondary or add-on work, in writing before the project starts, and confirm a plan for punch-list items after the main job is done.
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