Parker-Phoenix Construction, Inc

Adding a comment here: This guy has moved back to Miami and is operating under «Phoenix Construction, Inc.» His newest alias is: Itzhak Cohen (pronouncing it as «Isaac»). He came to my home to bid on our remodel, required 50% upfront, and thanks to these reviews, I was able to stop pay the deposit and back out before we got involved with this guy. He is using the license number of «Dominik N. Swaby», who of course, we could never get in touch with, despite multiple attempts. I have reported him to the city and state authorities but they say with the company actually being licensed, they can’t do anything unless they contact this Mr. Swaby. He totally conned us by playing on our love of sports, sharing his family experiences, and even telling us about the homeowners recovery fund for people who are wronged by contractors. Total scum bag. His cell phone is an LA number: 213−999−9595. And he is still using Thumbtack. I wrote a review, exposing his fraud which was deleted a few hours later. RUN away from this guy. Be careful, he may be headed back to California once he gets busted here again. He has been arrested several times here in Miami Dade and in Broward county to our north.

I wish I had written a review earlier — could have saved people their hard earned money. Isaac, or whatever his name is, gave us a bid that was significantly less than the next lowest one. Yet even a basic research turned up so many red flags that we did not consider hiring him. The first red flag was he did not have a contractor’s license and used the license of some dude name Brown in Tehachapi. That was enough to disqualify him, but the fact that his company’s address was a PO Box and the contract he emailed was an obvious copy and paste job from the internet, sealed our decision.
I hope this and other negative reviews keep others from contacting this company. But unfortunately, this shyster will soon close this company down and open another one under a different name. The only protection against scammers like this is to always perform your due diligence!

The reviews below are true and accurate, I had the same very poor experience with the company and «Issac». I regret not writing a review sooner as my experience was in March of 2015, I could have saved many of you lots of money. Long story shot, did not get what a paid for, constant liars, 4 weeks over schedule, poor craftsmanship by subs, I got stuck in the middle of the sub and Issac in regards to payments. Make sure this company never touches your home or your hard earned money. It wasn’t until I threatened lawyers that the work was completed, although very poorly and not to the standards of any general contractor.

Before you use this company please google GREGOR KOHN CONSTRUCTION FRAUD ST. PETERSBURG, FL and I’m sure you will learn all you need to know. This person uses multiple fake names, presents general contractor licenses from other contractors as his own, presents false and expired insurance certificates as valid certs. There is nothing true or real about this operation.

I’m only giving Parker-​Phoenix Construction one star as there is not any option for negative stars. THIS IS THE BIGGEST FRAUD AND SCAM OUT IN THE CONSTRUCTION REMODELING BUSINESS. Stay away from this guy Isaac Cohen or Gregor Kohn or whatever name he pawning himself under. Do yourself a favor and contact the Fort Lauderdale crime unit that specializes in construction fraud and you will be presented with rap sheet a mile long. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY, FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD! This Isaac character will sell you a bill of goods about his and his girlfriend’s gypsy ways in efforts to seduce you into his lies. Total scam! I’ve got complaints and reports out on this company to all regulatory and governmental entities that look after deceit like this. Good luck, and you will enjoy your project 1000 times better just for not using this company. Everything around this company stinks. I’ve lost more than $ 40k for actually no work at all.

I don’t understand why anyone would give this business more than 1 star!!! This is a total scam! I found this company on Thumbtack and fooled by its five star review (later I found out that the website took a commission from the company and clean up bad reviews for the company!!! Bad, bad, bad!!!) long story short, the representative called himself Isaac, or Itzchak, said anything he could to get my contract and 50% of my budget on the first day! Later it turned out that he was nothing like what he said he was. His real name is Gregor Kohn. The contractor’s license he uses is under Doug Brown. However, you will never get to meet Doug Brown. Gregor and his gypsy girlfriend are the only people you meet. Their only interest is to take your money and run while making all the damage to your house and your life. Google him and you will find all the truth about this guy. Be careful, he also has a fraud team including his family working with him. This guy definitely deserve a serious jail time!

They DON’T even deserve one star! This is a FRAUD!!! The person who runs the company is a criminal!!! This is the biggest scam ever!!!
The self claimed licensed contractor Isaac, sometimes Itzchak, Itzik, later turned out a professional fraud. His real name is GREGOR KOHN. Please do yourself a favor and go check his criminal record online. This guy has used more than 10 fake names, and four social securities! He ran away from Florida where there were multiple fraud charges against him, one is even a murder charge!
We found him on
where he was recommended with an all five star review. We got fooled and went for it. Later it turned out that he got all good reviews by always asking Thumbtack to get rid of bad reviews! His game is to win your business by charming you and giving you all kinds of empty promises. The purpose is just one, to get your money ASAP. Once you sign the contract and he will get 50% of the quote right away. Then he will hold you as a hostage financially. He claimed himself a licensed contractor, he is not. He only uses other’s license to get your business. He claims that he has his own professional crews but in fact he only get non-​skill workers on Craigslist. Once you complain, he either abandons your house for a couple of days until he get more money from you by bullying and threatening. After more than two months, we have lost more than $ 40k but only got a demolition done. When we made complains, he got a duster full of trash and dumped in our back yard! Check this link and you will understand more about his game:
Don’t believe a single word this guy says. He and his young gypsy girlfriend have no problem to steal what they can from you. Want to catch them? They live like gypsy, and run like gypsy as well. Gregor Kohn loves to say «I will go bankruptcy and good luck to get a fxxking dime back!» As the Florida detective puts it «the only place Gregor belongs to is jail.»

Absolutely stay away from this company or the representative of the company Gregor Itzack Kohn or Itzack Kohn. When Kohn presented himself, he may tell you different names but you can check out his photos posted online below. Kohn has many many fraud and practice without license criminal charges against him in Florida as well as many civil claims filed against him and his companies by homeowners in Florida. If you just google his name, you will come across tons of ripoff reports about him and different companies he established in Florida using someone else’ contractor license. The Florida detective in charge of his cases said this guy never finished any job he started. The detective also said that Kohn has an active arrest warrant issued against him. Here in California, Kohn seems to have resumed his usual scheme by using a Douglas Brown’s license to establish this company Parker-​Phoenix Construction in Los Angeles and solicit jobs throughout LA county. Based on my conversations with other homeowners and my own experience, he would not tell you the license actually belongs to someone else. He acted as if he is the general contractor himself and had active projects everywhere in LA and Nevada. He presented us with a contract with 50% down payment, which we negotiated down to 25% down and 25% upon demolition — turned out that this is in violation of California building code pursuant to which a contractor can only obtain 10% or $ 1000 as down payment, whichever is less! He told us he has 9 crews to work on various big projects in California and Las Vegas. But based on my conversations with workers, he may have only one small crew who he hired off of craigslist months ago and the rest would be brand new workers he’d hire from craigslist after getting a new project. He recruited all of his workers cheap from Craigslist so many of these workers possess minimal construction skills and worked without supervision of a licensed professional (the license holder himself never showed his face and license board couldn’t even locate this person). In fact, Kohn himself rarely comes to properties too. In our case, Kohn also provided us a certificate of liability insurance that is no longer valid — discovered this when we became suspicious and called the insurance agent. At the end, he only finished part of demolition, built one kitchen wall, removed ceiling spray, and pulled permits for us and took away $ 12,500.
See arrest photos:

Isaac and his sub-​contractors did a great job on a renovation job for our nursery. They demo’d the room, installed new drywall and electric and did a great job with finishing paint and trim. They also removed an exterior door in the room and did a great patch and stucco job on the outside. They were efficient in the bid process and delivered what we wanted.