We hired Ray Rau of Rau Builders, Rau Barndominium. He has other company names but I can't remember them. We found out from the place he rented the porter potty from, and by the way he never paid that bill. Anyway it wasn't long after we hired him thar things started going south. He would have maybe on a good day 2 men, one of their wife's and a kid or 2. He said that his big crew was finishing a house and would soon be working on ours when they finished with the other. We never saw that crew. This went on for over 6 months. They might show up a day here and a day there but never did they work a full week, and sometimes it would be week's before we would see anyone there. He waits as long as he can then shows up right before you can claim abandonment. His game is to get you to fire him because it states in his contract that if you fire him he gets to keep your money. We sold our home and was living on our property in a camper and could see when they showed up or not. Needless to say last year was the most stressful year of our lives. Fortunately for us a Windstorm Engineer came by the house and put a STOP ALL WORK!!! sign on the doors, not that anyone was there working. We were out of town when that happened and got a call from my mother in law telling us that a man was there going over the house and that he didn't have good news. When we got home my husband call him and he met with us. He walked my husband around the house showing him all the things that were done wrong. He said that the house didn't meet standard code let a long windstorm code. He told us it would cost us over 20,000.00 to bring it up to code. We were sick! Ray Rau showed up not knowing we had an Engineer there. The Engineer walked Ray around showing him all the problems and Ray Rau stood there and told my husband and the engineer that he would bare the cost. We never heard from Ray Rau again. It ended up costing us over 27,000.00 to rebuild everything that idiot did. The Windstorm Engineer got us in contact with a real builder that when he showed up he had an army with him, no wife's or kid's. They were there rain or shine and worked late in the evenings and on week ends. He was a God send because we were so down about what that scam artist did to our home and the money that he stole. Our home is now the beatiful home we dreamed of and we love it! I'm begging people who are considering on using Ray Rau to read all of the negative reviews and know that they are all true. The few positive reviews that are on there are more than likely from him or people that are in on the scam. This man is evil! He has no honor, no heart and no remorse. He will rob you blind and leave you with a mess. And to all of you out there that he scammed, We need to work together on getting this man and making him pay for what he has done. I know there is no money to get back but we can get him put away or at least run him out of Texas.
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We hired Ray Rau of Rau Builders, Rau Barndominium. He has other company names but I can't remember them. We found out from the place he rented the porter potty from, and by the way he never paid that bill. Anyway it wasn't long after we hired him thar things started going south. He would have maybe on a good day 2 men, one of their wife's and a kid or 2. He said that his big crew was finishing a house and would soon be working on ours when they finished with the other. We never saw that crew. This went on for over 6 months. They might show up a day here and a day there but never did they work a full week, and sometimes it would be week's before we would see anyone there. He waits as long as he can then shows up right before you can claim abandonment. His game is to get you to fire him because it states in his contract that if you fire him he gets to keep your money. We sold our home and was living on our property in a camper and could see when they showed up or not. Needless to say last year was the most stressful year of our lives. Fortunately for us a Windstorm Engineer came by the house and put a STOP ALL WORK!!! sign on the doors, not that anyone was there working. We were out of town when that happened and got a call from my mother in law telling us that a man was there going over the house and that he didn't have good news. When we got home my husband call him and he met with us. He walked my husband around the house showing him all the things that were done wrong. He said that the house didn't meet standard code let a long windstorm code. He told us it would cost us over 20,000.00 to bring it up to code. We were sick! Ray Rau showed up not knowing we had an Engineer there. The Engineer walked Ray around showing him all the problems and Ray Rau stood there and told my husband and the engineer that he would bare the cost. We never heard from Ray Rau again. It ended up costing us over 27,000.00 to rebuild everything that idiot did. The Windstorm Engineer got us in contact with a real builder that when he showed up he had an army with him, no wife's or kid's. They were there rain or shine and worked late in the evenings and on week ends. He was a God send because we were so down about what that scam artist did to our home and the money that he stole. Our home is now the beatiful home we dreamed of and we love it! I'm begging people who are considering on using Ray Rau to read all of the negative reviews and know that they are all true. The few positive reviews that are on there are more than likely from him or people that are in on the scam. This man is evil! He has no honor, no heart and no remorse. He will rob you blind and leave you with a mess. And to all of you out there that he scammed, We need to work together on getting this man and making him pay for what he has done. I know there is no money to get back but we can get him put away or at least run him out of Texas.