Southern California homeowners said their ADU contractor took money but never completed the work.
Residents are left with finished projects, yet the contractor had a clean record with the Contractors State License Board until the I-Team got involved.Aracely Reyes found Next Generation Builders on Instagram and hired the company to convert her Whittier garage into an accessory dwelling unit or ADU. “I don’t have to worry about the stairs in her room, whether she falls or she doesn’t,” said Reyes.
Lily Rodriguez paid Next Generation Builders $200,000 -- nearly the entire price of her project -- for a two-story ADU. But workers abandoned the project long before it was complete. We tracked down two people tied to the company: Angelina Gorbaseva, CEO and a 2018 graduate of the University of Southern California, according to her Linkedin page; and Esteban Araya, who also once claimed to be the CEO on social media, but his recent posts show him traveling the world. In a phone call with Araya, he told us to “be careful of putting out wrong information.” Later, in a text message, he accused us of defamation.
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