Live Oak Pools Inc

Who they are

Live Oak Pools works out of Havana in Gadsden County, north of Tallahassee, holding Florida pool contractor license CPC057288, current since June 2001 — twenty-five unbroken years. Their domain dates to 2010. They make no marketing claims at all on their own site, which is rare enough to be worth noting.

What they build

New pool construction, repair and servicing and spas, with commercial pools alongside residential. Renovation and outdoor living work are not among what they publish. No separate area pages are published, so Havana and the surrounding Gadsden and Leon area is the working assumption — this is the Tallahassee end of the panhandle, where there are far fewer builders than on either coast.

What their reviews say

There is almost no review record: no Google rating at all, and a single five-star Yelp review. One review is not a rating and cannot be compared with the Florida average of 4.52 in either direction. For a company licensed since 2001 that is a strikingly empty public footprint, and in a rural market it usually means the work has come entirely by word of mouth.

Worth asking about

With no usable review record, references are not a supplement here — they are the whole of your evidence. Ask for three customers from the last two years you can call, how many pools they build in a typical year, and whether you can see a finished one. Twenty-five years of continuous licensing in a small market is itself meaningful: a contractor who has held a license that long in a community that size has been accountable to their neighbours the whole time.