Fain Builders Inc

Who they are

Fain Builders works out of Buck Point Road in Tallahassee and has held Florida contractor license CPC1457760 since August 2008. Eighteen years of unbroken certification is a longer record than most builders on this list can show, and it is the strongest thing the public record says about them. Their own headline claims Tallahassee and nothing wider.

What they build

New pool construction, outdoor living work, and pool servicing. When a build goes well here, the reviews describing it are emphatic: one customer records a pool finished on schedule and on budget with questions answered quickly, and calls it the best build experience they had ever had. Another describes a build pushed through bad weather and problems with the site itself and still rates the result highly. That is a real capability, and it is worth stating plainly before the rest.

Where they work

Tallahassee. The licensed address, the Google listing and their own headlines all point at the one city, and there are no pages for surrounding towns, so treat anywhere further out as a question to ask rather than an assumption to make. One practical note: their website still carries a 2015 copyright and publishes no sitemap, so it is not a current picture of the business. The business itself is active — the most recent customer review landed in August 2026.

What the record shows

Google has them at 3.9 from 22 reviews. That is below the 4.52 average across Florida's builders, and the reason is specific rather than general. Five separate customers, writing between 2020 and 2026, describe the same failure: calls, texts and messages going unanswered. Two of those five say work was agreed and then simply did not begin — one after several planning meetings for a remodel. Two more describe tile or grout coming away from the pool after the build, with no response to requests to come back and look at it. Five customers out of twenty-two raising one issue is better than one in five, and across six years it is a pattern rather than a bad month. Set against that, the builds that went well went genuinely well. The sensible reading is that the work can be good and the following-up is the risk. If you deal with them, get the schedule and the scope in writing with dates against them, keep payments behind completed work rather than ahead of it, and assume you will have to chase. Ask directly what happens if something needs putting right after handover, because that is the exact point where these accounts break down.