What Rialto Homeowners Say About Ellery ADU Studio Rialto
We don’t chase reviews. We chase permits that pass inspection the first time, slabs that don’t crack, and clients who actually want to talk about their project at a barbecue. The feedback below comes from homeowners in Rialto and the surrounding neighborhoods who hired us for ADU design, permitting, or construction. Each one agreed to let us share their words. We’ve left them unedited.
Recent Reviews
“We started with a garage conversion quote from another company that ballooned from $85,000 to $127,000 once they ‘got into the walls.’ Nadia’s team gave us a written price upfront, Haven Clause 1, and the final invoice matched it exactly. Our 420-square-foot studio in North Rialto passed inspection in February. The photo record from every visit meant I could show my sister in Texas exactly what happened to the old slab.”
Dana Z., North Rialto
“The city flagged our setback on the first plan check. Ellery didn’t blame the draftsman or tell us to hire an expeditor. They revised the drawings, resubmitted, and absorbed the extra plan check fee. That’s the one-contract model actually working. Our detached ADU in the La Mesa neighborhood is rented now at $1,850.”
Allen T., La Mesa, Rialto
“I already had a quote from a prefab company for a Boxabl unit. Ellery gave me a free second opinion and found three line items the other contractor had buried: crane rental for my sloped driveway, a sewer lateral extension the city requires past 75 feet, and fire-rated drywall because we share a property line with a duplex. Saved me about $14,000 in surprises.”
Michelle W., South Rialto
“My mother-in-law needed to move in after my father-in-law passed. We looked at junior ADU options, and every other builder wanted to start demolition before the permit was issued. Nadia wouldn’t let us. She said, ‘The Haven Standard says we pull the permit first, or we don’t pull the hammer out.’ Took an extra six weeks. Worth it. The inspector signed off with no corrections.”
Rosa R., Rialto
“We used the documented photo record to settle a dispute with our insurance company after a subcontractor’s trenching machine clipped our sprinkler line. The photos showed the line was marked, the machine was off-path, and the repair was done same-day. Without that record, we’d have eaten the deductible. Small thing until it isn’t.”
Allen T., La Mesa, Rialto
“I interviewed four ADU companies. Three of them said ‘call for a quote’ on their website and then sent someone who couldn’t answer whether my 1950s garage foundation would qualify for conversion without a soils report. Nadia walked the site, pointed out the sandy loam common in this part of Rialto, and told me exactly what the geotechnical would cost and why we’d need it for the permit set. We signed that week.”
Dana Z., North Rialto
“The 365-Day Done Right Promise sounded like marketing until our stucco cracked along the north wall last January, six months after final. I called, a live person answered at 8 p.m. on a Sunday, and Nadia’s crew was out Wednesday. They cut back the stucco, found the lack of expansion joint the original subcontractor had skipped, and fixed it. No invoice, no argument, no ‘that’s normal settling.'”
Michelle W., South Rialto
“We converted our attached garage into a junior ADU for my brother, who uses a wheelchair. The other contractor we interviewed suggested we skip the ADA-compliant threshold to save money. Nadia said no, explained it would fail final inspection, and showed us the CBC section. The permit set included the ramp detail, the door swing clearance, and the turning radius. My brother moved in last March.”
Rosa R., Rialto
“I was skeptical of the ‘written price before work starts’ claim because I’ve been burned before. Our new detached ADU came in at $187,000, all-in, from the first site visit through the certificate of occupancy. The only change order we signed was when we chose to upgrade the flooring after the slab was poured. That’s not a surprise, that’s a decision.”
Dana Z., North Rialto
Why Customers Trust Us
The reviews repeat the same pattern, and that’s not an accident. Dana, Allen, Michelle, and Rosa each experienced something we built deliberately into the Haven Standard: a price that doesn’t move unless the client moves it, documentation that proves what happened, and a promise that the finished ADU matches the permitted drawings or we make it right.
Nadia Ellery has operated Ellery ADU Studio Rialto this way since 2015. The 900-plus ADUs in our portfolio aren’t a vanity metric. They’re 900-plus projects where a written quote preceded the first invoice, where a photo record from every visit lives in a shared folder the client keeps, and where the 365-Day Done Right Promise is in the contract, not a footer on the website.
We don’t do urgency theatre. We don’t do “call for pricing.” We don’t subcontract the design to one firm and the build to another and then watch them argue about who missed the Rialto setback requirement. One contract. One written price. One phone number where a live person answers.
If you’re weighing an ADU in Rialto, whether it’s a garage conversion, a new detached unit, or a junior ADU for family, call (951) 476-1467. We’ll schedule a site walk, name a dollar range for your specific property, and put it in writing before any work starts. Haven Standard, Clause 1.
Written by Nadia Ellery, Owner at Ellery ADU Studio Rialto, serving Rialto since 2015.