Jerry
St. Charles,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, November 17, 2003
The report states that Jerry Piro is not a licensed architect in the state of Illinois. Jerry Piro stated he is a registered professional architect, period, in his letter of recommendation for Steve Lane. He is a registered Architect in the state of Georgia. The licensing requirements are the same for almost all 50 states including Georgia and Illinois. Jerry Piro took the national licensing exam while living in Atlanta. AIA is social organization for architects. AIA mebership is not required to retain your license to professionally practice architecture. Jerry Piro intentionally allowed his AIA membership to expire. The report states that "Mr. Piro was coming to Steve Lane's side and assisting him on deceiving innocent home buyers". Mr. Piro has no personal or professional affiliation with Steve Lane or his company and has no agenda or incentive to "deceive" anyone interested in building a home. Jerry Piro provided a sincere and honest letter of recommendation to Steve Lane based on his extremely positive experience building a home with Mr.Lane. Mr. Piro's only objective was to ensure that prospective home owners were fully aware of Steve Lane's commitment to quality and serving the individual needs of each of his clients, and most importantly, his unconditional personal and professional ethics and integrity. Anyone reading the report and this response is strongly encouraged to contact Steve Lane and discuss this issue with him. Mr. Lane can also provide you with Mr. Piro's phone number who would be happy to personally discuss these false allegations, and why anyone would be willing to state such lies to decieve home buyers from the truth. It is also curious that the writer of the report did not include his name and phone number if his purpose was to inform people of the truth? Without this information, he obviosly can not be held accountable for his lies and false allegations. Again, Jerry Piro is a licensed architect and general contractor who hired Steve Lane to build a home for his family. Mr. Piro stands behind his full endorsement and recommendation of Steve Lane to anyone interseted in building a home.