08/01/2019
May 1, John came over and gave me a quote of $4700 and wanted half down to start. I wrote a check for $1500, assuming that would go towards materials. We kept calling him and he *finally showed up to power wash *one month later. We didn’t see him again for 3 weeks. He gave us some sad story on why he wasn’t coming or even responding to our texts and calls and *promised he was going to finish. That day he said it would be $500 extra to do the windows. I (foolishly) believed he would fulfill his promise because they actually showed up 2 days in a row to scrape and it appeared (although I wasn’t watching closely and found out later they barely scraped) they were doing a decent job. They worked 4 hours the first day, and 5 the second, that was when I gave $500 cash for the windows to his brother, Dave. About 2 weeks later they were back twice to sloppily apply the primer (which was actually leftover paint he had, one was even satin finish) over dirt and peeling paint. He told me he only used SW paint, yet one of the paints he used as primer was GLIDDEN! (I just found that out 2 days ago when I was cleaning up the stuff they left in my yard for weeks). They worked 3-4 hours each day putting primer on all the lowest spots they could reach without a ladder. The second time they came was the last day we saw them. That was also the day he was crying about his health and his brother’s car and promised my house would be “sweet” and “badass” when he was done but he needed $800 more dollars. Sadly, I gave it to him. He talked himself up (even though he never really did any of the work) and foolishly I trusted him. He may be a decent painter, I wouldn’t know, but I do know that he is an excellent scam artist. I realize this kind of thing could happen to anyone but I don’t want it to happen to anyone else and that is why I made this page.