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This business was in my neighborhood in late August, 2025. The person I dealt with was named John, whose little boy showed up at my house on 8/24/25 asking if I needed work done on my driveway. When John showed up at my house a couple hours later, we discussed replacing the back steps by my garage. Only a verbal exchange was given about the work. I did not sign any proposal, estimate, or give him any money. In fact, he told me to not worry about a downpayment, and we'd "deal with the money later". He said the cost for the job would be $2,300, but that it was a "special deal, so don't tell anyone I'm giving you this price". John's son had given me a business card with the company name, website, email address, and phone number (317-429-6716) on it, but the card did not have John's nor any other person's name on it. John gave me no last name. I received a piece of paper in my door the next day (8/25/25) with the company's website and email address, and John's phone number (651-703-8044), but which looked like it was someone else's work proposal. There were multiple boxes checked that had nothing to do with the work we'd discussed. I called John right away to let him know we had not talked about any work to be done on the boxes checked on the sheet and he told me not to worry about it, he was only doing the steps. On September 1, I came home to find that my back steps AND the whole back sidewalk was torn out. I called John to ask why the sidewalk had been torn out, and he said "my guys did that", and not to worry, he'd "take care of it and talk to me tomorrow". When John came to my house the next day, Sept. 2, 2025, he tried to justify why he had demolished the back sidewalk, citing issues with the back steps by the house that had nothing to do with the sidewalk. I told him I had not asked for the sidewalk to be removed, and that I needed him to replace it. He told me he would, but that the cost would be $25,000 for the sidewalk and steps, which he told me was a "special low price, so don't tell anyone I'm giving you this price". I told him that I did not have that kind of money and, again, I had not asked for the sidewalk to be removed. He kept trying to give me all sorts of reasons to justify its removal and, at the end of this whole incident, he left with his crew, who I spoke to in their truck, who told me that John had told them to remove the sidewalk. I texted John that afternoon and told him no further work was to be done on my property or he would face legal action. He has not contacted me since. I did not, at any point in time, give him any money, or sign any kind of proposal, estimate, or contract. The two pieces of paper he gave me for his contact information were two different proposals only signed by him, and looked like copies of other people's work proposals. When I talked to my next door neighbors to warn them about this, my neighbor showed me the EXACT SAME paper I had been given. After some research, I discovered that the 317 number belongs to a private resident in Indiana, per White Pages search, and when it's called, an operator voice answers and says "the person you are calling is not accepting calls at this time" and then hangs up. The address on the website, when searched with Google Earth, shows an empty lot. The buildings around it do not have any indicators that this business exists. The website and email addresses on the business card and paper proposals look like they match each other but, on closer inspection, there are many typos so do not exactly match each other. Again, I did not pay any money to John nor his 'business', nor did I sign any proposal, estimate, nor contract, but I could have been out $25K, and I want others to be aware of this guy and his shady 'business' and practices.