Business ProfileforQuality Contracting Services

The contracted work for my home remodel started July 11, 2022. For eight weeks, the work was completed on schedule and satisfactorily. It was a $110,000 project with payments scheduled at various points throughout the project: A third of the balance due upon commencement of work; a third due after rough-in work completed; approximately 20% of remaining balance due when cabinets were delivered; final payment not due until 5 days after full completion of project, including punch list. On September 16, 2022, the owner asked if I could "do him a favor" and go ahead and pay him a majority of the balance. He said "things were tight." For eight weeks, the owner had exceeded my expectations, was a great communicator, and I did not hesitate to pay him ahead of schedule. I paid him $7,000 of the remaining $8,500 due. Then, he and his crew stopped showing up to work. For the next eight weeks, I continued to call and text him about finishing the job and picking up the large amount of trash and supplies his crews had left when they abandoned the job. During those eight weeks, he or his crew came out only three times: 1). His painters came and finished touch-ups inside the home. 2). His appliance contact finally came to correctly install my dishwasher, and 3). The owner and a crew member came by to pick up the trash; although he left a lot of trash and materials behind. Beginning October 21, 2022, the owner began and continued to give me days his carpenter and painter would be here to complete the unfinished work (redoing incorrectly-installed siding and painting the garage door he installed several weeks prior). He repeatedly failed to show up, pretended he did not know the garage door was to be painted (asked if I wanted to add it to the estimate), and then finally just stopped communicating with me on November 3, 2022. I sent him a termination of contract letter on November 11, 2022 and have had to hire another contractor to correct and finish his work.