The business owner for Basements 4 Less, Charlie Johnston is a bluff, fly by night sort of a guy. He promises and convinces you so much when entering into a contract, to get on the 50% down at start and the remaining 50% in 12 installments, while knowing fully he won't be there to finish your basement at all. He convinced me so much that he was good with other home improvement needs I had, and I trustingly paid him 50% on day 1 for both basement and home improvement at the start of summer 2013. Now with a whole year passed, I have nothing to show in terms of his completed work. The only thing this guy Charlie is capable of sucking the money out of you. His wife pretends to be his secretary and calls you often for the monthly payments shamelessly, when they don't come to finish your basement work. I've had his sub-contractors, sheetrock guys, painters tell me that he doesn't pay them at all and many who used to work for him last year have left, because they can't keep up with the complaints they hear from customers every time they go to do the work, plus he doesn't pay them at all, even though he's very prompt in collecting checks from you. He hires extremely poor quality non-professionals to do the work these days, if you're lucky enough for him to send anyone to your home at all to work on your basement.
I know a number of people personally who eagerly signed contracts with him over 2013, who are distraught and are fighting to get the money back now. All you have to do before you hire him trusting his lies, is to make a call to the Division of Consumer Affairs in Mercer County - the minute you mention his name and his company's name, you can hear the secretary groaning. He has many cases filed against him there and in the legal courts of NJ. Look up his google reviews (google Basements 4 Less and read those reviews), it's all about innocent, desperate homeowners trying to get their money back or have the basement finished. There's not a single day I think, my basement would've been far better untouched - the amount of my money lost on this makes me cringe about my misfortune. Consider yourself lucky, if you had the good fortune of reading these reviews and stay away from this guy and his company, and his partner Daniel Williams too! read more