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"Serious Scam Alert" - S.B., Riverside, L.A., Orange County, Imperial, San Diego
This "OWNER" (FERNANDO) is a criminal. A scammer, committing fraud daily taking people's money stringing out a job continuing to ask for cash never completing anything. Fernando took a substantial amount of money from me, my neighbor's and has not completed one thing at my house and others. He was doing work in the area and neighbors said he was ok, at first. He was not. By the time the word got to me he had received a substantial amount of money up front for four different large projects. To start, Fernando stated when he started the tree trimming he had a license to operate, insurance, and provided a card with license number on it (picture provided). My neighbor introduced me to Fernando and vouched for him (And yes, I know my fault) so I didn't question it. But I should have. Fernando then said he did concrete and landscaping. Stated he could landscape my hillside tiering it back with another retaining wall, stairs for access, plants, fruit trees, ground coverage, etc. He also stated he can do pavers, even a fireplace, and gave me a bid for all. I thought it was too good to be true, it was. When I hired Fernando, he had about 17 workers here and said he could get it done in 10 days or so. It was a lot to do but with that many workers it could have been completed. That was November 25th and to date, 12/13/22, Fernando has still not completed one thing at my house. Even the tree he cut down initially still lays on the ground uncut with stump still there as well (picture provided). He was paid in full for the tree and clean up of the back hillside of property. Neither was completed to date. As he was doing the tree he started on the other hillside (work described above) along with back yard area fireplace, pavers with rocks in between, etc. He was shown in a book from local vendor which pavers I wanted and had already priced out. Fernando stated he has an account there and can get them cheaper. Later that day, Fernando said he contacted the vendor and they have them in stock arriving Monday the 28th. They never came. I asked Fernando and he said two more days. I called the vendor to add to the order for delivery as I was working on another project. Vendor did not even know who Fernando or Bernabe Tree Service was. They had no deliveries scheduled to my area at all. When I asked Fernando, he stated the vendor had made a mistake and he had the receipt from the order. Fernando never could provide the receipt, but I had already paid him some for the pavers and materials for wall on hillside (My fault I know). But it was a substantial amount as it was a large job. Fernando was then MIA for 11 days with the money I provided him. I contacted him several times as he was on other job sites but stated he was sick (You could hear equipment in background). He even sent a picture of him in bed but it was actually his wife I believe (picture provided). He did state he had workers at my house. He only had two workers here and as you will see in the pictures, they had zero experience in masonry or anything else (pictures provided). I started looking up Fernando's so-called license with California State Licensing Board and he has no license for anything (Again I know my fault). Since initial start date on November 25th not one thing had been completed. When he finally showed back up on December 6th from being "sick" he said he needed 10 more days for my house. On the 8th of December, unannounced to me, Fernando began work on my neighbor's house above me also receiving partial money upfront (to date my neighbors pool deck area is destroyed). Fernando built a ramp up the hill on my property to demo my neighbors pool deck and did not even ask. And then, Fernando took all his 12 workers moving them to my neighbor's house and stopped working on mine but continued to use my property to store his tools and materials. After 19 days, NOT ONE job out of the 4 jobs/projects I hired Fernando to do had been completed, not even the initial tree he was hired to cut down which had been paid in full for. By this time, with little work on my property, not even halfway done or any visible progress my property was destroyed, completely destroyed. Trash everywhere, the original fireplace base had to be tore down as it was crooked and unstable (picture included). Demo still sitting in yard. At every point during this time Fernando was constantly asking me for more money after receiving over 80% of the overall money upfront. When I said no more money till completed, he was visibly upset and threatened not to continue. He said after pavers didn't arrive the vendor was crazy; he would bring samples of other pavers. He never did to date. When I asked him to return the money and forget it because nothing was getting done and that's not what we agreed, he said no way he'll finish. Fernando is a scammer, thief, con artists, criminal. (Part 2 in pic area) read more