I first contacted Shawn Belmar of Cape Construction & Roofing on 4/18/23 about replacing the roof on the 2 story part of our 1- 1/2 story home. He provided a bid the next day via text. I asked for start date. Said it would probably be next week. I informed him via text on 4/27 that the 1 story part of the house was now leaking & asked if he could bring enough shingles & had time to roof the whole house. He measured the additional roof on 4/28 & gave us a bid on 5/1. He said he would be down on Friday, 5/12, to start the job. I texted him on 5/11 to confirm. He said that rain was forecast & they would do it Wednesday, 5/17. He texted me Wednesday morning, stated they had another job to finish but PROMISED to come the next day.
At 9:30 on Thursday, 5/18, Shawn texted that the shingles were on the way to our house. I asked if he was too. He answered that he had a doctor's appointment but his guys were on the way. At about 10, an SUV stopped in front of the house. I went out to greet them. No one got out of the vehicle. Instead, they turned & drove away. They came back shortly, & two Mexican guys got out & walked down the driveway next door looking at our roof. Because we didn't have a contract, I asked if they had one. They pretended to understand & speak virtually no English. By then, the semi truck loaded with all our roofing materials & an elevator had arrived, completely blocking the street. The driver wanted to know where to put everything. We had no idea & the 2 employees just got back in their car & drove away. I called Shawn & told him what was going on. He said his employees were headed to another job (no explanation why). I told him to get them back here. He told me where the shingles needed to go, & I told the truck driver. When the employees came back, the driver went over to their vehicle & told them he needed them on the roof to unload the shingles off the elevator as he loaded them from the bottom. They immediately turned around & drove away again. When I called Shawn to tell him what happened, he said his employees told him someone yelled at them. I told him that no one had yelled at them. He called me a liar, said I could find someone else to replace my roof & hung up on me. He failed to answer the phone after that. Thank God that he had required no money up front. read more