I could not have been more wrong about John. When he first painted the house, he told us he'd change the color back when we moved free of charge. Well we moved, and he demanded we pay him $150. Since we were in a rush to move out, we paid him. He did the absolute sloppiest job I've ever seen. The property management company came in and took these pics, and told us it was absolutely unacceptable and we're going to have to pay for a real professional to do it. We're still waiting for him to give us back a refund or at least a partial refund.
The reason I even gave him a good review to begin with is because he gave us a stupidly low price for painting - $300 for 3 floors. I ended up helping him midway and correcting a lot of his errors because he thought it would take him 1 day (LOL - I told him he's out of his mind, it ended up taking 3 full days, with me helping 10 hours). It's obvious he's a slop shoddy handyman at best, with no painting knowledge or experience. He even had to call his friend for painting advice.
Because of the steal of a price, we hired him to install a sliding door and put a couple hooks in the ceiling (to hang a swing chair and some planters). This took him all of 45 minutes and he had the audacity to charge us $300! I said absolutely not, I'll give you $150 (which is already a lot, but I figured it would cover some of the mis-pricing of last time). He accepted this as fair since I brought up the discrepancy in his price per hour since last time.
Since the last paint job mentioned at the beginning of this review, he's blocked my number (after telling me he'd give me a $75 refund for the poor job we had to pay a real professional to re-do). I feel bad being so disparaging but the truth hurts and if I can save someone else from experiencing this catastrophe of events, I will. Find someone else. read more