Doug Coons is a former student of mine, who routinely told me how much he respected and loved me. The way he treated my second home, and thereby how he treated me, was in NO way respectful or loving. I cannot even begin to comment on the quality of his work because it was overshadowed by the absolute mess he left behind and has not come back to clean up; I only gave him a 1 star rating because this review requires at least that much. I withheld $1000 until he finished the job by re-installing light fixtures and other items taken down while he was working, but more importantly until he cleaned up the garbage, broken glass, leftover bottles of juice and alcohol, cigarette butts, ladders, and multiple bags of hamburger & hot dog buns left behind. That was almost a month ago and he has refused to return my calls and texts...walked away from $1000 and his own ladders...which only costs him more money. Most disturbing was that he allowed his dog to destroy personal items that cannot be replaced, to rip up the sheets on our bed and to cover a white couch in mud...which he has not apologized for nor cleaned up, just leaving behind for us to find and deal with. On this rural property, we have a pond full of Koi fish. He posted a video on his Facebook page of him siccing his dog on the fish, laughing with his "crew" as they urged the dog to catch (and kill) one. I even found a box for an Air Gun that he must have used to shoot at the fish or other small animals there. It seems they used our home as a place to party, and when my wife questioned him about this video, he unfriended her. From other reviews IâÂÂve read, Doug uses intimidation and threatens violence if he doesn't get the respect he feels his work deserves. We went ahead and had the locks changed. Yes, I trusted Doug, and hired him, because I thought I knew him. Imagine what he'll do to your property if you're a stranger to him! If you want to feel used and violated, let alone be left with an unfinished and sketchy job after paying him, hire Doug Coons. I will never do so again and will be filing reports against him wherever I can to warn others against hiring him also.
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