I originally called Tony on 4/8 about a fence project, gave him details of the work needed done along with the address, all seemed good so far. Hadn't heard anything from him by 4/16 so I sent a text with an attached diagram of the project in mind. No response by 5/5 so I call him again, have to go over again what I wanted done, who I was and the address. No response by 5/14 so I call him again, we speak and I'm under the impression that the work will begin on 5/15 at 8:45am. The morning of 5/15 comes around and no Tony, I call him at 8:56am and he says "oh, I'm on my way". I get a text from him at 9:02am asking for my address again. 9:33am he still isn't at my house so I call him again, he says that he has to run by a store to pick up some materials for another job but will be by my house afterwards. I remind him that we had agreed on 8:45am and I was already late for work. He finally arrives at 9:45am, an hour late, takes some measurements and gives me a verbal quote of $575 for the complete job. He tells me that if I am OK with the $575, he would talk to his crew to see if they can fit it in the next day (5/16) or if not then, it would be done on 5/18. I said the $575 would work for me but I would like to see a contract of some kind before work was started. He said that wouldn't be a problem and he would send one to my email the evening of 5/15. The afternoon of 5/17, I text him to let him know that I hadn't received a contact via email yet and checking to see if the work was going to be done on 5/18. No response until the morning of 5/18 when he said that he would have the contract today (meaning 5/18). Still no contract or other contact from him until I text him on 5/22, to which he responds "Who is this". I give him my name, remind him of the fence project. He responds blaming the delay on the recent heavy rains and says that he got a new phone and lost all his information. He asks for my email address again and claims that he will send a contract, also says that the fence will be done "next week for sure probably looking Tuesday [5/26]". Tuesday 5/26 comes along and I text him at 10:11am letting him know that I am off work but doing yard work so I might not be able to answer a call right away. 12:12pm that same day, I text him again asking if he was still planning on starting my fence today. No response. Thursday 5/28 I draft a contract myself (in case if the barrier was him being able to draft one) and email it to him at 12:02pm to just fill in the total cost, date of completion, sign it and send it back to me. I also text him at 12:08pm to let him know to be on the look out for the email. Still no response so I call him at 6:17pm to see if he had seen either. He confirms that he had seen them and says that he would send it back to me the evening of 5/28. He also says that he will be at my house on 5/29 between 8:30am and 9:00am to do the fence project. I wait around at home until 9:06am, call Tony and he doesn't answer, voicemail is not set up so can't leave a message. I have to go to work so I text him at 9:32am when I get there letting him know that I was at work but my (adult) son can give him the contract and make sure everything is set. No response and he calls me at 9:47am but I cannot answer it before he hangs up after letting it ring once (I assume he accidentally called). I call him back at 9:48am and he sends me straight to voicemail (that remind you isn't set up). I call him back again at 10:04am, same thing. I decide to call from my work phone (different phone number) at 10:50am and he answers! He claims that he had heavy rain in Williamsburg but I told him that it was dry as can be in Eastgate. He says that if the rain stops in the next 20 minutes, he'll head my way to get the job done. There were very scattered very light drizzles through the day where a fence could have been installed with no problem. No further communication from him at all. To sum it up, if you want cheap prices (or at least cheap verbal quotes), go with Tony... but if you actually want a project completed, DO NOT waste your time with Tony. read more