I typically would never write a negative review ... .but if I could save someone even half of the trouble we've gone through, it's worth it!
We reached out to Vince Anderson and his girlfriend Megan DeAnn, the owners of Fence and Concrete Masters in August of 2022. We planned to have an inground pool installed in September by Clark Concrete (AMAZING). The pool was installed September 19th with another contractor, 120 feet of retaining walls completed by October 6th. Vince with "Fence and Concrete Masters" & his son-in-law, Cody Perry, owner of "No Limit Construction Crew" was contracted for additional concrete around the pool/pool deck, "cool deck" overlay colored to go over the existing concrete around the pool, custom pergola, fencing, and new railing around the deck.
He came to us before Christmas and asked us to pay him so he could pay his guys before even one job was completed. After discussing this, we decided to go ahead and pay the remaining amount since it was right before Christmas. He also requested cash and we agreed. So not only did we pay before he was done....like 5 months before he quit without finishing. Thank goodness for our other contractors and their willingness to help us finish.
To date, he has not finished the fence, the railing, the caps.....he left the overlay incomplete and refuses to come back to finish anything. We went without railing on our deck and around a 12 foot drop off on our driveway for 8 months.....we used a fence panel as a gate for 8 months. The concrete around the pool is completely stamped in some areas and not at all in others. He splattered concrete all over our new retaining walls. The stamped concrete is multiple different colors....not intentionally different colors and is already cracked in multiple areas. The overlay was supposed to be a consistent color and texture.....it is drastically different and there is no way to cover it up. The white portion of our pool is scratched and dyed from the colored overlay that ran into the pool that they just left. There are many, many areas on the white pool rim itself that have paint tape that will not come up, scratches galore, and concrete mix stuck to it. We have tried everything and the pool rim is completely ruined.
We also paid them $8,000 for a custom pergola but ended up buying pre-made kits (another $7,000 out of pocket) because he refused to give us any materials he stated he purchased.
Three weeks ago, he came to us and said we owe him more money because "the concrete got bigger, the fence doubled in size, and I'm not working for free!" We pulled up our contracts and had another contractor measure to be sure.....our contract says 450 feet of fencing, we have 424 feet. As far as the concrete goes....he asked us to come and approve the "form" that they laid out and we said it looks great. It's exactly as big as we agreed upon. I went back through text messages, contracts, etc. We tried to explain this to him but he said he "I don't give a F*** what it says"
He finally came two weeks ago to pick up the fence railings to weld a gate. He also told us he wasn't finishing anything else for us unless we paid him $10,000 more than our contracts. We held on to the concrete stamps and asked him to bring us the gates back and at that time we would give him the stamps. One hour later, the sheriff showed up saying that Vince told him we were stealing his "stuff". I explained the situation and how our previous/current other contractors have advised us to bring him to court. The sheriffs both agreed that the work they were looking at was less than desirable and it's unfortunate that they couldn't do more to help us.
We were SO patient with him and the excuses as to why he couldn't come, why he didn't reply, or show up. So here we are from contracting in August.......to MAY and he quit without getting one job completed.
I have attached multiple pictures for reference and can also produce contracts, text messages, etc if he attempts to contradict any of this. So friends.....pass this along so no one else goes through the 10 month battle to simply have a contractor complete the work he was contracted and PAID to do! Reminder, the pool and retaining walls were completed by our first contractors and were completed on October 6th of 2022.....it's almost June of 2023!!
PLUS.....they have utilized pictures of our property ALL over their facebook, website, and produced a commercial on local TV with our property, all without our permission. We have requested them to be removed and the response we received from Vince, "Uhhh, sorry. It's not illegal. LOL"
Fence And Concrete Masters, LLC - Fence Contractor in Saint Joseph (business.site)
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Vince Anderson
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