UPDATE 3/28 (hopefully this doesnt delete my original post): As a reply to the response from the…read moreowner...wow. Brad's a shady person, and the longer you talk to him the more you'll pick up on that. I promise you that he's just giving more lies on top of lies with his "response".
He told me verbally in person when he was at my house a completely different price than he is now saying. He's a straight up liar. There is no misunderstanding, there is no miscommunication, he 100% told me $1500 for the wall repairs. Period. I vividly and specifically remember this.
Here's some more details (because I HATE liars): Originally, I ONLY had Brad come by to give an estimate on repairing the wall damages. That is it. He said $1500 for the walls to be repaired. Then, I told him there might be mold in the basement and he immediately went into salesman mode. Saying how they have this new technology for mold removal and how he prides himself on having the lowest cost for mold removal and blah blah blah. He went on to say that most places charge thousands of dollars for that work, but he only charges $1000, and he would give me a discount on it at $750 for the mold removal. So we agreed and even shook hands on it (as he was just about to leave) that the total would be $2250 for the mold removal and wall repairs, and he said they could get it all done in a day or 2. This is important to remember because in the end he refused to do even just that work.
Then, b4 he left, I was feeling good based on how he was talking to me and the price he gave me so I thought to have him look at some other work we need done. I showed him 4 interior doors that we want replaced with solid core doors, and some kitchen drawers/cabinets that need repairs. He looked and said that doors are $150 for labor plus the cost of parts (that was the only consistent part in the formal estimate). He didn't give an exact price for the kitchen repairs, but he did specifically state that he could get ALL of the work done (walls, mold, doors, kitchen) and keep the cost under $4000. Then I waited for him to send me the formal estimate, which listed walls at $3000.
Just to show you another example of a red flag discrepancy in his pricing, the cost for mold removal was only $300 in the formal estimate. If you recall, I mentioned earlier that when he was at the house he said it's normally $1000 but he would be so generous to give me a discount at $750 for the mold removal. If his pricing had ANY kind of consistency he would have either:
A. Told me while he was at the home that the price for mold would be $300, or
B. Listed the cost of mold removal in the formal estimate at $750.
To this day he still hasn't explained that single price discrepancy alone, let alone the others.
However, clearly, Brad is NOT a man of his word, and anything that he tells you verbally means absolutely nothing, and he will just change the price on you all Willy nilly as he sees fit. And that's why I wasn't able to hire him, because I caught him trying to scam me and pull the ol' switcheroo on me.
So he gives this new price of $3550 for ONLY the walls and doors. With him promising the walls for $1500, just do the math thats over $2,000 just for the doors. So with $600 for labor, that means parts would be $1450. This still just seemed like way too much for the doors seeing as anyone can get them for $200/door...so I asked if he could do the walls and doors for $2100 ($1500/walls + 4x$150/doors) as long as I provided the materials. So that is exactly when he said he wasn't interested in my project anymore. It wasn't "no I stick by my pricing and here's why..." it was "I'm no longer interested". I mean, how much more obvious does it need to be that this jerk was trying to scam me and was just mad that I wasn't falling for his BS. I was NOT out of line in any way for asking him to do the walls and doors for $2100 if I provided the parts (based on his pricing in his formal estimate). Remember, he originally came by to quote ONLY the wall repairs......he had absolutely NO reason to withdraw his interest in my job. He tried weasel his way around it to make it seem like he was honoring the original price when he really wasn't, and the way he did that was SO dishonest.
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS LIAR. The fact he's trying to defend his actions just adds to his level of dishonesty. If it came down to it I would even testify in a court of law that what I am saying is really what happened. I'm not the kind of person to just make something like this up. You can check all of my other reviews, they are all 100% legit. He's got some nerve to just dismiss what I'm saying as if it's just how I "feel". No. This isn't simply "how I feel", what I'm saying is literally what happened. No joke, no exaggeration, no misunderstanding, no BS (other than Brad's). The fact that Brad is trying to spin this the way he is, is so incredibly offensive and disrespectful to me, and it just proves what pure scum he is.
