Rick gave me an aggressive bid promising above and beyond what I requested. Based on this I gave him the job. From the day he started the job I regretted hiring him. See below for details.
1. Rick came to my house and got a good look at the scope of the work. I gave him open access to walk around and size up the job. He bid it, then later claimed I changed the scope of the work and tried increasing his bill roughly 25% higher upon finishing the rough paint work (phase 1 in his words). In fact, I greatly reduced the scope of work releasing him from priming, caulking trim and more.
2. Rick also aggressively pushed me to pay the entire bill with 25% increase upon finishing phase 1 of the work.
3. Upon starting the job Rick angrily told me he needed a check for materials that day. This was not in the contract. He was quite nasty over this.
4. Upon asking him to finish, Rick only offered one day over 2 weeks to finish the job. The day offered was too far out and more importantly, to finish the job properly would require at least 2 days. So I told him I'd finish it myself.
5. Upon telling him I'd finish it myself, he then slapped me a threat of a Mechanic's lien saying I owed him $595.00 dollars. A completely arbitrary number that he made up.
6. From Rick's crew, there are multiple paint stains of differing colors on my brand new deck. He refused to come back and remove the paint or replace the boards. Trying to get him to resolve this is why I wasn't paying him anything after phase 1. read more
