AVOID HICKSON HOMES AT ALL COSTS!!!
I hired Anthony Hickson to do a kitchen renovation and the process has been a nightmare.
Anthony said I can pay him cash to avoid taxes. I did. I gave him a $21,000.00 cash deposit, he then went on a trip to Nashville, bought new tools and blew all of the money I gave him.
He kept pushing off my start date, and kept telling me, he would be starting my renovation and would find a reason to stall. Finally when he started, he kept giving me false finish dates, blaming it on other things. He never communicated that he wasn't going to show up, he just wouldn't show and we would have to constantly chase him to ask him what was going on with our renovation. He kept demanding more money, we ended up giving him $25,000.00 total and refused to pay him more until we saw more progress being done. We had 2 other contractors come in and look at the progress he was making and both said his time line and professionalism was unacceptable. The job should have taken a month MAX to do. There were days at a time that not one person would show up to our house to do work. He left our yard and house a disaster, not cleaning up after himself or trades people until we confronted him.
Fast forward to over 2 months later. We had other contractors that he hired try to contact us for payment because he wasn't paying his contractors. We also ended up hearing from other home owners who he has screwed over as well, asking for our help so they can take him to court (they've been dealing with him trying to finish their small kitchen renovation for 4 months).
We had to fire him and hire a contractor who knew what he was doing. When we did, we found so many things in our home that he butchered. He installed the kitchen partially, and ordered wrong cabinet door sizes, the cabinets were installed incorrectly and lopsided. He doesn't have much experience and it shows. He hired workers who even agreed that he doesn't have any clue on what he's doing and is just winging it and juggling job. read more