The owner, Kamal was very charming and attentive in the beginning but as the brick and concrete…read morework on our front yard and stairs progressed, he stopped returning calls, workers started showing up sporadically or not at all until we had to follow up with Kamal who would make excuses about his mother being in the hospital as to why work was not getting done or workers were not available. I don't see how one has to do with the other as he was not on the job site at all times. Lots of short cuts were attempted - my father and husband literally had to be on watch throughout the process to make sure they were providing structurally sound work. We were smart enough to draw up a detailed contract as to what work was to be done, and at times even that was refuted. He even attempted to start the work before he signed the agreement, glad we did not or we would be even more dissatisfied than we already are. I see that he received reviews on Home Advisor during periods of time he said he was unable to work on our projects, adding weeks to the completion, so easy to see our job was not a priority. During our process, before he started slacking, a neighbor inquired about their service and we said so far, we were pleased. Fast forward to a few weeks when we're trying to get our project completed and he's trying to add additional cost to the quote, when we reminded him that we even referred him to another job, he replied that was "his luck", not our referral. Our neighbor, after finding out how his service fell flat decided not to go with him after all. I guess that's his karma. He promised to power wash the work site after everything was completed. When we were finally nearing the end and asked him about that, he said he would only do that if we hired him for $10k roof job we also had him quote. Bait and switch and smooth talker. WOULD NEVER HIRE HIM AGAIN again and would DEFINITELY NOT RECOMMEND HIM. We're still stuck with sloppy concrete work right in front of our front gate and a mantle over our front window that was half completed. Sloppy and dishonest!
