Contractor Review (Buyer Beware) - March 2022 - Do not recommend
We signed a contract with a local contractor JM Construction - the owner is Gabe Jordan. I found him on Angie's List/Home Advisor and he was very attentive and responded right away. He had positive reviews so I thought I'd give it a shot to talk further.
After meeting with him numerous times at our home, phone calls and email to discuss various phases of the project we felt comfortable having him do the job. He built good rapport and sounded like he knew what he was doing.
We signed a contract with him for drywall work, swapping out doors, trim, paint - it was a quick update to our upstairs. We could have done it but wanted someone who was able to get in and out. The whole job was supposed to take 1 week per Gabe.
We signed a contract and he requested 50% deposit. I was a bit hesitant but thought that he was a smaller contractor and maybe with cash flow to get all the trim, dump fees, drywall that he needed a chunk up front. Again, he said this would be 1 week only for all work to be completed.
He brought his employees in on Monday this last week to start with drywall work. No one was here for ever longer than a few hours per day, one day no one even showed up.
Fast forward to Friday, one guy showed up and did minimal drywall work - drywall is still not done BTW - was here for a few hours, then shared that he was not able to get in contact with the owner, Gabe.
He continued on, sharing way too much information and then went on to demand payment from us for his work for the week.
We obviously don't know what their arrangement is and we paid Gabe a lot of money (+$5K). We were left with a torn up upstairs which took us both over 16 hours to clean and unfinished job.
I've tried reaching out to him on his cell, email, text to find out what is happening and to give him a chance to make it right. There has been no response to date.
His employee who my husband offered to text if we heard from Gabe is now threatening us with a mechanics lien. Not sure how all that works but I guess we will learn soon if he follows through with that.
All said, we have learned a lot through this process and will definitely take extra steps moving forward to vet contractors even more.
On the other hand, I truly hope he is ok and that is not the reason that he is MIA - you just never know these days with Covid, etc.
Gabe and JM Construction did make a commitment to us and took our money (check already cashed as of 3/7) and didn't complete the work. I do not trust him to compete the work or back in my home and would like a refund of my deposit.
This was our families experience alone and just wanted to share if you do consider him for any work what my experience was. Similar post being made to Angie's List/Home Advisor also.
I will definitely update my review if he does try and do the right thing. read more