We hired Leif to do a kitchen and bath remodel and were very excited by him initially. He immediately brought a crew to partially demo our home and seemed to be very engaged. His crew of 2 guys spent several hours.
Fast forward 3 weeks when we scheduled our initial site visit. We got to the home and were surprised to see no work had been done except what was demo'd in a matter of hours a few weeks prior. They clearly rushed to cut out several recessed lights in two rooms and cut all of them right into the ceiling joists.
In addition to mis cutting holes in the ceiling joists, they connected their work light into fiberglass insulation, leaving a fire hazard on our property for weeks.
For this partial demo and haphazard cutting into our drywall, Leif charged us $24,000.
Yes, you read that right: $24,000. We fired him at that point, and he since then he's lied repeatedly, refused to communicate with us, filed a lien on our property, and hired an attorney to fight us.
Lief said, verbatim, "it doesn't matter whether I spend 10 minutes or 10 days to do something, I can charge what I want."
Throughout the 3 weeks we thought he was working, Leif was onsite twice for 30 minutes each time. He does not lift a finger or get his hands dirty at all. His crew does all the work.
Problem is, Leif has never learned his crew's native language, so my husband always had to communicate his interactions to them. This lead to errors and wasted time.
As another example, Leif created and then left for 3 weeks *an active water leak* we asked him several times to fix. The bucket in this photo would fill up, and we had to drive to the property every so often to empty it so that it would not flood our home. Leif created the leak and then left it like this for weeks.
Leif overcharges for his work, does poor workmanship as miscommunicated instructions to his workers, and fights clients with highly paid attorneys rather than working to resolve billing disputes. Hiring him is like writing a blank check for change orders upon change orders and to pad Leif's high overhead costs since he does no actual work. read more