Campbell's Construction

He was great at the beginning talked a good game and developed a personal relationship. Got to work fast at first, required a heavy down payment that we refused to pay in full but gave him 5,000 to start. After no time at all job began to slow down and the lies began. He said he ordered flooring. We then overheard him talking about it weeks later and had not ordered it, lies started small but got bigger and bigger. He tried to keep asking for payment draws that we denied until more work was done because he stared not showing up or making excuses and a deadline of May 19,2014 went into June, and then July..... He lied about a big item when it came time to install a tub in he master, said he ordered a $700 tub from a local supplier only to then make up a story that a forklift put a hole in the side of it when they went to put it on his truck. Another 2 week delay. The "new" tub got installed on a weekend that we were out of town because we were tired of the room and bath room not being finished and came back to an installed tub that was hideous and looked spray painted and I immediately said it wasn't acceptable. Now more delays and more cost. Make a long story short, he didn't pay his employees and one of them confided in us and let us know the truth and that was he got a $20 jacuzzi tub at a junkyard and filled the holes and spray painted it and lied . He thought he could get away with it but didn't. He also didn't pay his worker for over 6 weeks. There is one other story I found online as well I'd like to share. First let me start off by saying Campbell Construction is a complete and utter joke!My husband and I hired Nate Campbell to repair our windows which included wood repair, new screens and painted shutters. We hired him in May 2013 and have yet to have this job completed. Nate kept our shutters in his possession up until 2 weeks ago when I placed a call to the Police department to have them returned. I went through phone call after phone call, text message after text message and continued to be ignored throughout this whole process. In addition to this story there lies another one. I made the mistake of referring him to my mother to have the underbrush at her house removed as well as having some trees cut down and filling in a hole with dirt that had to be purchased by Nate Campbell. This contract was signed in June 2013. Similar to the previous story posted, Nate used the weather as an excuse to not finish the project. Nate came out and removed the trees and began cutting down some of the underbrush on the first day but little to our surprise that would be the only day he came out. He coned my mother into giving him money to obtain the dirt. There were suppose to be 4 truck loads of dirt delivered but instead there was only 1 load delivered that wasn't even full. The pile of dirt remains in my mother's yard at this time. My husband nor myself have been able to contact Nate. He avoids our phone calls and messages even though he lives right up the street from us. He resides at 60 Lee Rd 2006, Phenix City,Al 36870 Nathaniel Campbell is an absolute ***-artist that will be responsible for his actions when our court date is set! If anyone would like to join our lawsuit please contact me my name is Allena Grillo-706-577-3276 or Quinton Harris- 706-577-4417. I've also heard thee was a local nail salon that was being redone by Nate Campbell and Campbell construction that never got completed and they lost over $23,000. Thee a complaint on bbb and a few other places. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS COMPANY.

The service was horrible. The contractor is horrible as well as a joke!!!

Nate Campbell had me fooled into signing a contract with him that was in July 2013 and was projected to end July 2013. At the time this review is being written and submitted Campbell?s Construction has not fully completed the job.

Nate Campbell lures you in with his ?good talk" and a "can do" attitude so I signed a contract for a 10' X 21' concrete patio. Campbell's Construction, or Nate Campbell; and a couple random workers came out, and made a wooden form for the concrete, I didn't see any ground leveling, or grading performed.   A few days later a truck came with the concrete and they started to fill in the form. The truck ran out of concrete and the form was not filled all the way. They left the last half of the concrete patio unfinished.  The weather started to turn to rain, Nate and all the workers kicked off their boots, and dropped their gear all over my yard got in their truck and left.  They didn?t cover the concrete patio to try and protect it from the rain. Over the next few days the rain washed away the first couple inches of the concrete into a lot next to my house where it formed a mound.  I asked Nate what happened he said ?it rained? he also put blame on the concrete company ?they didn?t bring enough concrete.? He said.

Nate and his random workers disappear for a weeks? worth of rain. The rain stops and almost 10 sunny hot days pass by and no phone calls from Nate, no text message from Nate, so I call Nate and ask him  ?hey guy did you forget about me? There has been nothing but good weather for almost 10 days now, I haven?t heard from you in almost 2 weeks. When can you come out and finish this job?? A few days later he came out. They make another wooden form, higher than the last form. A few more days go by and I have to call again and ask? when are you going to complete this concrete patio? I explain to him my yard looks like a construction zone for almost a month now.?  He tells me he has a truck for the following week.  The truck comes the following week along with Nate and his random workers. Guess what? Nate ran out of concrete again! I could not believe this was happening, what a joke.  When they start leaving, I ask Nate ?what?s going on?? he tells me ?they ran out of concrete? and blames the concrete company again and they leave. No contact no phone call, I call Nate no answer, I leave voicemail, no returned calls, the guy is unreachable.

When I Finally get a response from Nate Campbell, I ask Nate? when are you coming out to finish? Nate would say ?I will be there tomorrow? or ?I?ll be there when I drop off my helper? or just not answer the phone at all.  He never showed up when he said he would. I get a hold of him again after many attempts and tell him ?I paid you to do this job, we have a contract. Nate you do not need to treat me like I am side job get  this finished?.   I tell Nate ?you need to tell me a definite date you are going to be here to finish.? he tells me another date and of course he does not show up.

When I finally get a response from him again Nate tells me ?I?m not taking the chance of getting struck by lightning.? He told me ?if the weather is anything like it is here.? I let out a small chuckle to Nate?s answer because I could not believe this guy was serious.  If there was a cloud in the sky Nate would use it as a reason to not come over.  When I got to talk to him on the phone he would pick days that would have high chance of rain. I suspect it was in order for Nate to have reason to not come over.

A concrete company representative shows up at my house in August and starts telling me Nate never paid for the concrete from a month ago and that my property, my house will have a lien filled against it. The concrete company representative/bill collector hands me a concrete bill with Nate Campbell?s name on it.  I can?t believe this is happening to me, especially when I gave Nate $1000.00 cash to start the job.

I?m getting frustrated at this point so I call Nate almost daily asking ?when are you going to pay for the concrete they are telling me they are going to put a lien on my house? Nate finally returns my call and tells me ?I mailed them a check. I don?t know why they are contacting you? This was a lie.  I stayed in contact with the concrete company until 20 minutes before the concrete company closed on the last day before a lien was to be filled on my house. They never received any form of payment from Nate or Campbell?s Construction ever.  I end up having to drive down to the company and pay the bill myself because I don?t want a lien on my house or property over a 480$ concrete bill.

Nate finally comes to my house with bags of quickcrete to try and make the surface of the concrete patio smooth and finish the patio where he had run out of concrete the first 2 times. They start on the third layer of concrete and I?m thinking to myself by the time they get it right, the concrete patio will be up to the bottoms of the windows on my house. They smooth out most of the rough rocky lumpy spots. And since there was rain in the forecast for the following day they actually put down plastic and tarps to cover it. I leave the tarps in place. A few days pass and I try to get a hold of Nate for almost a week. No answer, no text message, doesn?t return my calls. 

I?m finally so fed up, I decided to call the police and file a police report. When the police came to my house I explained everything that had happened to the Officers. The police officer was so kind He called Nate for me on his personal cell phone, Guess what? Nate answered on the second ring! The police explained to him they were with the police department and asked Nate when he was going to complete his contract. Nate told the Officer ? he would be here tomorrow.?  Nate Showed up, I talked with him, I told Nate ?All you had to do was return my calls, call me back, talk to me, let me know what?s going on? and I asked him ?What did you expect me to do, not call the police??Nate answered ? I understand, I would of done the same thing? Which I expect was to shut me up, tell me what I want to hear because when I went inside the house, Nate immediately packed up all his tools and gear that he had left in my yard for the last 2 months and I seen him in his truck speeding off down the street.  The job started July 1st and is still incomplete as of today Sep 13th.   I haven?t had any form of contact with Nate Campbell or Campbell?s construction, in person, by phone, voicemail, or text message ever since?

He still has not finished the job, he still owes me screens for all my back windows that are covered in concrete splatter, and he left humps, lumps, low spots which hold puddles of water on the patio. The patio is so uneven when you walk across it you trip over high spots and stumble into low spots.  Nate Campbell and Campbell?s Construction in Phenix City, AL. has proven to be unprofessional, unskilled, and untrustworthy.

If you ever had Campbell?s Construction work for you make sure he has paid his bills, or else you could have a lien on your property.

To me this seems like a scam, I pay contractor, contractor orders materials and doesn?t pay for materials. contractor keeps money, material company files lien on property. I sell my property, the lien money is taken out of sale of property. I lose, contractor wins again.

He gave us a good price so we signed the contract.  He asked for half up front and we gave it to him.  He worked a half day the first day.  Came back a couple more times and built a frame using 2x4's.Then he just never came back.  We called and he said he would be there the next day and wouldn't show up.  Finally, he quit answering our phone calls.  He would not respond to texts or emails either.  He provided about $500 in labor and materials and then took the rest of our money and never returned.  We figure he stole about $1000 from us.  This guy talks a good sales pitch about his integrity and quality but do not be fooled by it. The workmanship on the frame that he did build was very poor quality.  None of the rafters were on center.  One end of the roof structure is over an inch lower than the other end. 
My husband attempted to have him arrested for theft, but the judge was convinced by his great pitch and humble manner that she refused to arrest him.  This guy is really good - as a talker...
If you use this guy, NEVER give him one dollar in advance, you'll never see him again.  He seems to have a history of doing this maneuver with people.  Better yet, just don't use him.

Nathanial Campbell was paid to put a new roof on my mothers shed. The roof leaked during the first rain after roof being replaced. My mother has documented everytime she called Nate... he kept telling her he would fix but never would show up and after numerous phone calls he quit answering the phone calls and would not return the calls. I called him so he would not know my number.... he answered the phone and promised me he would go to my mothers and repair her roof. Once again never showed up and will not answer the phone when I call and will not return call.. My mother paid him in full and roof never was right.... Nate was also paid to paint my 93 year old grandmothers kitchen cabinet doors. It took him weeks to return the doors and within the first week  a door fell off and the paint is already peeling. Nate will not return her calls.