Gary Forrest Construction

In the kitchen for example, I had this long, sort of rectangular light fixture. It was looking pretty old. So I bought a new one per his recommendation, an inexpensive one. But, it looks so nice. In the dining room area I had a fan that had been installed by a friend of a friend and it wasn't installed properly. I could tell that it was a little uneven and it always made me nervous. I was relieved when Gary suggested that we should pull that out. He said that the dining room was not intended to support a ceiling fan. So he recommended that I just do a light fixture in there. So I just bought an inexpensive light fixture and he went ahead and installed it. He took out the ceiling fan and installed a nice fixture for me in the dining room. He charged me $1500 for the paint. I bought my own flooring, so he charged me for the labor. He charged me $2000 to install the laminate flooring and that included hauling the old flooring away. And then, I remember, I had to pay 100 something dollars for something else. He didn't do everything in one day. The paint job took two or three days and the floor installation probably was another two days. I feel that they were very honest and I really liked that. I had some tenants there before. One tenant decided to open up the place to some friends of his. So I ended up with squatters because these people were homeless and all of a sudden my tenant wasn't paying me, he ended up trashing the place and to me, it was a nightmare. So, I was missing some cabinet doors. I don't know why the cabinet doors were missing, same thing with a closet door. The place was a mess. When the hauling company came to take away all of that, they found the doors to my cabinets, but they ended up kind of like hiding them. So I was in the process of researching if I should be buying new cabinets for the kitchen, which Gary was definitely capable of installing. But he knew that I was on a budget, I was looking for the least expensive thing possible. I started looking at the kitchen options at IKEA because I thought that might be the less expensive way to go. So needless to say, Gary ended up finding the doors and I felt, "What an honest thing to do to save me money?" because he could have easily pretended that he never saw them and have me move forward with the plan of having to redo the cabinets and he could have made a little extra money off of me because he would have done a little more work. I really thought that it was awesome that he was very honest. The doors were dirty obviously, but he cleaned them up. He told me, "I think I can clean these up and I'll put them back on." That is exactly what he did. So, I liked how honest he was and his work was very, very good, in my opinion. I had researched other people. For example, the paint job, I found two other companies, one was willing to do it for $2400 and the other one would do it for $2600. So I saved about thousand dollars on the paint. Gary would have charged me more, but he knew that I was on a budget, so he said to me that he had some white paint and if I didn't mind going with white the entire place then he would charge me $1400. So I went ahead and did everything white. The people who have looked up the condo, when we started showing it, they loved the floors because he and his team, in my opinion, did such an awesome job. Maybe it is easy to install laminate. But, it looks very, very nice. They were very responsive.