Environmental Graphics & Painting

After inheriting a condominium, Alan Stringer, company owner, stopped by on or about Jan 18, 2012 and offered to repaint the walls, doors, cabinets, closets, kitchen and bathroom all the same color with gloss enamel paint for $400 including paint. Since I had to return to Oklahoma, my brother met with Alan on Jan 28, 2012 to let him in and assist w/ furnature moving. Alan worked throughout the day, and upon my brother's return late that afternoon, the painting was complete. After my brother inspected the job he paid Alan $400 via a check that later became different problem with Alan.  Alan inistanced on being paid in cash since he was going out of town over the weekend (this was never disclosed up front...while the banks were open to cash a check).  Alan finally took the check, and the following week called my brother saying that his bank would not process the check due to the illegibility of the check. So my brother cancelled the check and mailed him a second check, which Alan claimed never to have received.  This caused my brother to cancel the second check, and drive down from LA to hand deliver a third check. Alan attempted to cash both the second and third checks.
During the week of Mar 17-24, when I went back out to CA to prep the condo for rental. My handyman and I, while replacing door knobs and cabinet knobs, realized that the Alan never prepped the high gloss surfaces before he painted. All the paint on the doors and cabinets started pealing off in sheets. Several attempts were made to contact Alan, but the calls were not returned. I ended up paying the handyman an additional $200 to prep and repaint all of the doors and cabinets.