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STEVE ALVILLAR HANDYMAN PAINTER PLUMBER

Handyman Service, Interior Painting, Ceramic Tile Service,
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Jasmine K.
Sep 2008
1.0
Handyman Service
$2,000
It started when he and his crew suddenly stopped showing up to work. One of his guys had been near finishing the tiling work and there was the painting to do. My place was a work site but where were the workers? Days went by when I could not reach him; his voice mailbox was full and was not taking messages. Then I realized that if I called from a phone number he didn t recognize, he answered buoyantly. Then came repeated promises to come back tomorrow. That went on for days. All the while, he had had my keys, of course, and my kitchen & other cabinet doors, 24 in all; he had taken them from my residence, with my consent, because he said he was going to sand them in his back yard. Made sense, I had no reason to distrust him at the time. They re not valuable cabinets in and of themselves, but to replace them would have cost me thousands of dollars. His excuses I forgot! , I lost my wallet! , I had heat stroke - from sanding your cabinets (I swear he said it was from sanding the cabinets!), , I m in the emergency room! - grew more and more dramatic as time went by. They are funny in retrospect (I was waiting for this one: I m dying right here, right now listen: achhhh!!! ) but they were a nightmare to deal with. The good news is that the tiler came back of his own volition to finish his work. The deal for that work was $1400, reasonable and reasonably done. I don't know what portion Steve kept for himself and what portion the tiler got, but the tiler kept his end of the bargain, he completed the job. But as for the painting, I paid him 1/3 up front ($600 out of $1800 total) for the work he was to have completed and he had completed about 10% of that work. And he left a mess. I got a lawyer involved. I had my locks changed. I hired someone new. I lost money. Worst of all was the mind-*expletive* of all the lying and the inconvenience. What should ve taken just 5-6 days took weeks; time spent sorting out his BS, time spent finding someone new, time spent having that someone new to do the work. All the while, my belongings were in boxes, skooched in the middle of each room together with my furniture. I m happy to say though that I got my cabinet doors back (phew). Best of luck.

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STEVE ALVILLAR HANDYMAN PAINTER PLUMBER is currently rated 1.0 overall out of 5.
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