Mario & Mario

It didn't work out very well.  He didn't do a very good job.  The painting was substandard.  The workmanship on the carpentry work was bad.  My deck looks terrible.  I had to repaint the whole thing again this year after having it done last year.  He was way over on his labor price.  I told him that he didn't put the hours that he said he would put in.  He took out his calculator and jacked up the rate to reach the same number.  He was recommended by a good friend of my wife because he had done a lot of work for them.  He had charged them over $100,000 for the work.  It was a lot of money.  He wanted the money upfront from me.  I'm a builder and I know the business.  I gave him $5000 to start, but he constantly kept asking for money.  If you're in business for long enough you have enough money to fall back on; you don't take the customer’s money upfront and do the job.  He ran out of primer so he kept on painting at places without the primer.  He was agitated every time I complained, so I kept my mouth shut.  I put primer myself and repainted some of it this year.  He didn't wash the roof properly, so I ended up washing it again.  He didn't do a very good job of it.  He missed a whole lot of it.  He had to buy a machine to do some work.  Then he came back not knowing how to run the machine.  That was funny.  Being a builder I asked him to do it in a certain way.  He had actually done it before, but I had to show him how to do it.  He did the ceiling, and I supervised a little bit of it.  The leak is pretty much invisible now.  Nobody would notice it.