T.J. Nelson Home Improvements

GREAT, PROFESSIONAL on time and cleaned up the yard after compleation of all work.

T.J. turned out to be a liar...thee most dishonest contractor we had EVER met. On the day he brought us the final plans, he told us he could not build the addition for the 25k he had quoted us...he said he could not even do it for 60k. We were blown away...sitting in our family room, face to face face with me and my wife, he started making up lies, one after an another...talking about his misreading square footage prices etc. We paid him the remainder of the money we owed him for the blue prints (1/2 upfront and 1/2 when completed)...he left and we searched for another contractor. We contacted a contractor we used in the past. He looked at the blueprints and quoted us a price of 22k based on T.J.'s blue-prints. At this point, after going through the ringer with T.J., we were happy with the contractor and his quote...we signed a contract with him to do our addition. The blue-prints were garbage. The city BO rejected them. Twice I had to email T.J. to get information / calculations that were not on the blue-prints. Overall, the blue-prints were missing significant amounts of data the BO would needed to approve our addition...but T.J. lied to our faces on multiple occasions and told us they would pass based on the blue-prints he handed us. We had to hire another design firm and pay another 2k to have new design plans done from scratch. The new quote by our contractor was 29k to meet these much more detailed blue-prints. The city BO official has approved them and work starts on our addition on 10/7/2015...and if T.J. was not an out and out liar, the room would have been completed by April 2015. We are about to start a lawsuit against T.J. to recoup the money we paid him. We would never use T.J. Nelson for anything, we cannot recommend him and we surely do not like or respect him as a member of our community.