Cabana Pools of Southwest FL Inc

Did not show up when promised, repeatedly did not answer calls, workmen bad attitude and language. Work still not completed

NEVER NEVER USE HIM. The person that I contracted to build my pool, Keith Dermody, I have come to have marked concerns about his business practices. Including: He REFUSES to give me releases from the contractors that have done work on my pool that I have already paid him for. I have already paid him $20,250. He will not even tell me their names. But the paver people refuse to come back and do other work, so I really wonder if he has he paid them. When I hired him he told me that he had never had a complaint with the state about his license. I have looked up on the state web site and see an incident from last year where it lists a violation and his license was suspended.. Number 2012031357. I feel that someone who refuses to pay their child support is not an ethical person, he even told me, after I hired him, of course, that he refused to pay child support. Before I hired him, he told me that the only thing he subbed out was "shooting the shell", otherwise his company did everything in house. Later I found out, he has had no employees that all subcontractors show up to do any work at my house. This was a major factor in me hiring him, and a MAJOR untruth. It appears to me that his "company" consists of himself and his girlfriend and they clean pools. He told me the other day that he "found" some paver people and he would send them over to do my pavers. This has been the ?quality? of all his subs. The first paver people he sent, their boss left the job and I speak only limited Spanish, they laid under one of my trees and on some ceramic tiles that I had bought to put down on a kitchen. Obviously, while they laid on them, they broke some of them. Now I do not have enough tiles to do the kitchen and I can not match those, so I have to buy enough for the entire kitchen. There has been no supervision on any of the subs for the most part. I did not sign on to be the construction foreman. I told him that I was going to report him to the better business bureau, he said to go ahead he has had lots of complaints, but he can always explain those away. He seems to be very good at making up excuses. He also told me that he was going to try and convince the screen gentleman to put up my pool cage without waiting for the permit to go through. The screen company owner is an ethical person so both he and I said that was not going to happen without the permit. There are also pictures of fabulous fountains on his website on his photo gallery, that I feel is a fraud as he did not build those. www.cabanapools.net There are other things that have happened also, but with all of this I believe his license should be revoked. Lastly, just now two unkempt old men showed up walking around my property in what looked to me to be a beat up old truck. I asked what they were doing, they said Keith sent them to pick-up the pavers that had to be taken up (another story about how he had put down pavers that didn?t match, as he said the company would pay to have them removed and re-put down, I thought that was a scam, why not just getting matching ones to start with? Why bill someone for something that was not necessary? Well, back to the men, I asked if they had insurance and workers comp. as the pavers were heavy. They said, ?lady you ask too many questions?. I told them to leave, as they were driving away, one of the stuck up his middle finger. A really top notch quality company that Keith runs NOT!! I would NEVER USE HIM AGAIN. Anne