Ameripaint Inc

Upon the signing of the contract, we paid Dan $400.00. We were told he had a crew, and his references also referred to his "very professional crew". He started work the following week; showing up mid mornings, alone, and leaving before we got home from work. He said he had decided to paint our house himself. Each morning when he arrived, he would set up his equipment and then immediately leave to (a) go get paint, one gallon at a time (b) get some "pop" or (3) ask for a check and leave to, we assumed, go to the bank. Every night, my husband would look at the work done for the day, and each day we would find shoddy workmanship (missed areas, paint slopped over on trim, paint dripped on our brand new deck, etc.) When he was shown the missed spots and dripped paint, he would promise to fix it, and would; however he continued working in the same manner, missing more places, skipping a second coat behind bushes, and basically dripping paint everywhere he went. When he finished with the main part of the house, and started scraping, sanding and painting the trim, we stopped him as the work was worse than ever. He would begin painting an area and stop halfway through, with no apparent plan of attack. Two doors were painted while they were closed, painting only about a third of each door and leaving huge unpainted areas in the center where he was going to "come back and finish". The trim paint was now being dripped on the freshly painted siding. We finally just stopped him from painting anything further, and paid him for 3/4 of the total contract price, which was more than the value of the total work that he did. We are now getting estimates from companies to paint the trim..