ED BROOKS PAINTING CO

He said he would fix the peeling paint on the exterior(see above "services performed") and never showed up. I continued to call him at home and business for 5 months(over 25 phone calls) and he never returned a call. I am now in the process of taking him to Court to recover damages.  Ed Brooks showed up in May 2011 and scraped and primed the house (with a different
color) then disappeared again.  He left the house in a state of disrepair and unfinished.  He promised on multiple occasions that
he would finish the job- painting and replacing shutters and downspouts, but never showed up.  I had to paint the front
of the house myself this week (Nov. 6, 2011) because it looked so bad and my renters were expecting it to be completed by Sept.
The remaining 3 sides of the house are still unpainted and I am taking Ed Brooks to court to recover my cost.  I am hoping to
hire other painters in the spring to finish the job.  Ed Brooks is not a man of his word and I am amazed he can run a business by lying to his customers and taking advantage of people.  

I have gave him a $2,000 deposit, but he never showed up to do the work. He said he had to leave town. I was never contacted and could not get a hold of him for 5 days. He was messing up my schedule and arrived 2 hours late when he finally did come. I filed a case in small claims court and he didn't even show up for that.