Kingston Enterprises

I hope I learned my lesson on this one. I blame myself, I got snowed on this one.

AWFUL!! DO NOT USE THIS BUSINESS EVER!

Terrible....These people are con artist and thieves!!

He was prompt with the quote, reasonable with the price. His team is great!! They are courteous, worked very hard and cleaned the area well when they were done. The work took a alittle longer than I had hoped, but overall, I was very happy with the way the room looked when they were done---clean, fresh and inviting. I have since hired him for additional work in my house.

.I was extremely impressed with the time it took to do the work. They worked with me on the price.

It took them two and a half weeks to put our window in. It should only take about two days to put in windows. It took them three different guys to try and figure out how to put that window in the new cutout. His supervisor was hardly there and when he was he would loudly complain about how he wasn't getting paid and the others were slowing down the job. Meanwhile he is always late and smells like marijuana. They did a horrible job on the windows. The calk on all the windows inside have all cracked and it looks horrible. We now are going to have to recalk every window inside and paint it ourselves. These fools used our tools, broke our saw and even took tools that belong to us. If we hadn't have let them use our tools our project would have been stalled. They had two guys in our garage reading a How to Do Siding book. They ripped our the old siding and the old insulation instead of jus putting the new insulation over the old. They should have done it that way to save time and to give our has extra insulation. Finally the supervisor shows up with one guy and we have had enough at this point and threatened to sue and to call a news crew out. The supervisor then procedes to walk off the jobsite. Tony then has to scramble to find someone to come out to try and finish our job. We had bought a new front door for over seven hundred dollars and it still isn't installed correctly and they scratched it all up. The new crew that he subcontracted was telling stories about all the other horrible work he knows that this company has done. They don't know how to measure properly. Tony measured our shutters twice and still got the wrong shutter size for our front window. The big picture window was the last to be done. They put it in and left for the weekend with barely any insulation surrounding it. We froze that weekend since it happedend to get down in the thirties. They only thing that was done right was the gutters and that is because he hired a gutter company to put it up. Tony would give us excuse after excuse and even had the balls to ask us to pay for the rest of the window job before it was even finished. Do yourself a favor and don't ever call this company for anything EVER!

Tony first came over and sat with us to discuss putting stone up to cover some unsightly black waterproofing that was around the basement area. We have a walkout basement and wanted this to look better to sell our house. We saw a commercial on TV and thought Kingsmen seemed like an established company that obviously knew what they were doing. After speaking with Tony and his decorator/designer person that he brought with him, we wanted to proceed with our project. This second person is no longer with the company and we never saw her again. Replaced with another. He seemed to really care about the Michigan economy, saying they were keeping everything in Michigan to help rebuild. The company even had a bible verse quoted on the hat Tony was wearing.It ended up being better for us to just forget about the stonework and opted to replace the siding on the whole house and extend it to drop all the way to the ground to cover our problem. We then decided that gutters would be done too. We explained to them that we wanted to wait til our tax return was here before work started. Tony told us that this would be ok, but we should have him buy the supplies now to get them at the current price and then they would save for our project. We signed our contract and began. This was Feb 16,2011.We ended up getting our tax return in May 2011. We contacted Tony and the work was supposed to start the beginning of June. We were also told they had to reorder our siding because after so long they return it. This really upset us since we had the conversation with Tony in which he told us to order early. Because this happened we started really having second thoughts about this company because Tony seemed to us such a smooth talker. No matter what question we asked there was always a lengthy answer/ excuse. We even tryed to get out of our contract, but it would have costed us too much. ( in retrospect we should have). Tony assured us that we would be beyond happy with the work.We kept calling Tony to see what the issue was. Tony was next to impossible to get hold of. Never in the office, never answering the phone. He would call us eventually to "explain" everything. At one point he even left a message on voicemail basically saying that we were being too hasty. He was doing everything he can. He had a huge project going on in Okemos, and because that was bigger our project would have to wait.Our project started soon after. The siding people came out. We walked the house with the lead siding person. He stated that Tony did not tell him about our project. They listened to us and started work. We were surprised by the fact that they had been subcontracted. We were also surprised to find that a permit was never pulled to do this project, which the city was quick to point out. Again Tony not available. The subcontractors delt with this for us.During this Tony had said that the color gutters we had ordered was on back order. This surprised us again because we wanted white. We never asked to have them the same color of the siding. During this whorl gutter wait time with Tony a man comes up to us from the gutter company, which is also subcontracted! He sakes us which color gutters we wanted. This was amazing to us since the one of the reasons our project didnt start on time, along with the returned siding and the huge other project in Okemos, was our gutter was on back order. This man told me that any color was available and we can start. All they needed was for us to pick a color.There were a few problems with the work, but each one pointed out and quickly delt with through the siding foreman. He took care of every concern quickly. Tony hardly ever called and was very difficult to contact, even for these subcontractors.In the end we were happy with the look of our house. We weren't beyond happy,but it looked good. Work was finally done after about a month. This job took forever. Wanting it all behind us we arranged for a rep for Kingsmen Construction to pick our check up. This happened 8/26/2011.That's not all! In October 2011, we get a notice of lien. Wimsatt building supplies, the people who supplied the Kingsmen subcontractors, filed this because they were not payed. This surprised us since we PAID Kingsmen. We call Wimsatt and confirm. We then go to Kingsmen after not being able to contact Tony. Tony's wife tells us they have tried calling and paying the bill and they won't let Kingsmen pay. She said they pay there bills and are not lying to us. This lien means nothing and will be taken care of. After heated debate we shook and left not knowing what to believe.The next day Tony calls us. He stated that he did know this was going to happen, our money is in an account. He is not paying the siding people until they agree on a price for labor. This should have been done before our contract. Our contract gave us an amount which is what we are supposed to be responsible for. Extra is supposed to be between them. That's what contracts are for.Well, as of Nov 14, 2011 we now have a second lien. This one from the gutter people. We are trying to deal with both now.Seriously, the worst mistake ever!Trying to rebuild Michigan with 2 liens and possibl foreclosuresGo Kingsmen!

We tried to get a quote for the roofing and siding. Tony came out, seemed very nice and thorough. He said he would get the written estimate to us in 3 days. Eight days later we still hadn't received the quote. I called and was told they were waiting for the price increases to come through, and that we could expect it in the mail in the next couple of days. It didn't come. So on the 12th day I called and said we still hadn't received the quote. I was told they were so busy, but that Tony would contact me that night. Tony didn't call. By the 14th day we still hadn't receiv ed the quote. I called them and told them to forget it. If they were that unresponsive in just getting me the quote, I knew trying to get the job done right would be a challenge.