Lester Edwards probably the worst fly by night scam artist of them all came in gave a great price did a bunch of demo and then disappeared off the face of the earth and only at the threat of a law suit he came out a second tome and layed my driveway that a week later the concrete guy that he hired came asking me to pay him. so i was left with a stripped garage and he took my garage door opener and door and most likely sold of scrapped it for money and never saw him again luckily i got my driveway done but the other concrete guy was left unpaid
Description of Work: wanted hime to change my garage to a bonus room and lay an extra driveway and build a shed for all the stuff in my garage.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
1.0
value
1.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
1.0
punctuality
1.0
$10,000
Monica K.
04/2011
1.0
roofing, siding
 + 0 more
Went from Great price not too high not the low one just in the middle to our nightmare!! so so sorry for my family and neighbors to have suffered at the hand of this POS!
Description of Work: Well, started great! Gave 1/2 down and then he was right there and on my roof ( hired for roof and siding) anywho, wowza I was new to construction and had not clue he was so believable I had been told I had roof rot, and the plywood needed to be replaced. He told me it was not something that can be cut out and stupid me I listened and paid 2,000 more to replace the plywood on my roof. He was to remove the plywood there AND DID NOT HE LAID PLYWOOD ON THE NOT ROTTED plywood and then busted my skylight and all sorts of things leaked BTW never leaked with the old roof just was old and I got a tax credit to pay for home improvements so that is what we did! WRONG we got screwed out of our money... He was to put a ridge cap in well put 4 diff ones and looked like mickey mouse on my roof.He blamed the workers and then came took them and never replaced, Nailed tar paper all over my home and wrecked my ceder siding BTW never had an issue just did not want to paint again ever so siding sounded great...WRONG..His employees came back and told me teh shingles were slolen from the big church on Hibbs road, he took my gutters to the recycle center and I still 2 years later dont have a proper roof, he never finished my siding that he was paid down payment for. lied and lied, we have him in court as does the town of Newport on my home...there is so much more but My roof leaked so bad I have had some issues by this and wowza learned a long val. lesson!! I met a young marine who had the same thing happen to him BUT he never got a new roof he striped his and that was that never came back, he did the house behind me and the place was condemed for adding a room that the roof could not hold, there is one in front of me that he did and put a room over the garage and again not called in an engineer and that one is in bad shape too... He has showed us a general contractors lic, and ins and they were both forges doc. as he is NOT a general cont. or have ins....He told us he was a army disabled war vet NOT TRUE never served, he has used his dead dads name, long history of this type of flim flam to people and guess to make it worse for us he moved in right behind me, I was told my a police friend and OMG had to see him all the time wanted to worng his neck...HAHA I saw him catting around to do work in our subdivision ( White Sands Newport) and went to the guy and showed him all the damage to my home...the guy did not listen and I have to laugh as he was warned!!!!! He tore off his roof, left and put tar paper on it and when we got the big storm last year ROTFL guess what...this guy now is upset he did not listen...He has thousands in damage over this jerk! To make it worse I learn all kinds of things on this jerk and he took a poor old 80 something lady in New Bern and painted cardboard copper and used as flashing on her home...well when the rains came...... Bottom line there is a special place in H*** for people like this, You have been warned please let others know also...BUT YOU DONT NEED TO WORRY TOO MUCH FOR NOW HE IS BACK IN PRISON :) where that dirt bag trash belongs!! Thief, lier, cheat
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
1.0
value
3.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
1.0
punctuality
1.0
$10,000
Tessa N.
05/2010
1.0
roofing, siding
 + 0 more
As I said my husband worked for him. At first it was great they worked long hours and got good pay. Then one payday Lester says "I cant pay you today, but I can pay you monday." That was a month ago, he still has not paid. Plus my husband went to a job they were supposed to finish, he went there to get his tools ( personal tools). The customer told my husband Lester picked them up. Lester told my husband he has his tools and will give them back again that was a month ago and we still dont have our tools.
Description of Work: My husband worked for this man. He saw first hand how he would start a job, work long enough to get a down payment on the job, then go to another job. He would leave these customers in the dark, coming up with excuses why he hasnt finished the job.
Rating Category
Rating out of 5
quality
1.0
value
1.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
1.0
punctuality
1.0
$1,000
Reggie P.
10/2009
1.0
roofing
 + -1 more
It took him 9 months to complete the job. He told me on many occassions they would be out but then wouldn't show up or call. After threatening to take him to court, they finally came out and completed the major part of the work. They did not add a chimney cap or wrap the front porch columns as contracted for. Much of the other work was very shoddy. I later foolishly agreed to lease him the same house. This lasted only about 6 months until I had to evict him for non payment of rent and dumping shingles and construction debris on the property. He stole personal property I left there in storage including a $750 generator, $469 fertilizer spreader, $550 log spliter, $250 dehumider, $279 extension ladder, $200 aluminum walk plank and a floor buffer. If it wasn't nailed down, he took it. Additionally, he had the electricity turned off without taking his food out of the refrigerator. He left trash all over the property and didn't repair anything he had broken. Through the help of the sherriffs department, he had the shingles and construction debris removed and I was re-imbursed for the generator and he replaced the walk plank. I was told the rest would have to be handled as a civil matter due to our landlord / tenant relationship. After I began having problems, I began doing some checking and found Lester Edwards is classified as a habitual felon in North Carolina. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1996 for numerous counts of property service cheats. He was released in 2006. His criminal record goes back to the early 1970's. He was arrested again in late Aug or early Sept but is out now on $43,500 bond, continuing to rip people off. If you would like to personally look at his criminal record, copy the following link and paste it as a URL. http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/offendersearch.do;jsessionid=B23B2C9E1A199545FA367AC66137E1FC.CRMIS75_423?method=list
Description of Work: I contracted Lester Edwards to replace shingle, tear off wood siding and replace with vinyl siding.
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Edwards & Sons Roofing and Home Improvements is currently rated 1 overall out of 5.
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