Edwards & Sons Roofing and Home Improvements

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

 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!

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.

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