F 7 DEVELOPMENT INC

James Montague, Jr. didn't know which way to turn. There was no plan of action and they worked in a helter skelter fashion. They all but deconstructed my home (in a bad way). Their roofers left debris around my home because they never thought it important to use a drop cloth so I stepped on a couple of roof nails. I had to clean up after them. They stole my perfectly good HVAC unit without my permission they removed it under the auspices that I now have a ten year warranty (for a lesser, obviously cheap unit) albeit, new. This current unit does not compare to the one that I had. I purchased paint almost $500 worth in which one of their workers recklessly slapped on my walls and (crown molding) so that the paint job (for lack of a better description) looked like Tom Sawyer white washing a fence. They used cheap contractors whose work was at best description -shoddy. When I expressed my concerns, Wonza Montague (Supervisor/James' wife) stated that I did not have a right to call anyone's work shoddy. I had to tell her that as a homeowner, that I had every right to express my concern over how my house was being treated. I say this because the bank wants a home to appreciate, F7 Development's recklessness depreciated my home's value. Now I have had professional contractors who come in and wonder who did this and could this person who disrespected my home, my time, my money, and my effort really be a general contractor. PLEASE PEOPLE DO NOT LET THEIR TITLES FOOL YOU. THIS IS A SITUATION OF LIPSTICK ON A PIG AND CASTING YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. JAMES MONTAGUE HAS NO BUSINESS CALLING HIMSELF A GENERAL CONTRACTOR LET ALONE HAVE THE AUDACITY TO PASS HIMSELF OFF AS A PROFESSIONAL. I am finding out that HIS PRIMARY BUSINESS IS HAIRDRESSING. YES, HAIRDRESSING! I use caps so that you are fully aware, no yelling intended. On Friday, June 20, 2014 the last straw was the amount of paint that they wasted using the paint in the wrong rooms even though I had corresponded the right gallons of paint for each room. I came home to see that they had dropped their paint brushes and rollers in wells of paint wasting away as it had been the day before when I complained to Wonza about her worker leaving my paint open and allowing a $112.50 five gallon bucket of paint to be exposed to the hot elements, therefore degrading the paint. Her response was that her insurance would pay for it, she offered no apologies. They took my $15,000.00 (half of the draw from the bank), got cheap, unskilled labor who they paid in pennies, and absconded with the bulk of the money and my HVAC unit. They also could not account for my antique weathervane and I have found in their wake, broken glasses on my door, missing equipment that I had purchased. I have lost days of work because of this. The bank performed an exit report because these jacklegs stated that they had performed 75% of the work. The bank at this date, determined that they had only muddled through with 23% of the work. James Montague threatened to put a mechanics lien on my home before I could even move in, despite the fact that he's only done 23% of the work and has 50% of my renovation loan! When I expressed my outrage that Friday evening, his wife feigned as if she could not hear me. I told her that if she could not hear my voice, then she would read my words. Throughout this nightmare, I tried to be fair, I tried to be understanding. My advice to you all is if it does not feel right from the start, it is not going to be right in the middle or the end. The insult to injury is that Wonza Montague called the Sheriff's Office on me with a bogus lie that I threatened her. The Sheriff's Office would not get involved citing this to be a civil matter. She did this so that I would not be able to call them regarding my money that had been taken. Wonza has a track record of calling the Sheriff's Office on a person if they ask too many questions. One of their subcontractors blew the whistle on them and told me that he could not continue to work for the Montagues because of their lack of integrity. They worked this guy weary and then fired him. When he called them and asked to collect his equipment, Wonza threatened to call the Sheriff's Office on him. I alerted the bank to state that I believed their work to be fraudulent and that I had been defrauded. James Montague HACKED OFF MY EXISTING DECK AND 6 WEEKS LATER THERE IS A GAPING HOLE WHERE MY DECK SHOULD BE because it appeared that he did not know how to build a deck. They installed poor quality railing that they tried to pass off as wrought iron. I had a pro that has been in the business for almost 20 years to assess how much I would have to pay for new wrought iron railings. This gentleman became upset and asked if he could take pictures because it was one of the worse cases that he'd ever seen. My fencing leading to my front door, looks as if I am on my way to jail. They did not consult with me, they sought the lowest bidder for the subcontracting job and did not bother to ask me what I envisioned for the showcase of my exterior home - my staircase. On Friday, June 20, 2014, Wonza Montague called the bank to remove her company from the job. I believe that they pulled out because they wanted to keep the rest of this money and not have to pay to replace my deck. I am now, to date, searching for reputable, licensed and insured contractors to complete the jobs. PLEASE FOLLOW THROUGH, DO YOUR HOMEWORK PEOPLE BECAUSE YOUR OPINION COUNTS JUST LIKE YOUR MONEY! F7 DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE RENAMED AS F* DEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE IF YOU GET THEM YOU WILL BE TOTALLY SCREWED!!! In conclusion my sister upon walking through their devastation made the comment, "They treated your house like they are slumlords and your are their tenant!" I hope that this illustrates my point to you all. I cannot go on and on but what I can tell you that this description merely scratches the surface to their ineptitude!