POYATT PAINTING CONTRACTORS

We wanted to have our house painted, but wanted the stucco exterior repaired and uniform before spending the money to paint. Poyatt said he had a stucco expert and they could do the stucco repair and then paint. His stucco "expert" was never able to properly repair any of the stucco, but they went ahead and painted the house anyway (we were out of the country at the time). We gave him a second chance and asked if there was any material that could be applied to the stucco to make it uniform. He said 'yes' and that he needed $2500 to buy the special "sprayable stucco", and $1500 for the labor to apply it. He took the check for $4000 and did not come back. We checked with the company he was allegedly buying this product through, and they said there was no such product. I finally reached him by phone and told him that I would settle with him out of court if he returned $4700 of the $7700 he took from us in total. He agreed, signed a document, gave us one check for $800 and nothing else. When I called and said he still owed us more, he said "that's not his problem". Now that we're back in the US, we will be taking him to court. The next painter we hired was great to work with, and found that Poyatt's crew never scraped the house properly before painting and much of the paint fell off in large sheets. Poyatt appears to have hired unskilled labor and never supervised them, or didn't care what kind of work they did. They also oversprayed and ended up getting red paint all over the roof.

Started fine (1 day) and never came back...no calls/left msg/no word...they just had my 1st deposit.