KITCHEN CONCEPTS INC

This was the worst experience of my life. RUN; don't walk away from this unscrupulous, unlicensed contractor. The owner, Ralph Waisman, had every excuse in the book not to have the cabinets done by deadline. He blamed my salesman for taking too large a cut in my sale and his previous partner for "stealing" the rest of the money I paid. He whined constantly that he was doing my job for next to nothing and that he could just go bankrupt and not have to complete the job at all (yes, he actually told me this several times). Ralph constantly suggested if I just paid him more he might finish earlier (an absolute lie because at the 5 month mark after I paid and he pleaded for more money, I gave him 10 grand of business from my girlfriend so that he could use her money to complete my job. He actually (mostly) finished her job in three months and still did not begin my work until 4 months later (and only because I went crying to his office as my husband had contracted prostate cancer and this was all too much stress to endure). Ralph was forthcoming with me and every time, he was being sued he would tell me of his Court date. Ralph was incredibly arrogant. Ralph Waisman and his son Justin would lie nearly every week and say my cabinets were almost completed when they hadn't even been started. The majority of days he actually told me that he was showing up to start installation just to have me wait all day until he called at the end of the day to cancel due to some ridiculous lie. I waited over 300 days at home for cabinets that I was told were coming that morning only to be canceled the same afternoon. In actuality, Ralph did not even start construction of the kitchen cabinet boxes until 9 months after the down payment. Then, after tearing out the kitchen and making numerous damages, he left me with nothing in the kitchen for another two months. He didn't complete the roll out drawers for yet another two months and the kitchen doors didn't get completed for another two months more after that. A total of fifteen months after payment. My kitchen is not totally done yet as he never completed over the cook top or made a fruit stand I paid for. AFTER tear out, Ralph said he ran out of money to pay for the granite surface and the cook top that he was contracted to pay for due to tardiness (and no sink or cook top could be installed without some kind of surface). As my husband was getting out of surgery and I needed a kitchen to cook him three meals a day while he convalesced at home for a few months, I was basically forced to pay an extra $12,000.00 for granite and cook top just to get the kitchen started. I had no time to be surface shopping for something else. My husband was an invalid and needed me home 24/7. I had to buy what had already been chosen at a granite company months earlier and they had been holding the slabs all that time waiting for Ralph to pay. Finally, Ralph did not finish the work on the re-fronts until the 18 month mark. EVIL!