GM Construction

In the 3 months I was employed with gm I witnessed my trainers quiting, leaving a band of trainees working on a house we had no idea what we was doing. 2 months after my hire I completed my classes & returned to work only to have no supplies and no boss in sight. When we did have supplies, I remember the boss telling me to run weather installation rolls to the top floor to get them out of sight. Turns out that's not what the owner ordered. Scam!. After 3 weeks of no suplies & the home owner asking the trainees what's going on, I took some time off for health issues the I was co ered for & then the boss pop up and fire me for no reason. After a year of lies and fighting gm in unemployment court I won. p.s. Sorry for miss spells and typos. Old pda. Thx

We found this contractor on Service Magic.com, he is about 20 miles out of our area. Met with him and liked the young entrepreneur who wanted to get work. He talked a big game. One error we made- we did not have building plans, but he said he could build from the picture of a gambrel-roof barn we gave him. The ground-breaking went well. Building was shut down for lack of FEMA flood plain permit, which we didn't know we needed. Builder had not contacted the Inspector, so that did not go well. From then on, rain messed up the forms put in the ground for footers, builder said we wouldn't need footers, he went down to bedrock, and filled up plywood formed walls with cement, which ended up out of square and wavy on the sides. Walls on top of walls did not fit properly, so builder added cinder blocks in some areas, which are not caulked, and air can blow through. The crew showed up from 2-4 days a week, 10 am usually, not in a consistent timetable, no supervision mostly, 1-3 young hirees. Original completion date was November, and it was almost May when building appeared closed in. We had to change rental truck reservations 3 times in order to move our collectibles into a building that didn't have a front wall when we finally brought the inventory. We wanted to support this young man, and we ended up paying $40,000++ for a building that is not useable for the purpose we built it. We are very disheartened at this lack of professionalism and character. We are not taking action against him because we don't want him or his people on our property anymore. We can't believe they would fix anything which they did wrong in the first place. We made 3 errors here: not having drawings, not finding out about Permits needed, and not making him stop and having him start over when the footers were out of kilter. GM Construction and Gary McDowell can take responsibility for these problems with our building, but he doesn't. He does not call back, nor answer emails. and I assume that means he thinks he is done here. My only reason for reporting all of this on Angie's List is to prevent other homeowners from hiring this company.