David walked through the house with me on December 18 and said that it would take him a few days to get a complete estimate together for the inside of the house. He quoted $500 to cover the stain in the kitchen, move a light fixture and hang a ceiling fan, hang the microwave, and caulk the upstairs tub. He came and did the work on Dec 22. I had to ask him to come back and fix the ceiling job because you could see where there was speckling that was not smoothed out as well as paint that was too smooth. He said that he thought it was done, and he would come back on Dec 23 to finish, and at that time we could talk about the rest of the repairs. When he came, he had nothing to say about the rest of the repairs. On January 2, I still had no estimate for the rest, so I asked him if he had a quote for the rest of the inside work. On January 3, he said that he would get back to me the following day. He did not. I texted him on the 3rd to let him know that the ceiling also still did not blend. Five days later, he got back to me saying that he had had the flu, and he would get back to me the next day on the 10th. He did not. He also said that he would be by on the 11th to fix the ceiling again, and he did not show up. I left my door open all day, expecting that he would be there to do the work and lock up on his way out, as he did the first time. He did not show up. On January 16 he finally got back to me with an estimate for work on the roof leak, the fence gate, stairway, hall at the top of the stairway, and mudroom tiles, saying that he had been waiting for the snow to melt!!! I responded that the snow had nothing to do with it, I had been waiting for an inside estimate, it had been two days short of a month since he had walked through the house and the estimate included less than half of the inside work. I also told him that I had left my home unlocked all day on the 11th because he said that he was coming to do work and was a no show. His response was that he was giving me a great deal on the work that he quoted, I had asked him for an estimate on everything inside and out (I have texts to prove this is not true), I should have told him if I was leaving my door open, and most contractors would tell me to go pound salt. I told him that I had no idea if he was giving me a good deal because after a month of working on the ceiling stain it still did not look right. Also, I left the door open because that's how we did it the first time, and it's my understanding that whether someone is going to be home or not, you should call if your plans need to change and you are not coming. He knows that I have a job, so I must have been leaving the house unlocked- unless I wasn't supposed to believe him that he was coming??? I asked him to just finish the ceiling that I had already paid him for. It looks almost good now- some globs of paint in one small area, I am thinking about scraping off with a knife. Anyway, if you think that I am crazy and a month is a reasonable amount of time to wait for a partial estimate, and people are entitled to keep saying that they are going to do things and not doing them, then give this guy a call.