COUNTRY CUSTOM HOMES INC

CJ (real name is Craig)  promises "quality" work  - and then delivers your worst contractor nightmare. We hired him  because he had been recommended by the loan officer at Farm Credit Services where we got the construction loan (we think he and the loan officer had something going on since the loan officer made excuses for him even when she had proof that he was lying - I also found out that he owed them a bunch of money so maybe she was trying to keep him in business so they could get repaid), but we found out about bankruptcies and a history of stiffing subcontractors AFTER things started to go bad. I could write a dissertation about this experience. Here's just some of the highlights: He was never around to check up on subcontractors (so did not catch mistakes early), he lost time and had to redo things because he did not know the codes for the county the house was being built in, he used his "crew"  (guys whom I'm guessing couldn't get hired anywhere else) for jobs that should have been subcontracted to professionals - e.g. he had them install the tile in the bathrooms and they left without cleaning up the grout, and then when they couldn't get all the dried grout off the tile, they put oil on it to try and make is disappear and blend in with the tile, the same crew drove spikes THROUGH the shingled roof to secure scaffolding supports, he sprayed more than $10,000 worth of high end windows without masking the glass or the sliding mechanisms- there was so much paint that you couldn't see out of them - then he scratched the glass trying to get the paint off, the job site was always filthy, his crew installed doors backwards, put trim up wrong, got paint overspray on expensive custom cabinetry I had ordered, and he didn't pay the subcontractors (we had them coming to us trying to get paid) even though he had signed papers when he got his draw at the bank saying everyone had been paid. In the end, we had to fire him before the extensive punch out list was completed, as he and his crew screwed up even more stuff trying to fix what was wrong in the first place.