Jason Allen Contracting

We are not the type of people who leave negative reviews, and this isn't meant to be negative. Hopefully it'll be helpful to Jason's work with future clients. Jason is highly skilled and does great work at a fair price. However, our experience working with him was often confounding and, at it's worst, totally exasperating. Jason appears to be allergic to committing to being anywhere at a given day or time. We spent all of last summer attempting to track him down, e mailing, calling to keep our project on track. We initially contacted Jason in late June, and the project was not completed until October. Even at that one item was left uncompleted, as we had to preserve our sanity and  move on.
Jason subbed out parts of the scope that were initially his without informing us, and failed to communicate with us or the painting contractor regarding his schedule. In the end, I wound up having to schedule the painting crew directly b/c Jason was frequently AWOL or would not commit to any particular day. This made it challenging to stage the work, and generally stressful. If you are comfortable with that sort of behavior, you will get a job well done at a solid price. When we hired him as a general contractor, he lead us to believe he would be more responsive, would handle all scheduling and staging of the project and would be onsite to check on the work. One small twist is that I have a relative who lives in an adjacent lot to his home address, so we were aware of when he was not being forthright about his  schedule being tight as we knew he was at his own house! Most people think of a schedule as being a series of commitments to be in a place at a given day and time. We will never know what exactly that word means for Jason. Months later he contacted us not to see how the house was doing, but to shake us down for partial payment on a task he never completed despite us giving him months to do so. We again asked him to come back and finish his work, he again pulled the routine of saying "yes," then not responding to multiple e mails asking when he would like to come by. Not sure what else to say, he is not a bad person, the work that was completed was solid and professional. You will get quality work at a good price, but you may not get the time of day or an honest response when you try to figure out when (or if) he intends to show up.  

Jason and his partner on time, professional and did excellent work.
His bid was spot on.
I would highly recommend him.