Jim Williams & Sons Surplus

Jim, replaced a blower motor in my A/C and recharged the freon for $280, which I thought was a very good price. I mentioned to him that I had to have water lines replaced in my basement, basically copper drain and supply lines. The estimates was $1,000, again a great price. I paid him $250 to start to get the supply lines in place, than another $250 before the drain lines went up. He told me that he was going to have both sets ready and then remove the old lines and hook up the new lines all in the same day. He was going to originally take a full day to do the job, but said he had to break it up into three days since there was a family illness and some other jobs work backing up. However, he never came back to hang the drain lines and after repeated calls, discussions, messages and missed appointments, I am out the $500. However, the supply lines are hung, so there was some work completed. I even told him to send back $250 since he did do some work and gave me a very cheap deal on the A/C fix, but he then made more promises - all broken - and then ignored any correspondence. He must have been up to 10+ no shows, many times without any call saying he would not make it. He was always full of excuses. He is obviously a man with many issues, none good. I do forgive him as I think there may be deeper problems than I wanted to get into, so I broke off contact. I would avoid this contractor like the plague, he just can not be trusted and, in my opinion, is a criminal. I do hope he can get his life in order. He is in way over his head.