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"It started out good. In the beginning he was very helpful to me. I thought we had a pretty good working relationship. There were a couple of initial hiccups due to my flooring and granite contractor that caused him a couple of days delay. We had a 4-week contract requiring 4 weekly payments which I complied with; shortly after I paid the 4th payment he became very sick. Yes, it was my fault for making this last payment before he was finished but he had stated that he would be finished the next week and then his health issues took over and this stretched out to 2 months of me waiting for the work he started to be finished. Since I had paid him I was willing to give him time to come back. I thought I was very patient, at least for 2 months but his behavior started changing later in December and January. When he attempted to come back to work after 2 mths he hung 2 fans & a light and he then he requested 3/4s of the payment for a change he completed in September and then the next day he proceeded to remove all his tools and equipment from my house. I saw this on my security camera. When I called him about it he said he would come back the next day to work. The next day I was contacted by his girlfriend saying he had a relapse the night before and was back in the hospital. So after not hearing from him for over a week I tried reaching him but didn't get response so I contacted his girlfriend. That's when the no shows started happening. Several times he told me he would come and then would not show up and not contact me. There would be spans of a week or more before I would get responses from him and continued no shows. This man has left me with several thousand dollars of unfinished work that I am having to pay others to complete; I haven't had a master bathroom & closet or fireplace to use since early September; although I have requested them and he says he has them, he hasn't provided me with the receipts for the materials he bought with my money. I don't know if he under spent or overspent. The last time he came to the house in mid January at this advice of my attorney, I left him a written memo of the work status and items that needed correcting, brought up his lack of showing up when he said he would, not keeping me informed, giving the appearance of pulling out of the job and my stress over with the lack of progress after waiting 2 months for his return. His response was to walk off the job. He sent me a message that he understood my frustration and that we needed to discuss things. I made several attempts over the next 2 days to contact him in various ways so we could discuss but I believe he has me blocked and I haven't heard from him since Jan 14th. I'm writing this on Mar 1. I even cleaned up after him. I was left with heavy construction materials in the house and in my driveway that couldn't stay there indefinitely. I performed part of his contact. This constitutes theft of money for services not performed. Unfortunately, he has left me with no alternative but to file a suit against him for return of my money. Also he never provided proof of insurance as I requested several times. I regret hiring Mr. Vaughn."

"Pros: 1516’s workers and subcontractors did an outstanding job. They were super friendly and always asked us how things looked and even had inside jokes with my husband. We are so pleased with the look of our new patio. I would highly recommend Master Electric who was their electrical subcontractor. Very nice people and got their work done quickly! Cons: In short, we are extremely displeased with the owner, Erik, and how he treated us with disrespect, belittlement, and lack of professionalism. This is where the 1 star rating comes from. If you want more details, please continue reading below. Unfortunately, we did not feel this same way regarding the owner of 1516 (Erik). At our first meeting, everything went over smoothly. It was like the honeymoon phase of remodeling. I told him everything I wanted: new patio cover, privacy wall, and wrought iron fencing around the patio to keep the dogs in, and he said he could do it all! When we received the proposal, we noticed the measurements were off on the patio cover. All our other bids along with the plot survey said 16X20, but 1516’s stated it was a 16X17. Of course we brought this up to both Erik and his wife, Kris, because we didn’t want a short patio, especially since engineers get involved for the building. We begged Erik to come out and re-measure. He assured us his measurements were correct and he told my husband he didn’t trust other people’s measurements. After awhile, he finally agreed to come re-measure but told us that he would cover the cost if it was wrong since it was his mistake. We didn’t even ask him to cover the difference, so we were in shock but he assured us that the measurements were right. Sure enough, a week later he showed up and re-measured and he was wrong. It was 16X20. Sooo sorry for this novel but this is where we started being treated unfairly. Once the material was delivered for the cover, we started asking Erik for pictures of the privacy wall and wrought iron fencing that was going to be put in since no “specific details” were in the proposal regarding these two line items. He started getting very short with my husband, wouldn’t provide details, ignored his phone calls & texts, and would just show up without even letting us know he was here. I even called his wife, Kris, to ask if we had done something wrong and she said he was just stressed but loved working with us. He did ask us to pay extra for part of the privacy wall for materials, even though no details were specified in the proposal on what the wall would look like, what material would be used, height, etc. We were told that he had already estimated the cost of materials and labor and that our extra addition was not part of his plan. I was a little irritated because we were paying for this patio remodel, which I would think we would get to pick out what we want our patio to look like not him. As for the wrought iron fence, we had told him earlier on that it would need some type of dog barrier because we have a 10 lb dog that could easily fit thru. When we started suggesting ordering a custom fence, he threatened us that if we went custom, he would decline the fence portion of the job. The only reason why he accepted it was because we wanted the patio cover. We immediately just went with what was easier for him because we wanted the job done. On the last day of the patio cover remodel, we had asked Erik if he could have his guys come back out because 1) they had put footprints in the concrete parts around the columns and 2) our vinyl siding was missing J channeling on the new addition and didn’t flow well from the original part of the house. We also found out later that day that his workers had cut and capped the wires to our existing floodlight so it was no longer operational (Erik even confirmed this was true). A few hours after sending that text with the mistakes that should be fixed, we received an unpleasant text from Erik. He immediately rejected the fence portion of our proposal saying he was not doing it anymore, wanted the final check, and was done with us. He said we were super ungrateful because he had given us so much from quoting us a 16X17 patio, which was really a 16X20 patio, even though from the beginning, he said he would cover that measurement mistake. We had no idea that weeks down the road, this was going to bite us in the butt. We never once had asked him to cover it. He made that call. And we had no idea that asking his workers to come back to fix a few mistakes/errors was going to end in an uproar. He threatened us saying he was going to turn us in to a collection agency if we didn’t pay him the last check for the patio. We never once said we weren’t going to pay his workers for the outstanding job they did. He told us that our patio slab was already cracked and ugly so why would a few footprints matter. As for the J Channeling, he said the inspector didn’t say anything so we wasn’t going to cover that. And as for the floodlight, he wasn’t going to pay the electrician to come back out. Here is his exact response, “Partner, if you’re willing to pay the my standard rate of $40 a square ft on a 16X20, you can have me back for 1 whole day addressing every obstacle brought forward today: concrete, “c” flashings, & even flood lights not in my contract.” Erik was very disrespectful in every text message, belittled us, and reminded us how unimportant we were by constantly telling us he had bigger and more important jobs in the Seabrook area, like his $76,000 patio cover project plus that he made $4 million in sales last year, so he was pretty sure he knew what he was doing. It hurts my heart knowing that a company whose title is 1516 (after the Acts 1516 verse) could treat other people this way. My husband and I have saved copies of all the emails and text messages of Erik’s awful behavior. He wouldn’t answer his phone or come talk to us in person, but persisted that it be by text to record everything. His tone was scary, his words were hurtful, and there was no reasoning with him. My husband stayed very professional and respectful through the whole conversation and was still disrespected with every text that Erik sent back. We paid Erik for all the work his contractors & subcontractors completed, but were left with an incomplete patio project aka the wrought iron fence and the 3 mistakes we wanted fixed. We have had several projects completed on our home, such as, new plumbing, upgraded kitchen, drainage system, new floors, and much more, and have never dealt with someone like Erik."

"Very professional and nice crew! I highly recommend and would hire again!!"