Next Generation Construction

Jason Kippi F.

STAY AWAY!!! I would give 0 stars if possible. Noel Nunez (or Garcia depending on what app you use to pay him) STOLE $5,800 from us and we are now having to sue him. Do not believe a word he says, he lied to us from the beginning and is still lying today.
Long story, but you need to be warned!!! We were closing on a new home and we had several jobs we needed done on our new home before we moved in which was 4 weeks away. We first hired him to move a toilet. His ""specialty"" is allegedly bathroom renovations so we hired him to remodel 3 bathrooms. Then he bid on interior paint for the interior of our entire 5,000 sqft home. We were concerned if he had enough crew to do it all as with the timeline because we only had 4 weeks in our rental before we wanted to move in before the Christmas holiday. He said he had a ""paint crew"" so he said it would be a different crew painting than would be doing the remodels. Eric was his painter and Riccardo would be doing the bathrooms.
We then wanted to rip out the back porch and do a concrete patio which he bid on and we agreed and again had a ""separate crew"" for this part. Lastly, we wanted to add to our driveway which meant a retaining wall would need to go up and the concrete poured for the driveway as well as the back patio which we were also going to cover.
The work started and from the beginning, we should have fired him, but I believed his lies. Eric the painter, who had come by to do the initial quote, never showed up. It was the same guy doing the 3 bathrooms that was also trying to paint the entire house. THE VERY THING WE WANTED TO AVOID!
We asked, ""Where is Eric, where is the paint crew?"" He said ""They are coming tomorrow"" Well, a few people showed up, but Eric was nowhere. Turns out, Riccardo was hiring anyone he could find to come paint, many of whom had never painted before in their life. I don't just mean ""never painted professionally"", I mean literally never painted anything in their entire life.
You can imagine how terrible that turned out. Several rooms were painted the wrong sheen and the wrong color. Giant ""windows"" in the paint everywhere. The entire main floor (20 foot ceilings) had to be repainted because of this. We were using Sherwin Williams ""Agreeable gray"" at 70% and they could not figure out how to order it correctly, when you can walk into any SW store in America and get that exact paint by simply saying ""agreeable gray 70%"" in the correct sheen, but they didn't have the painter here, which ruined the job.
Noel told us the painters mom got sick, which turned out to be a lie. What he did was ""sell"" our paint job to Riccardo for some free puppies instead of paying the painter, Eric, who had come by to do the quote. He COMPLETELY LIED about this from the beginning. We learned this from Eric the painter himself. Noel even tried to get Eric to lie to us for him!!!
After the first two weeks or so when we had paid for a large portion of the job, Noel disappeared. He had one excuse after another for why he couldn't come by. His dog died, his truck broke, his trailer broke he got sick etc etc. He had our money and was hiding from us.
The work conditions were atrocious. You can see in the pictures that to call it a disaster is not stating it strongly enough. They treated our house like a construction zone. You can see the giant holes in the ""paper"" they put down to protect the floors but it had large gaps and tears. They didn't clean up after themselves ever. The floors ended up covered in paint and in removing it, their inexperienced team used kitchen scour pads to remove it which damaged the floors. The wood floors were ruined and we had to have them refinished.
The brand new $3k bathroom cabinets that we paid for outside of what we paid him for are ruined because of their sloppy work conditions. I could go on and on.
We finally got him to stop by weeks after we missed our deadline and tried to show him the conditions that we were unhappy with. He then proceeded to yell at my family from the top of his lungs to the point my children were frightened. He then stormed out of the house and slammed the door!!! He later apologized and said he would come by and apologize to the kids, but of course, we never saw him again.
After a month, there was still no concrete and our backyard was a disaster. We decided to not cover the back porch and only do the concrete. Eventually, Noel decided he did not want to do the concrete patio or the driveway so we decided to part ways.
Because we canceled about 20k worth of work between the covered patio and the driveway, we had overpaid Noel by $5,800 which he should have immediately refunded me. He REFUSED. I offered to settle for $3k and we could go our separate ways and he said he would only give me half my money if I agreed not to review him. I said if you don't want a review, then I will need my full $5800 refund. You don't get to steal my money AND tell me the terms by which you