Jose A Rodriguez Painter

Jose and I had a disagreement. We did agree to 17,000 dollars for the “full exterior” ...however, this evidently didn’t include gutters for which he tried to charge an extra 1100 dollars. After this disagreement, I thought it was clear he would charge us by the hour, at 116 dollars per hour for him and his son. Evidently, when we asked for the number of hours worked, he said he was not working by the hour. I told him I thought he was dishonest. I was very angry.

Jose knew from the start that there would be much prep work with several new doors, texturing two walls, texturing three ceilings, primer paint new crown moldings, baseboards, and casings for the new doors and apply two coats of paint. On the first day, he wasted no time by complaining to my husband how much work prepping the ceiling was, and that he would need another $100 for work, and that he had no idea how much labor it was going to take?? The following days got worse and he continued to try and weasel us for more money as he was working in each room. He also dickered with my husband on how he would not paint the rest of dining area for 1 foot on a drywall that led into the kitchen. We had excluded the kitchen for paint work, so he was not going to do anything extra. Not even one foot. It did not make any sense that he refused to paint the rest of the wall to even out the color. He actually thought he would get away with this. My husband had to cancel a business trip, because If I had been left alone, he would have cheated me left and right. He also had issues with me being a woman, and did not respect me at all. He treated me like dirt by ignoring me, refused to even look at me. Every time I would try to talk to him or to ask him a question, he would just walk away. I had to get my husband involved so many times to speak on my behalf, it was like dealing with a 5 year old having a temper tantrum. On the third day and while Jose was working on the bedroom that needed two walls to be prepped and textured. I noticed he only did one wall and told me he would not do the other wall as we had agreed on. After he told me "NO" three times, Jose ran out of the house yelling "NO" and by the time he got to his car, he said he was going to quit. At that point, I told him to go ahead quit, and take your equipment and leave immediately. It took my husband over an hour to calm him down and insisted we had a contract and that he needed to do exactly as directed or we would take him to court for abandonment and shoddy work. When we interviewed Jose for the job, he told us he was going to supply us with a three man crew, but it only was two men, and some of their work was sloppy, poor job of cleaning up each day, and he had the gall to store his smelly chemicals of paint, thinners, brushes, with an industrial vacuum and ladders in the spare bedroom for first three days. We told him to use our garage for storage during his absence. Oddly enough; the first day and a Friday, I had offered him our garage for safe keeping, and he said "no thank you, not necessary". I said, "Ok" but I wasn't sure where he was going to store it all and I thought he would store it in his van. After he left the premises, I noticed he left it intentionally in one of the bedrooms, and he left all the doors off so we could smell it for hours and hours. I found three oily type stains on my carpet, and he denied his stuff did the damage on the carpet. I had a terrible headache for the first three days, and with Jose's bad attitude and bad business ethics, I was beside myself for the entire 9 days they were here. They also did not apply a second coat in the garage 1/2 bath. They used the rest of that paint ?Vanilla Ice Cream? by Benjamin Moore and applied the last of that paint color in a built-in shelf in a Den that does not match with the ceiling or brick wall was painted in ?Bavarian Cream?. He was instructed on paper to use ?Bavarian Cream? color for the shelf. After the fiasco on the two textured bedroom walls, Jose told my husband he would not have anything to do with me, and he refused to look at me nor would he answer my questions. He did not do the walls as I originally ask him to apply joint compound, but instead he made the decision to texture the two walls. He over textured one wall, and under textured the second wall in the same room. It?s noticeable and we?re extremely disappointed. Now I have to hire another painting contractor to fix or repair what he was unable to do. Jose is an unprofessional businessman. He?s a s***** and a creep. If you ever come across a man named Jose Rodriguez and wants to paint your house? just say "No Way Jose" and dump him like a "Hot Potato" and run.

Painter always arrived on-time, was approriately dressed in white uniform, made clear what he would do, immediately went to work, did not waste time talking or doing personal business on the phone, and cleaned up everything on completion. His hourly rate was reasonable, he used very expensive materials, completely detailed every aspect of the job which consumed many hours and made his work expensive.