Mike Horton

Mike Did not fulfill his contract with me. He lied for Months and months and months stringing me a long but has not re-sanded and finished my upstairs or done the stairs. He did ruin what stairs I had and bailed on me. He's repeatedly lied to me whenever I've given him opportunities to fulfill his contract. DO NOT TRUST MIKE.

DO NOT USE MIKE HORTON for your hardwood floors. He changes his company name often but has used Interstate Hardwoods (a closed business) and more recently Arvada Hardwoods. He asks that all checks be made payable to him personally, not the business. He will ask for a large sum of money up front, then he will show up and every day will be a different excuse as to why he can't work. He never shows up when he says he's going to, which I was promised 8:45, 9:00 each day and he would show up in the afternoon. He also uses a generic blank invoice/contract/etc that has no company name on it that he fills in. That was a red flag to me but I was trusting. He currently drives a white E-250 Ford work van with temp tags and we found out that he did not have a valid license. The first two days nothing happened and each day was a different over the top excuse as to why he couldn't work. On the 3rd day I told him that I was very unhappy and this job had to get moving and he told me that he had locked his keys in his van and was waiting for a locksmith and when he got in his van he couldn't find the keys so he had to get his van re-keyed. Around 3:30 that afternoon he brought in a worker for about an hour and a half who started the demo job (remove carpet, tack strips and molding). This of course was to put us off and buy himself more time. Each day he kept saying he was going to go pick up the wood but no wood ever showed up. The 4th day he and his worker showed up around 1:00 and his worker finished demo until about 5:00. He told us he was going to pick up the wood AGAIN and we still have seen no wood. We started catching on that this was a scam and on the 5th day, we called him and put the heat on. He showed up that day around 3:30 in the afternoon and dropped off ONE BUNDLE of wood (I assume to make us think he was going to do the job). He told us a story that all of our wood was in one of his worker's vans that was a habitual traffic offender and that the worker had a traffic violation and was arrested and the van was impounded with our wood with no way for him to retrieve the wood since the van was not his. He would have to go through a police process by getting the case number, proving ownership of the wood, etc. He said he was going to borrow money from a local businessman who I will keep out of this review and that with that man's money he would go buy the wood for us. He had the worker lay out the wood in one of our rooms and told him NOT to nail it in. The worker was questioning this and even said that this wasn't right, when you install a floor you don't lay it all out first, you nail it down a row at a time, but that hye was following his directions. My bet is he was going to come back in and take back that wood since it wasn't nailed down (he had given us a key box so he could come and go as we weren't moved in yet). The next day (6th day on the job) we talked to him via phone and he said that he was unable to use the man's credit card when he tried to go pay for the wood and that he was waiting for the business man to drive to the floor retailer and get the wood. He did not come in to work this day. We told him that he had until noon on the seventh day (next day) to show up with all of our wood bundles that we paid for or we would seek alternative action and of course the 7th day came around and no wood. On the 7th day he showed up around 11:30 and had yet more excuses to TRY and buy himself time. He said he was going to and quot;workand quot; inside the house until the businessman could take a break from his tattoo parlor and go buy the wood for him. He brought the worker with him and the worker pulled me aside and told me that there was no wood, he said and quot;you are nice people.and quot; I was very thankful for that. There was never going to be wood. The worker told Mike he was uncomfortable and did not want to work this job and Mike was yelling at him and saying, and quot;shut up you work for me and I'm paying you.and quot; You could tell this worker knew what was really happening and was not comfortable with the situation. We called the police to get a third party involved to find out what we can do about our wood situation and they ran his info and he had two outstanding warrants, one for not appearing in court and one for theft, and he was arrested. His arrest had nothing to do with our wood floor situation as this will have to be dealt with in court but we were not shocked that he had a criminal record. I highly doubt we will ever see or hear from him again. We are out $4300 - he needed $2800 up front about 2 weeks prior to this job to and quot;get us on the calendarand quot; and we changed the scope and added $1500 of work and paid him that on the first day of the job. If you google and quot;Mike Hortonand quot; you will see a citywide search thread that has several people that have been stiffed by Mike Horton dating back to 2011 stating that he takes your money up front and either doesn't show up to finish work or disappears after a while. There are also identical posts on other review sites. There are also a couple of ads on craigslist that warn you about him but you have to google his name not the business name since that changes. This is not a one time scam, this is a pattern. My hope is that people see this BEFORE becoming his next victim and hopefully the courts will be able to stop him. He has taken THOUSANDS of dollars from people with this ongoing scam that has been going on for years. UPDATE: I just talked to someone else who was scammed by Mike and guess what...the story about the hardwoods being impounded in his worker's van is the same story he gave this guy back in October!!!! This man was taken for $1900 and Mike took the money and never showed back up and told him he was trying to get the wood but that it had been impounded. They have also verified that many of the flooring companies refuse to sell to Mike Horton because he owes them money. This man has to be stopped.

Mike Horton did not fulfill his contract with me and my husband. Horton did not provide the 7 risers specified in the contract. Additionally, Horton did not replace the threshold between the hall and bath that he removed. Finally, my dining room fixture was broken and Horton did not repair or pay for the replacement. Mike Horton was contacted by phone several times and informed of the aforementioned problems. Each time, Horton promised to 'make things right' - but he never showed up! As this refinishing was part of my fix-up efforts before placing my home on the market, Mike Horton really left me in a mess. Mike Horton is doing business as both Interstate Hardwoods and Interstate Custom Hardwoods.