Martin'S Magical Makeovers

Description of Work: We are getting ready to sell our home. We had several drywall repairs and a ceiling that needed to be painted. Martin got the work done quickly and his price was very reasonable.

Description of Work: Martin Williams no longer advertises his company MARTIN'S MAGICAL MAKEOVERS, in the Service Directory of our local newspaper, THE NEWS ENTERPRISE. He never responded to my phone calls and messages left in regards to money I had to pay out for unfinished work and the rope lighting his worked damaged when painting. I don't know if he has discontinued his home remodeling business, goes by a different name or just gets work by "word of mouth." Regardless, if you sign a contract with this man, MAKE SURE EVERYTHING YOU AGREE TO IN THE CONTRACT IS SPELLED OUT IN PRECISE TERMS, EXACTLY WHAT WORK IS TO BE PERFORMED BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, he might cheat you like he did me. As far as I am concerned, Martin Williams, his unadvertised Martin's Magical Makeovers or any other company he might be involved with, WILL NEVER WORK AGAIN ON MY HOME, N-E-V-E-R! Beware of this individual if you decide to use his services, I consider him untrustworthy and would never hire him again.

Description of Work: Martin's Magical Makeovers is owned by Martin Williams in Elizabethtown, Ky, 42701. He was NOT truthful from the very start of our relationship, as he said he did all the work himself, but that did turn out to be "blessing in disguise" because the person he sub-contracted the work out to, Mr. Ben Jarboe, did an excellent job on painting our home. What work Martin Williams did was average to sub-par at best. He, Martin Williams, went out of his way to make sure we had the money to pay him when he was "supposedly" close to finishing the job and when we paid in full, he left our project, UNFINISHED, and we NEVER heard from him again. He has failed to return approximately four calls to his cell phone listed for this business. He painted our front door, poor job, didn't use a drop cloth and got paint on the floor, brush streaks and failed to fill in several gouges where rust had developed. He slapped the paint on as he was in a hurry because he had been paid and wanted to get going. He put in an outside water spigot which was leaking, access was inside of our home, he failed to move the furniture back and failed to caulk around the spigot outside. When he first gave us an estimate we wanted a sodium vapor light installed on the left side of our home and he stated that would be NO PROBLEM so we purchased the light. When it came time to install the light at the end of his painting, he said there were no connections in which to hook up the light so it was not completed. We have a hot tub room which is screened in and we wanted the sections of screening framed to make the screen areas smaller which he agreed to do. When I mentioned that to him when he was putting up the framing and lattice work, he said that was not part of the deal and didn't do the work. He left trash in our yard, old pieces of wood and upc codes from the lumber we purchased which I had to pick up. As I stated above, he got his money Friday, August 5th, 2011 and said the job would be completed by Monday, August 8th, 2011 but when Monday came and went, Martin Williams never came back and took his worker off of the job to help him with other projects he had contracted for with other customers. After a week and several calls to him with no reply, we appealed to Mr. Ben Jarboe, his worker and Mr. Jarboe came over on a Sunday, his day off, to finish the work. We felt bad for Mr. Jarboe as he was "left holding the bag" for Martin Williams, owner of Martin's Magical Makeovers, so we paid Mr. Jarboe $12 an hour for 2 1/2 hours of work he performed that should have been completed a week ago. Anytime we asked Martin Williams to do something for us that was NOT in our CONTRACT, we told him to add the extra to our invoice as we would NEVER try to "nickel and dime" anybody to get something for nothing. We NEVER tried to take advantage of him but he sure took advantage of us. He left our hot tub room filthy and that was part of the work we paid Mr. Jarboe for to clean up the mess. Martin Williams has catchy sayings on his business card but has no stationary address and only uses a cell phone as a way of contacting him if problems arise. We had also asked to put up a small piece of lattice in the hot tub room that was NOT initially discussed which we would pay him, I went and picked up the piece of lattice and two pieces of framing lumber and he has refused to reimburse me for those items. I would NEVER hire MARTIN'S MAGICAL MAKEOVERS owned by MR. MARTIN WILLIAMS again, it was an unpleasant experience dealing with this man personally. Oh, he also had a young lady painting for him and when she painted our hot tub room and around the "rope lights" we had strung around the perimeter, which were all working before, only one rope light was working partially when she finished. I had to throw in the trash four (4) sets of rope lights which MR. MARTIN WILLIAMS never answered my repeated phone calls about this problem.