Oakhurst Builders Inc

Description of Work: I use to be in the construction business. My wing man in the business was stolen away from me by the current owners of Oakhurst Builders...which also use to be my accountant. The wife of the owner ran an accounting business right next door to my office. I was a client of hers. After my accountant and my partner got to talking, my partner decided to leave my business and start up Oakhurst Builders with my accountant and her husband (which was an out of work construction guy). My accountant knew the struggles I was going through and knew that taking him away from me would surly lead to the closing of my business. Good ethics coming from a CPA. I also hear that they are forcing out a partner in the accounting firm in order to move Oakhurst Builders into the office. These people are sneaky and unethical. They should not be trusted to perform service on anyone's property. Taking into account how they run their business, they clearly do not care for anything other than their pocket books. Word has it that they do allot of installation work for Lowes. I'm inclined to start shopping at Home Depot because it disgust me to think that Lowes would have anything to do with these people. BEWARE!!

Description of Work: This story is just too amazing not to pass along. I can't imagine doing business with this company ever. Oakhurst Builders offered a Groupon to have a room painted. I bought the Groupon but knew that I wanted to have the trim painted as part of the project, which was not covered by the terms of the Groupon. So i contacted the company and told them what I wanted to do. The guy said no problem and he came to my house to look at the additional work. He quoted me a price for the extra work which I agreed to pay without negotiation. We also picked a day and made an appointment for when he was going to have someone show up and start the work. The day he wanted to do it, I needed to be out of the house in the afternoon, so we agreed to start at 9 so that the project could easily be completed by when I had to leave. (it was only a small bathroom, so they didn't need all day). He also said that he would show up in the morning with the painter to review the extra work to be done since it was beyond the normal services associated with the Groupon. Well, no one showed up on the day the job was supposed to be done. I waited until 10 am (an hour past our agreed start time) and called the office. The woman I spoke to was very nice and she tracked him down and he called me right away. He admitted to having made a mistake with the start time of the job (he wrote 10am on the work order) but that the painter should be along at any moment. Indeed at this moment the painter pulled into my driveway. Alone. Not accompanied by himself as he had said he would be to get the job started off on the right foot. I said that I was sorry but that I couldn't have him start the work (i was worried he wouldn't finish by the time i had to leave my house...remember he knew about all this and AGREED to it in person when at my house to give me a price), and I asked who from his company would be calling me to reschedule. Well, that clearly made him mad as h***. He got very defensive and said that an hour in his business really didn't count as being late. When I refreshed his memory about why I was so concerned about the timing he basically told me that he didn't want this work and that I should call Groupon to get my money back. I guess that is his prerogative, but I didn't force this man to agree to any of this. He could have said no to the extra work, he could have also asked me to pick a day when I had a more flexible schedule. But he didn't. Interestingly, most companies issue groupons to meet new customers. I guess he'll miss out on the chance to do my full kitchen renovation in the spring. I feel so strongly about this, that no only did I take the time to write this all up, but I also had to ADD this company to Angie's List. They weren't yet part of the directory. I really hope anyone who considers doing business with this man realizes that he doesn't place any importance on being on time, doing what he said he would do, and he really doesn't care if you are his customer or not. Thanks for reading.