ansel remodeling

This guy would always promised he was coming would never show up would show up at 2:30 in the afternoon and leave at 5 always on his cell phone never focused on the job very poor quality of work never finished the work and ran off with all our money refuse to answer texts and finish this job took our $8,000 and ran

Ansel Suddeth the owner of Ansel's Remodeling was referred to me by a friend. She spoke very highly of him so we asked him to come hang a light. He was very responsive, showed up when he said he would. He even came on a Sunday morning. We were impressed. While hanging the light he dropped one of the glass globes. We understand that things happen so we did not get upset, we figured we could order a new one. After Ansel hung the light partially we decided it was too small and told ansel to leave it up for now but we would be ordering a new one. We still paid him $75. At the time he was at our house we asked him if he could repair some drywall on the patio. He gave us a detailed description of what he would do and what the cost would be. He called us numerous times to see if he could do the drywall work. We decided to hire him. He came on a friday and did part of the work. The next morning he was to return and finish the job. He asked us to leave him a check since he would be finishing that day. We had no reason to believe he would not finish and do a good job. When my husband came home that day, the job was not finished and Ansel had taken the check. Over the next week my husband called and text Ansel to find out when he would be back. He first said he had the flu and then Pneumonia. We were patient because we believed him. Ansel came back on the following Friday to finish. When we got home we were so disappointed. There was paint all over the driveway and the mailbox and the plants. He obviously spilled the paint. The job he did on the patio ceiling was terrible. He did not do it properly and he only painted the section he repaired. When we hired him he said he was going to paint the whole patio ceiling. If he had not included that in his proposal we would not have paid $370 for a 3x3 section of drywall. We called him back and he said he was at the store getting something to remove the spilled paint and he would be back. He never came back. At that point I made a complaint with the BBB. Through texting he said he would come back the next day and clean up the paint and fix the ceiling. My husband spoke with him on the phone as well. Late that evening I received 3 text from Ansel telling me to not be disrespectful to him and he is not my servant. It was so strange and mind boggling because he was putting blame on us and we had not done anything. It was very bazaar behavior. I explained to him I have never been disrespectful or said anything disrespectful to him and all I wanted him to do is fix the job and clean up the paint. He continued to text me about respecting him. He was supposed to show up for the 3rd time to finish, fix and clean up the job. He never came. I text him again and told him he was unprofessional and a liar. I did not get a response back. Ansel is very responsive to get the job but then once he starts he is flakey, unprofessional and does not communicate. His work is terrible. I wish I could post pictures. It is almost comical. Not only is his work bad, I felt very uncomfortable with him coming to my house and frankly unsafe. The way he text me and the things he said were very aggressive and intimidating. I would never recommend Ansel and I for sure would not recommend him. He is a charmer at first but then he turns into a very unprofessional contractor.