Ya know, its very hard to rationalize an irrational act. To try and apply common sense and logic to someone who's being totally illogical and unreasonable, doing things out of the normal realms of reality that we live in. So responding to this review would be trying to do exactly that. However, I feel as though my hands are tied and my reputation being falsely slandered, so I MUST respond with a lengthy reply regardless. I am sorry for all the words! There is no way for me to be able to portray just what an absolute nightmare and horrible situation this was with this customer and I am not trying to create drama. The truth of the matter is this and I apologize ahead of time for these words, but I just honestly dont know a more diplomatic way of putting it or a more polite way of saying it, when its to the very "Twilight Zone" extremes as this customers behavior was. But she has some major issues. I mean in all honestly, shes just not right in the head. And come to find out (this all occurred well over 6 months ago) we're not the only company that's experienced these issues with her. The previous company she also fired went through this with her AND she fired the company that came in after us to finish the job that we were doing. The new company was not only fired but she stiffed them as well refusing to pay them. BTW, She ONLY paid us $2,500, not the stated $6,000 and that is a perfect example of the things we dealt with concerning her. Some things are a gross exaggeration. Other things are a gross fabrication. We pride ourselves on giving world-class service and catering to the most finicky people on earth. But I have NEVER dealt with an individual like this. Her actions were so utterly and ridiculously bizarre, so irrational and illogical in nature, that there left no doubt she has some issues. But if anybody doubts those words then you only have to ask yourself this? Why would a company that's been on Angie's List longer than any other plumbing company, 9 years, a company that has more reviews than any other plumbing company, 500 plus reviews, a company that has won the Super Service Award every single year we have been on Angie's List, 9 years in a row, a company with such an impeccable reputation and unheard of rating that's second to none, suddenly and mysteriously, out of the blue, out of left field, just randomly decide to stick it to a customer knowing in advance she is an Angie's list customer and will leave us a scathing review? No one can touch our level of CONSISTENT excellence! No one. For almost a straight decade, we have received MORE reviews as well as the HIGHEST RATED reviews on ANY plumbing company in Charleston. Perhaps ANY company in Charleston. And that shows we care, so why would we suddenly not care? We shouldn't. We wouldn't. We didn't. Truth is we tried SO hard to please her, but there was just no dealing with her! Many different individuals tried everything in the world to bust through her wall of ridiculousness by the time it got to me and there was just absolutely no rationalizing with this customer. There was nothing that could be done. A fraudulent list of complaints and supposed damages we caused (impossible to have caused the damages she says we caused) seeking remedies simply absurd, and there was just no coming to terms with her. I say supposed damages because at NO time after the SECOND day on a 10 day long job, did she let us back out to view these damages! That's right. She fired us on day TWO during the demo stage, refused to let us back in to inspect and verify these damages, fix and repair these damages, just simply demanded that I "blindly send her money" to cover them? What? Sorry, I will bend backwards to please my customers but I'm not stupid either. And this list? OMG! Never in my life. Things like her lampshade in her upstairs bedroom? (we were renovating the downstairs bathroom on another side of the house) Cracks in the ENTIRE home were all made by us. Her home ([Removed Member Information]) is over 100 years old with plastered walls and ceilings. She was banking on our impeccable reputation and my willingness to please to try and take advantage of us for conditions that were either pre-existing WELL before we started this project, or never existed to begin with and was simply trying to extort money from us. Not sure which one because she has yet to let us back to see these damages OR supply pictures of the items on her list.. To further prove that point, in either scenario, she tried to get the company who came in AFTER us to either repair them for free also, or to reimburse her the monetary value of fixing them, now claiming that THEY caused those same cracks! She would text me at all hours of the night, all weekend long (75 plus texts) with the same old list of complaints, demanding money. And every single time for two solid weeks I replied: "Ok great, now again, you claim you have a list of damages to your house, are you going to give us the opportunity to go back out and actually look at, verify and document those items on this list, and let us address these so called damages? NO! You can never come back out to my house. Which is what leads me to believe the list is fraudulent. Worse? OK, how about pictures? You have a smart phone, why don't you take pictures of everything and send them to me? Absolutely not!! I just want my $2500 back in exchange for the damages you did. Asking for your money back when the work performed was shoddy is one thing, asking for it back before we have even commenced with the work and was doing the initial demo??? Oh and by the way. This is Louie, the original owner and STILL the owner of Servant Plumbing, so this sale or transition or whatever it is she claims that's anybody's guess, is fraudulent as well. The project: This was a 7-10 day project that started with the demolition of an existing standup tiled shower and we only got through day TWO of the demolition. The demolition mind you. So to say the project was over our head is absurd, as it doesn't take a lot of skill to demo a couple walls.. We hadn't even started with any of the actual real work. The complicated stuff. We were just there doing the demolition on the existing tile shower. On day three she was a NO SHOW and the house was locked and I had an entire crew sitting there and we couldn't get a hold of her!! Called her and texted her and got absolutely no response, it was most unbelievable she didn't even have the courtesy to call and say anything. Because she was not responding I had no idea what to do but we all left and planned on going back the next morning thinking maybe she had some kind of a personal emergency, plus, we had cleared our schedule for the entire week for several people so we really had no choice but to try to get this job done. So you guessed it, on day four she was a no-show AGAIN and we STILL couldn't get a hold of her or entry to the property to commence the demolition and at that point I didn't have a clue what was going on, but I just assumed something like a traumatic death in the family. At that point I stopped the job completely, filled up the schedule with work and it wasn't until many days later she said we would no longer be allowed on her property because of all the damages we caused to her house and wanted immediate financial reimbursement. Just reading her review solidifies the nature of who she is. Her review is all over the place, I can't follow it and she says things that are way out there. We pay our employees to leave good reviews? Really? So THAT'S how we got over 500 reviews over the last decade, we sure did keep our few employees awful busy :) It would be very hard to list all the actual details because I would have to write a novel. So the best I can give is a general summation. And all I can tell you is there's much, much more to the story than you're reading here. This customer will be remembered for the rest of our lives!!!!