Home Improvements of America

Josh Varnado took our money and did not pay contractors or vendors. We have reciepts and canceled checks for work that was paid for in a timeline. Josh Varnado is a fraud and con artist. He took our money and did no pay contractors or vendors. He got about half the job completed before the lein notices started coming in. We have canceled checks and bank withdrawal schedule that Varnado Construction gave the bank. The withdrawal schedule was very clear as to what it was paying for. He signed documents at the bank stating he would pay all vendors and contractors. He took our money and was robbing Peter to pay Paul. He was running 2 jobs with our money and ran out! Everything was happening very fast... until the 1st lein showed up... then everything stopped. He went so far as to order wood for our house under his Father's account. He did not pay that bill either and we now have a lein on our house. We have payed all the other Leins off... Which means we paid them twice. The total of all the Leins were well over $9000. We had to pay other contractors to finish the job. We had to buy Brick and have it put on the house... both of which were paid in full to Josh Varnado. We had to pay to have Brick on one side totally redone because he hired people who had never bricked a 2nd floor before. We had to pay to have all the trash hauled off that he left in our backyard. We had to pay to have the Stairs redone because they were out of code by 1". Our garage ceiling collapsed because he did not pay someone to put shingles on our roof for 3 weeks after it was dried in. No rain for 3 weeks... then 60 mph winds and heavy rain tore the tar paper right off the roof and flooded 1/2 the house. I asked for his insurance information and he texted me his Auto Policy information. When I asked for his insurance information again... he admitted that he had none, and was not bonded! The Garage is still a mess... sheetrock was hung by Josh and his father, but was never taped and bedded. We had to hire a electrician to come in and get 90% or so of the outlets and lights working. Whoever Josh hired had no clue about wiring... or very little. Even after all that I told him to pay off Oldham lumber and we were done... He said no problem he would take care of it. His last text was on May 17th. He was going to pay Oldham. He had just gotten a huge sum of money. Then he stopped communicating totally... He has started another company called Greenway Renovations http://www.gwrenovations.com/ in order to hide... He used to be known as Josh Ben-David, but changed his name a few years ago following similar circumstances and bankruptsy. I have learned a huge lesson, and I am only going to use Angie's List from now on.