AFFORD-LESS FOUNDATION REPAIR

Jose Deleon came from a recommendation from a forum online. He first gave an estimate of about $4000 to do the inside / outside leveling of the house. After I agreed to go with him, he adjusted to $5000 to account for beam replacement, which was still a good price. It took him several weeks to sign the bid and get started. Once he arrived, his crew installed the piers quickly under the house and demonstrated the pressure rating of each. They did a great job on this part. Next the beam replacement required tunneling under the house. Although he agreed to replace beams this way prior, he tried to convince me to allow access doors to be cut into the floors to ease replacement, which I denied due to renter occupancy. He replaced the beams on the easier side of the house to access and shimmed properly. The other side of the house he claimed to finish in 1 day, and I paid him for most of the job before verifying. He did get 1 or 2 beams replaced on the difficult side, but left a section "rigged" without properly extending it. After contacting him to complete this section, he admitted is needed a lot of work and beam replacement, but delayed coming out over 3 weeks. I had given him access over this entire period which he claimed he would complete work in. He left the entry ways under the house open allowing raccoons under the house, broke a neighbors fence and didn't repair it, killed all the landscaping, and did not run the beams under the perimeter beam. The floors do not look any better than before. I am still trying to have him complete work but he has sinced not returned my phone calls or responded to an itemized list, it has been over 2 months since the start date which was estimated at less than a week of labor.