Alvarez Professional Services

We initially hired Mr. Alvarez to paint the ceilings of our home. He charged my grandmother and mother-in-law $2400 for taping and prepping of the whole house. He did none of that. We have paint speckles in every room on every surface. The tiles are uneven and the grout is cracking. The electrical work was not done properly. The breaker box was supposed to be switched out to a larger one and that was never done. I now only have one bathroom with one outlet that works. He replaced my dining room fan. It was originally wired to two switches; one for the light and one for the fan. It now only has one switch and a hole where the other switch used to be. Mr. Alvarez and his team never finished the work. I contacted him on numerous occasions to arrange a time for him and his team to come finish the work. He always had an excuse and eventually stopped responding to my text messages and phone calls. We are seeking a refund for the work that was not completed and done incorrectly. All contracts were written as lump-sum contracts. It is illegal to charge a sales tax on lump-sum contracts and Mr. Alvarez charged us a sales tax on two separate contracts. I have included 10 pictures because that is all I am allowed to upload. I have hundreds of pictures documenting the work that was done at the house.

I hired Mr. Alvarez June 18th, 2016 to extend a patio, stain and add a fire pit to my backyard. He was enthusiastic and ready to get started right away, that week. The first issue I had was that the frame for the slab did not extend all the way under my faucet as we had discussed and indicated on the paperwork. When I asked him about it he said it was because my sprinkler pump was under the faucet. I let it go, but later after some research this statement was a lie. My sprinkler water pump was way on the other side of the yard. He just did not want to redo the frame work. The next process was to have the slab poured. There were 10 delays due to his excuses that went from... waiting on the concrete people to come/confirm, to telling me the wrong day, to him having to go out of town, and a few others. I finally sent him a text that I was done we needed to part ways and I wanted a full refund. However, only after that text was sent to him was my slab poured. The slab looked great no complaints there, but I later notice that he or a member of his crew pulled off the metal top on my water hose so now nothing can be connected to it. Now was to have the patio stained. I was promised several times I would be provided color samples to look at, but I never saw or received them. Then again for this process, appointments were made by him where he failed to show up or canceled, and at times without notification unless I reached out to him asking where he was. It seemed as though I was always the one to have contact him as to why he was not at the scheduled appointment. He is not always very good at responding to phone calls or text. What should have been a project that was completed in a few weeks has turned into 2 months and nowhere near completion. This has been a very irritating process. After the most recent appointment that Mr. Alvarez failed to show up to without letting me know. I sent him a text firing him and letting him know I wanted a partial refund. He did not reply to my text or phone call. I informed him in another text and an attempted phone call I would be filing a claim with small claims court and reporting him to the BBB, if we did not have a resolution by an indicated date and time. A few days later I came home to a note and a check of ¼ of the amount of money I asked for. So my advice is do not hire this person he is very unorganized, unreliable, has a lot of excuses, does not communicate well and makes promises he doesn?t follow through on.