Originally Posted by AnnTony
(Post 498919)
May 27, 2012
****Please don’t get taken like our Villa’s did – This is just my story – pass it on!!!
We would like to file a complaint against Roger Greenlee and request some restitution of compensation for the following reasons:
We originally contracted with Roger Greenlee; his business card identified his company as Professional Services Plus, LLC. in February 2012 when he approached my husband at our garage entrance. He was going door to door soliciting business in the neighborhood of Crestview Villas. This particular contract included driveway/sidewalk painting at our new home in Florida. It included pressure washing, painting, base coat, top coat and sealer on driveway and sidewalks, in both the front and back walkways.
We contracted again (before he was finished with the first one) for the landscaping of our property. This one included some concrete work (building a pad and doggie step), waterfall, palm trees, flowers and plants, removing all sod, putting rock down and capping off/relocating sprinklers to the appropriate spots.
The first job began on schedule in February 2012. The work stopped at our home to allow time for him to acquire materials for contract #2. However, we identified areas to him which needed to be finished: no sealer coat applied to any of the driveways in Crestview Villas, spray paint on our home and fences, including our neighbors, needed to be removed, painting on the driveway next to the front door, doggie step had not been smoothed over or painted (left to dry with debris mixed in), and where tape was placed in the lanai, when removed; peeled paint inside enclosure. All items were identified to Roger or Patty (his assistant) as they were discovered. Said they would finish all the work after the landscaping and concrete pad work was completed.
While waiting for the materials to arrive for our contract, he proceeded doing many other driveways in Crestview Villas. As a result of this, work did not start in a timely manner for the landscaping. I called and told Roger we would do it ourselves, but I wanted the money back that we had given him in advance for this contract. Roger finally sent someone out to start removing the sod in the back yard in mid-March. He pulled some sod up in the backyard, however, the employee didn’t return the next day. We were getting very frustrated by now. After seeing the quality of work with creating the doggie step, we contracted with another company to pour the pad and sidewalk, figuring we could deduct that money from the estimate. I again informed Roger of the delay in doing the work. Next, as time went by, we hired another contractor to pressure wash the house hoping this would remove the paint, in addition to cleaning the vinyl – no such luck, paint wouldn’t come up (still there). Rogers’ employee came back again to finish removing the sod. Landscaping started and the waterfall was finally being constructed.
Well, here we are in May. The work that needed to be finished from our initial contract still needs to be accomplished; but now, add the fountain leaks (can’t run it, drains all the water into the lawn somewhere). There was not enough slate to even cover the tub of the fountain. The new concrete work was to be painted along with the doggie step. None of the paint was completed per estimate. After such a long wait and no calls/contact with Roger except once said they would be back in the next couple of days (April timeframe) I hired another contractor to finish the work. Oh by the way, our fence was hit with a bobcat when he was landscaping the yard…Cost to fix the dents, is yet to be determined.
Below is recap of the timeframe and money this contractor has cost us to date. Please take into consideration some unfinished work still needs to be completed correctly, our costs to hire additional contractors are included with additional materials that also had to be purchased. We ended up paying Roger $1200.00 for the first incomplete contract and $8900.00 for the second. However, we spent additional money to hire others to at least help fix some of the left other problems.
(First Contract)
First payment: 2/14 $400.00 Second payment: 2/21 $800.00 Both Checks
(Second Contract)
First 2/12 $3500.00 Check
Second 3/1 $ 500.00 Check
Third 3/26 $2500.00 Check
Fourth Cash 4/6 $ 500.00 Check 4/6 $ 500.00
Fifth Cash 4/10 $ 200.00 Check 4/10 $ 1200.00
Additional contractors hired:
Pour concrete $1640.00 Check
Pressure Washing $ 150.00 **** Check
**** (As far as the pressure washing goes, we needed to do this house anyway, just hoping it would take off the paint too)
Slate purchased for waterfall $ 87.74
Our time repairing/fixing TBD
Additional Painting Completed $ 800.00 (Backyard only)
The following are work still needs to be accomplished:
- Front Paining redone with the right kind of paint and fixed where left unfinished $ 800.00
- River Rock purchased/delivered to fill in the no rock spots and build it up to where it should be (edge of walkways) $ 826.80
Since Roger Greenlee has been misleading Villages residents on what he is unable or unwilling to finish, we are requesting a partial refund to in-turn pay the additional contractors in completing the work we paid Roger to do. We have also spent a great deal of time just trying to finish the waterfall correctly.
I asked repeatedly for a receipt for the landscaping contract, but was never given one. I do have all other receipts. To date, we have had to spend an additional $2677.74, not including our labor or the work that still needs to be done right. There are so many more individuals, in our neighborhood alone, that have also been taken by Roger, but are afraid to speak up. Please help us all. If you can, I’ll try to get the rest that have been taken by Roger Greenlee. “Talk of the Village” website has additional warning/complaints on this contractor in other parts of the Villages. If you need to contact us, call 633-2505. Thanks for your assistance with this matter.
//signed//
Ann M and Tony L Seldomridge 2108 Shady Hill Court (Crestview Villas) Village of Buttonwood
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