Jfr Contracting

The total contract with JFR was for $55,000 and I was paying for the floors directly ($20,000k for hardwood floors and $10K for carpet). I also paid for all of the HVAC work. I paid early and often in the beginning...each check being for $10,000. Every single thing that came up during the job, was invoiced to me directly...for an additional amount of $14,800.

Once I saw the progress slowing, I confronted John and he started to make things up. The most blatant lie was that I told him that we need to move out July 15th. The guy is pathological. Every time that he fell behind, he blamed me. In early June, we had a major conflict because he did not have a handle on his contractors and he exploded with the fact that he was going on vacation from June 22 to 29th (the entire week before we were supposed to move in.) He said that he told us about his vacation in the very beginning....another lie. John essentially told me that our house "may" not be ready and that we should put all of the things (including two pianos) in storage and move my family and dog into a hotel until he was done....again...in la la land.

Honestly, the biggest blessing happened when John went on vacation. I took a full week vacation and took over the general contracting work. I worked with all of the contractors, hired a handyman (Mr. Handyman in Malvern) at $104/HR and we worked like dogs on things that should have been completed much earlier. To make a long story short, we got the job completed to 95%, certainly to a point where my family could move in.

John bounced back from Puerto Rico the day that we were moving in...with a text like nothing had happened....again, totally pathological. I told him to stay away until after we moved in which would give me time to process the total cost of what I had to do to finish Johns's work.

At the end of the job,per John's proposal, I owed him $13,500 (had he completed all the tasks). I gave him firm costs for everything that took place over the week while he was on vacation, including materials and labor that totaled over $11,000. I offered John $3500 to drop off my 5 kitchen cabinet doors (that were late because John measured wrong). This was the last piece of the puzzle to complete the job. John sent me a credit invoice for $2700 and insisted that I pay the remaining balance and the dumpster fees.

John walked away from the job completely, trying to hold my kitchen cabinet doors hostage. He refused to pay his contractor, Eddie the painter, who called me and said that he was owed $4980. Ironically John was great at taking money...but terrible at paying it out. I paid Eddie for all of his services even though my contract was with JFR and Eddie's contract was with JFR. I did not want any of the people who did the work to get screwed by this guy.

I have never written a review...good or bad on a company or a product, but I feel that I owe this to people who are researching contractors. Beware of the yes man, who drinks 40 oz Coffee Coolattas, and RARELY does any work himself because he is too busy not managing his jobs while he talks instructions into his phone because he couldn't remember to zip up his jeans if he didn't talk to Siri every minute.