Pier & Son Painting

Long story short, it has been 4 months since Perry and his crew started our project; the first room they started is only 2/3rds complete; he has not showed up for agreed upon scheduled work periods twice; he was paid 40% of the total quote price and has since refused to return e-mails, text messages or phone calls. In short Perry has stolen our money, left our house in shambles and repeatedly not kept commitments. DO NOT HIRE this charlatan.
The Whole Story:
Perry was hired to remove wallpaper, patch and repair holes, retexture walls that needed it and repaint 4 rooms and 2 bathrooms in our recently purchased home. Perry presented a quote for the completion of the entire job that was reasonable and fair. We agreed the work would be completed in three phases over a 6 month period. We agreed work would begin in August of 2017. Perry requested to reschedule the project start date for later in the year so he could "take advantage of the good weather and complete exterior jobs". We begrudgingly agreed, but wanted to be accommodating to his needs. When the scheduled start date finally arrived (Sept 22-24 2017), Perry and his crew arrived to work and complete the first phase of the job which included removal of wallpaper from a large room, patching holes and blemishes on the walls, retexturing walls, repainting, re-installing trim and cleaning up after the job. Perry and his crew worked for three days removing the wall paper, retexturing the walls and painting. At the end of the third day of work, Perry said they could not come back the next day to complete the job because he had other commitments. He assured me he would be back in less than a week to fill holes, retexture where needed, put on a final coat of paint, clean up texture splatter on our vaulted tongue and grove pine celling, finish the job and start on the second phase, so I paid him for the first and second phases of the job in good faith. I did not hear from Perry for more than a week. After repeated phone and text messages, I finally heard back from Perry. He admitted to not making it back in the agreed upon time and said he would make it up to us by finishing the first phase of unfinished work on Nov 24th-26th. We questioned the timing being the Thanksgiving weekend, but he assured us he would be there. My wife and I canceled thanksgiving plans with family and both took a day off of work to prep for his arrival...he never showed. I called and texted many, many times trying to reach him over the course of the weekend. He finally returned a call a week later claiming he "messed up the dates". We rescheduled for January 22nd and 23rd for the work to be completed. In the 10 days leading up to the scheduled date, I attempted to contact Perry 6 times. No text or phone messages were returned and neither he nor his crew showed up to complete the work they had started.