R Yeates Contracting

DO NOT HIRE THIS CONTRACTOR!! Mine and my husband's experience with Jeff Yates and his "crew" was by far the most ridiculous, irresponsible, disrespectful and horrible experience we've ever had to deal with. I'll start from day one. The job was our front porch being painted, which actually was a gift from my parents for our wedding anniversary. Our porch is about 20x8, so not very big at all. I come home from work around 7pm and Jeff, his 10 year old son and Phil were getting started with the job. No problem. Jeff seemed like a great, friendly guy. One thing I thought was weird, was that his 10 year old son was painting....Jeff made a comment that it was just the first coat so he was letting his son help. Ok, a little unprofessional since this was supposed to be a $800 professional paint job, but, I brushed it off. They finished up around 10:30pm. It was obviously dark out by then so it was hard to see the complete finished product. From what we could see, it looked good. Jeff said they were pretty much finished but assured and promised us that he was going to come back first thing the next morning to look at it in the daylight and do any kind of touch ups. He actually said "When people ask you who did your porch, I want to you to be able to proudly give them my name". We gave Jeff the remainder of the money we owed him. (We had already given him a deposit). So, the next morning, my husband and I are leaving for work and get a chance to see the porch in the daylight. There were brush strokes on the railings where you could still see the old, brown paint, there were parts on the stairs that were just blatantly not done at all, and there was paint on the vinyl siding of our house. Since Jeff said he was coming back the next day, we weren't too worried since we figured he would see these mistakes, and fix them. Little did we know that this would be the start of A MONTH LONG BATTLE to get Jeff back to finish the job that HE WAS PAID FOR. From the day after they were there which was Monday, June 19th 2017, to mid July it was a living hell. Not only did Jeff not show up the next day as he had promised, he, for the next 2 weeks, would give us excuse after excuse as to why he couldn't come. First it was unreliable crew members, then it was other "more important" jobs he had to do, most times he wouldn't even give a reason at all for not showing up. By this point, my dad, husband and I were all texting him and trying to get this straightened out. He would say, I'll be there, Thursday at 3p, then he would no show. Then the next day he would make some excuse and say I'll be there Tuesday at 12p....another no show. THIRTEEN TIMES. I have texts on my phone where I am pleading with this man to come and finish the job he started and THAT HE WAS PAID FOR. So, one Sunday Jeff called me and said he was on his way to our house now to finish the job. We were not home at this time but told him to please, just go there and finish the job. We got home and there was white paint splattered all over our newly painted brown floor of the porch, on our patio chairs and there were STILL spots that were not painted!!! At this point, we could not even fathom what was going on with this guy. I honestly felt like we were in the twilight zone. My husband called Jeff and asked him "Are you joking?! Do you consider this a complete job??" Jeff acted like he had no idea what we were talking about. It turns out that it was not Jeff that came that day and "finished" our porch, but his crew member Phil. I'm guessing that out of spite, Phil took the paint brush and splattered paint everywhere and did a shitty job. At this point we threatened to sue and actually got the authorities involved. For whatever Godforsaken reason, this guy COULD NOT or WOULD NOT come and complete our porch. We were done. After some not very nice exchange of words over the phone, we told Jeff to leave the cans of paint on our porch and we would finish the job ourselves. I still have the text messages on my phone and plan to use them to warn people via social media to PLEASE do not give this man your money. Like I said, I'm 32 years old and have NEVER dealt with a more unprofessional, unethical and disreputable situation in my life. I'm putting this on here to warn people to NOT TRUST JEFF YATES or his "worker", Phil. They are dishonest, disloyal, and in my eyes, they stole money from us by not completing a job they were paid to do. What also makes this ten times worse is the fact that this was a gift from my parents for our wedding anniversary, which Jeff knew, and he STILL put us through hell and back. Don't waste a dime or a second of our your time with this company.