Richard E. Middleton

Stay as far away from this person as possible. He came well-recommended and started strong, but then my project sat for 3 months while he promised to come back but did not (it was a kitchen - imagine being without your kitchen for 3 months). Turns out he was waiting on the electrician, who was not coming back because he had not been paid. One by one, the subcontractors abandoned the job because Middleton was not paying them. I finally had my lawyer fire him and hired someone else to finish. Cost me an extra $23,000 to get the job finished correctly. Save your money. Find someone else. I recommend P.F. Danusis and Son.

Burned, would be an understatment! I wish I would've seen these reviews before hiring him for our 2nd-floor renovation & addition.
Rick Middleton should be labeled as con artist as I've never seen or heard so many lies and fictional stories. We gave him chance after chance to make things right, at the end it took a total of 2 years an ended with him walking off our unfinished job, laughing. This project took so long he build in a clause that we would be compensated for every week he went over his deadline. 22 weeks later, and him walking off we still have over $6K dollar of paid and unfinished work in our house that he had no plan on completing, thus why he walked off the job.
**DO NOT HIRE THIS MAN OR FALL FOR HIS LIES**

I will not stop until justice has been serviced, I feel for anyone that has lost time and money working with this man.

Richard Middleton seems to have a million handy excuses in his back pocket and at the ready for why your job is botched, late, incomplete or whatever other disaster befalls his so-called "work." He doesn't listen, never writes anything down and pays no attention to any instruction. He just throws it together at the last minute and takes no pride whatsoever in his work. He built a room (unfinished) on a floating laminate floor which he lied to me that is was glued down (ironically it was his assistant Bill that told me otherwise and a pantry (disaster) for me which was the worst piece of carpentry I've ever seen. I've never seen such incompetence. I finally had to cut him loose. Please, do not hire this man!

I gave Rick Middleton a deposit in January 2013 to fix a roof. It is now September 2013 and the work has not been done. Phone calls, texts, messages and certified letters have gone unanswered. I did hear from him in June 2013 and said he would personally do the job asap. Next step is small claims court.
Fawn Merlino
Middleton, Ma.