Jay Fischer Renovations LLC

Jay Fischer quoted and invoiced several repairs for me in mid-​May, prepared an itemized invoice and collected a $ 160 down payment to purchase materials and supplies. After he missed our original appointment and two rescheduled appointments he initiated, I have not heard from him again (despite my multiple attempts to reach him by phone, text, Facebook, email, and certified letter). Unreliable at best– you decide what you’d call taking $ 160 down and never showing up again.

We had a really bad experience with Jay and found him extremely unprofessional. To begin with, he was almost an hour late for our estimating appointment. He never bothered to tell us he was running late until I checked in with him after he was already 30 minutes late. Strike one. He provided a written estimate and agreed to start the next morning. We paid him $ 150 down. The following morning he texted me after he was already 15 minutes late and said he was «looking for his tools» and would «be over shortly». He lives 8 blocks from us and from that point it took him another 75 minutes to «find his tools» and drive 8 blocks. In total, an hour and a half late. Strike two. By that point we had basically given up and had already left the house for an important appointment. He called upon arrival, and we told him to just not even bother anymore. We had a very tight timeframe to get the work completed (we were selling our house) and we no longer viewed him as reliable. We said we’d just like the money back with hopes we could part ways amicably. He claimed to have already bought supplies (ostensibly spending both time and money in doing so). We then offered to use some or all of our down payment to pay him for the time he had spent thus far and to purchase from him the supplies had already bought, given that they were purchased specifically for our house. He refused on all fronts and simply kept the money as well as the supplies he supposedly purchased. Strike three. He then began sending me threatening messages after I posted a poor review on another website. Strikes four, five and six? After receiving the threats, I went to file a BBB complaint against him and discovered that he already had a couple of complaints registered against him for actions that sounded eerily similar to what we experienced, with those customers also reporting that Jay threatened them in the end. We would highly recommend avoiding this guy.