Jaime Preciado

I wish I had discovered the other review for Jaime here before entering into a contract with him. It was the day before Thanksgiving and I was in a hurry to get out of town. If you take one thing away from my mistake, heed this! DO NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS in haste. A fast talking, smooth operator got the best of me!
My experience was almost identical to Nick D. Jaime asked for 50% deposit for materials, which I was happy to comply with.
To make a very long and complicated story short. He showed up for the first few days and «appeared» to be working diligently. Which caused me to pay him a little more here and there for material. I emphasize «appeared» because later I discovered it was all smoke and mirrors and in actuality, he fulfilled less than 20% of the contracted work while getting paid closer to 85% of the contract.
The last straw was when I called him out on skipping a major step (insulation). After that, he didn’t show up at all and didn’t respond to my calls, text or email. I asked him to at least deliver the material that I had paid for. He didn’t even have the decency to do that and eventually I had to re-​purchase all the material and finish the job myself. At that point, couldn’t afford to pay someone else a second time to do the same job.

Jaime Preciado essentially stole $ 275 from me. We signed a contract, $ 550 for the installation of a few sliding glass doors in my house, and as per our agreement I paid him 50% up front. Jaime said he could start right away. He then never showed up to do the work and I had to do the work myself. He said he was unable to pay me back directly, so I’ve been in contact with him since and have given him ample opportunities to work off his debt to me; building a garden, repairing a roof, fixing a fence, etc. On numerous occasions he’s agreed to come do a job to get our debt cleared up, only to bail at the last minute or disappear. This has gone on for two years. I’ve finally lost faith that I’ll ever get our debt cleared up; he’s dishonest and lazy and deserves no business of mine or yours.