FERNANDEZ CONSTRUCTION LLC HUGO ARTURO HERNANDEZ I agreed to a contract with Arturo Hernandez for Stucco, and concrete. I gave him a deposit for $3500, $1000, and $500 for a total of $5000. The contract was not completed except for concrete, which he miscalculated the materials. He tried to take shortcuts in materials and workmanship on the stucco, and when confronted, he got belligerent, and stopped returning calls. He demanded more money, and claimed that the contract we agreed on, did not include the major repairs needed to complete a stucco job. Since our encounter, I have left several messages for him, and have received zero return calls back. I am having to look for another stucco contractor to complete the job that I had agreed to with Fernandez Construction. ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico
I hired a contractor (Frernandez Construction LLC) to re-stucco my home. In our written agreement, the contractor included concrete work, extending my driveway, in addition to the stucco.$3000 for the driveway, and $6000 for the stucco.The contractor (Hugo Arturo Fernandez Medina) AKA Arturo, insisted on a deposit of half. He stated that he needed to purchase materials. to get started. I reluctanltly gave him a deposit of $3500. He proceeded to work on the driveway, and soon requested more money so he can purchase the materials for the stucco job. I gave him an additional $1000. The stucco job never got underway. Arturo sent several different "stucco" contractors to measure the home and I can only assume give him a price to complete the job. Arturo finally came by my home a requested yet another deposit, this time for $500, again for materials. He has since not been back, and the stucco job is still not under way. After several phone call attempts, I confronted him on the lack of progress when I finally got through to him. This is when he started getting belligerent, telling me about his years of experience, and that the concrete job should have costed $6500. I again reminded him that he made the pricing the we both agreed on, and the he wrote a contract reflect his pricing. A week or so later, he then sent a couple of workers to start on the repairs of the stucco, and I asked them what the scope of work was going to be. They stated that they were only supposed to fix some of the cracks on the stucco, and then color coat the rest. I showed them the major damamge that needed to be repaired on the parapit walls. They agreed that the parapit walls needed repairs before stucco can be applied. They also told me that Arturo stated that I did not want to pay for these repairs, which are the main reason for the new stucco in the first place. I stopped them from working and again confronted Arturo. He stated that he was not going to fix them becuase he did not charge enough money. When I reminded him of our agreement, he stated that he could not finish the stucco for the amount we agreed on. I asked for money back, and he say that I was crazy, and he was not going to give me a refund. Had I known this contractor has a pattern of mis-trust, and less than ethical practices, I would not have hired him.