Complaint Review: Midstate Cutom Exteriors - Mid State Custom Exterior

Chris Kelley is unethical and is wanted by police in at least one state, has multiple civil lawsuits against him, and has racked up eleven unresolved complaints with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in Macon GA alone.

He and his wife, Gwen McHenry Kelley, were doing business as Mid-State Custom Exteriors, and left the area in January 2007 after being arrested for two cases of fraud. He is still wanted by police in eleven different jurisdictions in Georgia, and has not answered to any charges filed, two of which are in Warner Robins GA, where he did business as Mid-State Custom Exteriors. He has apparently done this same thing in New Jersey and Florida, prior to moving to Georgia.

He is now in Gig Harbor WA doing business as Repair4Free (www.repair4free.com), Core Advantage Services (www.coreadvantages.com), and CM Kelley Enterprises or CM Kelley Inc. He is not currently licensed as a contractor in the state of Washington under his (or his wife's) name, nor are they registered as a corporation.

They never paid us for the work we did to his customer's home (to the tune of $7,000.00), and they have defrauded dozens of homeowners in Georgia by taking their down payments and not doing the work. And we're not talking the $399 that he has on his new website. One homeowner (whose home we did the work on) lost $30,000.00. Another homeowner lost $12,000.00. Several others were above the $5,000.00 range, while others were $2,000.00 and so on. Ours was the first complaint filed. Within a matter of three months, their BBB membership was revoked.

The owner, Chris Kelley, was featured on a segment of 13WMAZ (Macon GA), "Warner Robins Businessman Wanted" at this link: http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local_story.aspx?storyid=33642

Here is the text of the story:

"A Central Georgia businessman is wanted by police. Several homeowners say he stole thousands of dollars without doing any work.

Jeff and Jill Venjohn say they called Mid-State Custom Exterior to remodel the rotting door in their Monroe County home. They say a man took a $2,000 deposit and never returned to do the work.

Houston County Investigators arrested the business owner, Christopher Kelley, in November, in a similar case. The BBB says homeowners in eleven (11) cities filed complaints against the company, including the Venjohns.

JEFF VENJOHN, VICTIM OF THEFT: "Extremely angry, you go through all the emotions where you just want to throttle them, if you can find him, you want to beat him up, beat the tar out of him, get the $2,000 out of his hide."

We filed (and won) a civil lawsuit against him. but at the time he was still considered a Florida resident, and did not own the home he resided in, nor his business, so we will probably never see the money we are owed. But we still feel it was our duty to do everything we can to keep other contractors and homeowners from being victims as well.

If you are a victim of Chris & Gwen Kelley, contact us for more information.

CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

Chris Kelley is unethical and is wanted by police in at least one state, has multiple civil lawsuits against him, and has racked up eleven unresolved complaints with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in Macon GA alone.

He and his wife, Gwen McHenry Kelley, were doing business as Mid-State Custom Exteriors, and left the area in January 2007 after being arrested for two cases of fraud. He is still wanted by police in eleven different jurisdictions in Georgia, and has not answered to any charges filed, two of which are in Warner Robins GA, where he did business as Mid-State Custom Exteriors. He has apparently done this same thing in New Jersey and Florida, prior to moving to Georgia.

He is now in Gig Harbor WA doing business as Repair4Free (www.repair4free.com), and Core Advantage Services (www.coreadvantages.com).

They never paid us for the work we did to his customer's home (to the tune of $7,000.00), and they have defrauded dozens of homeowners in Georgia by taking their down payments and not doing the work. And we're not talking the $399 that he has on his new website. One homeowner (whose home we did the work on) lost $30,000.00. Another homeowner lost $12,000.00. Several others were above the $5,000.00 range, while others were $2,000.00 and so on. Ours was the first complaint filed. Within a matter of three months, their BBB membership was revoked.

The owner, Chris Kelley, was featured on a segment of 13WMAZ (Macon GA), "Warner Robins Businessman Wanted" at this link: http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local_story.aspx?storyid=33642

Here is the text of the story:

"A Central Georgia businessman is wanted by police. Several homeowners say he stole thousands of dollars without doing any work.

Jeff and Jill Venjohn say they called Mid-State Custom Exterior to remodel the rotting door in their Monroe County home. They say a man took a $2,000 deposit and never returned to do the work.

Houston County Investigators arrested the business owner, Christopher Kelley, in November, in a similar case. The BBB says homeowners in eleven (11) cities filed complaints against the company, including the Venjohns.

JEFF VENJOHN, VICTIM OF THEFT: "Extremely angry, you go through all the emotions where you just want to throttle them, if you can find him, you want to beat him up, beat the tar out of him, get the $2,000 out of his hide."

We filed (and won) a civil lawsuit against him. but at the time he was still considered a Florida resident, and did not own the home he resided in, nor his business, so we will probably never see the money we are owed. But we still feel it was our duty to do everything we can to keep other contractors and homeowners from being victims as well.

If you are a victim of Chris & Gwen Kelley, contact us for more information.

CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.