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RM Home Improvement General & Contracting or Renold McDonald 203K HUD contractor non reliable South Orange New Jersey
Mr. Reynold McDonald from RM Home Improvement’s quality of work is very poor. Beware of using this guy because he will cause damage to your property. Our options are very limited at that time because we have a 203K HUD construction loan. He was recommended by our HUD consultant (which turned out to screw us too – His name is Paul Gorrell from Block’s consulting. I did a separate review for him) and we were given a deadline to select a contractor otherwise we won’t be able to close on our house. The HUD consultant has all Mr. McDonald’s paperwork ready hence we ended up using him because we did not want to miss our closing date.
He was not my first choice because
HIS COMMUNICATION SKILLS IS VERY BAD
Those are just examples. There are more.
Working with him is such a headache but we gave him a chance, we gave him a list of things he needs to remediate due to the damage that he has done and told him he has 5 days to show effort otherwise we will terminate him. Within those 5 days, he continue to show that he cannot do the job. He did not show up to work for couple of days and he started doing other things the next day that we did not want him to do. He continues to do more damaged by painting the house without a primer, continue using the wrong materials. We ended up terminating him and we are glad we did but THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE AND WE NEED TO HIRE ANOTHER CONTRACTOR TO FIX THE DAMAGES HE HAS CAUSED.
In short, he is not trustworthy, the quality of his work is very poor, he doesn’t listen to what the client wants and he will just randomly do what he wants. His contract offers 1 year warranty and obviously we will not use it because we don’t want him to do more damage.
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203kHUDvictim
New Jersey,update
#2Author of original report
Mon, February 03, 2014
Additionally, the following has been discovered:
Exposed and improperly protected live wiring left throughout, including the bathroom were water is present (Imminent hazard)
Active water leakage observed inside the main service panel. (Imminent hazard)