Mark
Lebanon,#2UPDATE Employee
Sat, June 20, 2009
I have worked with the Monmaney family for many years, and therefore have a unique perspective of this situation. First of all I have to clear up the difference between Monmaneys Master Painters and Bruce Monmaney Painters. Harry Monmaney and Tom Monmaney were co-owners of Monmaneys Master Painters. Most of Harrys sons (including Bruce), and Harrys grandchildren were employees of Harry and Toms painting business. After Harrys death in 2003, Tom was forced to declare bankruptcy for Monmaneys Master Painters, and then started a new painting company. The other brothers and grandkids went their own ways, starting smaller painting and construction businesses of their own. Since the split, Bruces business has become successful, but he has remained unaffiliated with Tom, and Monmaneys Master Painters. Next there need to be a few corrections. 1) Semi-Gloss is a term used to describe the shinyness of paint, it is not used to describe exterior paint. 2) The 99% of lawyers in a 50 mile radius comment is amusing, but completely absurd. 3) A family painting business was not 30mil in debt. 4) They didn't use steamers back then, they used dif wallpaper remover On to the Report itself. As this incident took place many years ago I will do my best to recall the details. While i can't dispute some of the anecdotes in the story, because I was not the person working on the house, I do remember Harry sending people back after the original paint job to replace a lot of the old siding on that house at no charge to resolve the molding problem. A lot of the inconsistencies in the posters story make me skeptical as to wether or not the author is the actual customer, or someone else pretending to be that customer. Either way, the fact is that Monmaneys Master Painters is long gone. Going after any of Harry's sons or grandsons who were only employees of Monmaneys Master Painters, lost their jobs, and had to start their own businesses from the ground is distasteful. For the Original Poster I'd be willing to bet that had you gone to any one of Harry's sons or grandsons after they started their own companies, and explained your situation to them, that any one of them would have been willing to take a look at your house, see if your paint job wasn't holding up, and help you out, out of kindness, and decency, not because they were any way obligated to do so. Instead you decided not to talk to any of them, write a rip-off report for a company that no longer exists, and accuse the sons of a deceased painter of something they had absolutely nothing to do with.
Mark
Lebanon,#3UPDATE Employee
Sat, June 20, 2009
I have worked with the Monmaney family for many years, and therefore have a unique perspective of this situation. First of all I have to clear up the difference between Monmaneys Master Painters and Bruce Monmaney Painters. Harry Monmaney and Tom Monmaney were co-owners of Monmaneys Master Painters. Most of Harrys sons (including Bruce), and Harrys grandchildren were employees of Harry and Toms painting business. After Harrys death in 2003, Tom was forced to declare bankruptcy for Monmaneys Master Painters, and then started a new painting company. The other brothers and grandkids went their own ways, starting smaller painting and construction businesses of their own. Since the split, Bruces business has become successful, but he has remained unaffiliated with Tom, and Monmaneys Master Painters. Next there need to be a few corrections. 1) Semi-Gloss is a term used to describe the shinyness of paint, it is not used to describe exterior paint. 2) The 99% of lawyers in a 50 mile radius comment is amusing, but completely absurd. 3) A family painting business was not 30mil in debt. 4) They didn't use steamers back then, they used dif wallpaper remover On to the Report itself. As this incident took place many years ago I will do my best to recall the details. While i can't dispute some of the anecdotes in the story, because I was not the person working on the house, I do remember Harry sending people back after the original paint job to replace a lot of the old siding on that house at no charge to resolve the molding problem. A lot of the inconsistencies in the posters story make me skeptical as to wether or not the author is the actual customer, or someone else pretending to be that customer. Either way, the fact is that Monmaneys Master Painters is long gone. Going after any of Harry's sons or grandsons who were only employees of Monmaneys Master Painters, lost their jobs, and had to start their own businesses from the ground is distasteful. For the Original Poster I'd be willing to bet that had you gone to any one of Harry's sons or grandsons after they started their own companies, and explained your situation to them, that any one of them would have been willing to take a look at your house, see if your paint job wasn't holding up, and help you out, out of kindness, and decency, not because they were any way obligated to do so. Instead you decided not to talk to any of them, write a rip-off report for a company that no longer exists, and accuse the sons of a deceased painter of something they had absolutely nothing to do with.
Mark
Lebanon,#4UPDATE Employee
Sat, June 20, 2009
I have worked with the Monmaney family for many years, and therefore have a unique perspective of this situation. First of all I have to clear up the difference between Monmaneys Master Painters and Bruce Monmaney Painters. Harry Monmaney and Tom Monmaney were co-owners of Monmaneys Master Painters. Most of Harrys sons (including Bruce), and Harrys grandchildren were employees of Harry and Toms painting business. After Harrys death in 2003, Tom was forced to declare bankruptcy for Monmaneys Master Painters, and then started a new painting company. The other brothers and grandkids went their own ways, starting smaller painting and construction businesses of their own. Since the split, Bruces business has become successful, but he has remained unaffiliated with Tom, and Monmaneys Master Painters. Next there need to be a few corrections. 1) Semi-Gloss is a term used to describe the shinyness of paint, it is not used to describe exterior paint. 2) The 99% of lawyers in a 50 mile radius comment is amusing, but completely absurd. 3) A family painting business was not 30mil in debt. 4) They didn't use steamers back then, they used dif wallpaper remover On to the Report itself. As this incident took place many years ago I will do my best to recall the details. While i can't dispute some of the anecdotes in the story, because I was not the person working on the house, I do remember Harry sending people back after the original paint job to replace a lot of the old siding on that house at no charge to resolve the molding problem. A lot of the inconsistencies in the posters story make me skeptical as to wether or not the author is the actual customer, or someone else pretending to be that customer. Either way, the fact is that Monmaneys Master Painters is long gone. Going after any of Harry's sons or grandsons who were only employees of Monmaneys Master Painters, lost their jobs, and had to start their own businesses from the ground is distasteful. For the Original Poster I'd be willing to bet that had you gone to any one of Harry's sons or grandsons after they started their own companies, and explained your situation to them, that any one of them would have been willing to take a look at your house, see if your paint job wasn't holding up, and help you out, out of kindness, and decency, not because they were any way obligated to do so. Instead you decided not to talk to any of them, write a rip-off report for a company that no longer exists, and accuse the sons of a deceased painter of something they had absolutely nothing to do with.
Mark
Lebanon,#5UPDATE Employee
Sat, June 20, 2009
I have worked with the Monmaney family for many years, and therefore have a unique perspective of this situation. First of all I have to clear up the difference between Monmaneys Master Painters and Bruce Monmaney Painters. Harry Monmaney and Tom Monmaney were co-owners of Monmaneys Master Painters. Most of Harrys sons (including Bruce), and Harrys grandchildren were employees of Harry and Toms painting business. After Harrys death in 2003, Tom was forced to declare bankruptcy for Monmaneys Master Painters, and then started a new painting company. The other brothers and grandkids went their own ways, starting smaller painting and construction businesses of their own. Since the split, Bruces business has become successful, but he has remained unaffiliated with Tom, and Monmaneys Master Painters. Next there need to be a few corrections. 1) Semi-Gloss is a term used to describe the shinyness of paint, it is not used to describe exterior paint. 2) The 99% of lawyers in a 50 mile radius comment is amusing, but completely absurd. 3) A family painting business was not 30mil in debt. 4) They didn't use steamers back then, they used dif wallpaper remover On to the Report itself. As this incident took place many years ago I will do my best to recall the details. While i can't dispute some of the anecdotes in the story, because I was not the person working on the house, I do remember Harry sending people back after the original paint job to replace a lot of the old siding on that house at no charge to resolve the molding problem. A lot of the inconsistencies in the posters story make me skeptical as to wether or not the author is the actual customer, or someone else pretending to be that customer. Either way, the fact is that Monmaneys Master Painters is long gone. Going after any of Harry's sons or grandsons who were only employees of Monmaneys Master Painters, lost their jobs, and had to start their own businesses from the ground is distasteful. For the Original Poster I'd be willing to bet that had you gone to any one of Harry's sons or grandsons after they started their own companies, and explained your situation to them, that any one of them would have been willing to take a look at your house, see if your paint job wasn't holding up, and help you out, out of kindness, and decency, not because they were any way obligated to do so. Instead you decided not to talk to any of them, write a rip-off report for a company that no longer exists, and accuse the sons of a deceased painter of something they had absolutely nothing to do with.