Bad Builder in Albufeira You Should Know

Hi I am a Canadian and I bought a house in Algarve for my retirement later. The house need some renovation and I hired *** who is a British living in Albuferia. You can Google him by searching “***a”. His Facebook page will come up. But don’t be fooled by his FB contents like I did.  Trust me. He is anything but a honest family man like he tried to portray on FB. My nightmare started after he got my second payment, which is the biggest amount according to the contract. He came up with all sorts of excuses for not doing much work on the house. I had to hire a local project manager to monitor his progress. After the project manager reported back to me that **l only did a few painting patches in three weeks, I totally gave up on him. A 3 month job he promised, but only got 35% completed with poor quality after 6 months. He kept ignoring the letter my lawyer sent and eventually I had to terminate the contract as I was 100% sure by then he is a crook. I asked him nicely to return my money but he refused.   Not only that, he even had the audacity to send me the invoice  8 month later with VAT excluded, which is the opposite of our contract.  This proves what a greedy person he is. He not only cheats on me, but also cheats on the Portugal government.  According to my lawyer, I am not his first victim and there are others out there. So Please Please DO NOT deal with this person for any kind of business. He is a liar. Except a big ego, he has nothing. This is a hard lesson I learned and I hope you or your family or friends will never repeat my mistake. Feel free to spread this message to anyone who may be interested in hiring someone for home renovations.  If you are his victim also, please contact me in private. Thanks.