Where to begin?
Trinity Humphreys poses as a handyman/contractor that can do almost any job and work you need done. What he fails to mention is that he has multiple (5) court judgements against him for failure to perform work that was paid for, faulty or inferior quality work, theft and forgery charges filed against him, unprofessional conduct charges against him, and a very bad attitude when you want him to finish the job. He also says he is a licensed contractor, but he is not, and he will quickly use a number of other contractor names that ARE licensed and say he works with them under their license. He does not work for them either.
He acts like a nice guy at first, even talks about his church, but it's just an act.
He bid a job for me to do some tile work on some interior pillars. The bid included the cost of materials to do the job. He failed to show up the scheduled day, and had a poor but reasonable excuse for failing to appear (all of his subsequent excuses were poor but reasonable - their sole purpose was to buy him more time). When he finally did begin the job, it took 2.5 DAYS to get only halfway done, as opposed to the 8 hours told to start and finish completely. He took his time, several times he took off on an errand for over an hour or more, and would never say when he would be back.
He said he couldn't afford all of the tile because he had loaned someone money that day, but if I paid for it he would pay me back the next day. Not wanting yet another delay, I bought the tile for him to use.
He did a terrible job, amateur at best, and made a huge mess of my store. He failed to finish that day, or the next, or the next. He refuses to pay me back for the tile he was supposed to have paid for himself, and refused to tell me when he would finish the job. He also stole some of my materials.
After my bad experience with him, I was told by people who recognized him that he was known to rip people off. A quick trip to the court gave me all the records on him - theft, forgery, and unprofessional conduct charges and/or convictions, and many, many judgements against him.
His method it turned out is to start a job, get paid for all or part of it, then refuse to come back on some made-up premise of conflict (he accused me of stealing his crappy ipod, which he had left in my store overnight and found it sitting exactly where he had left it. To others he just finds some other premise.)
When you call him to find out when he will finish the job, he threatens you with harassment, and says that he will file charges of (insert random crime here) unless you leave him alone. He then threatens bankruptcy unless you back off.
He told me he was very smart and knew the law, and that I couldn't do anything about my money or the job. I finally had to kick him off my property for his threats to me.
In the 5 days I spent finding out about Trinity Humphreys, I attended one of his court hearings pertaining to his judjements and payments on them, I happened to end up sitting right next to another older couple that had JUST won a judgement against him for the same type of shoddy work and bad attitude. Just as he was dismissed, they stood up to let the judge know about their judgement, but Trinity didn't even care - he just left the courtroom.
He has several other complaints against him that are about to be filed.
Don't be fooled by this wolf in sheeps clothing - he WILL rip you off. He takes the money from one job to pay the fines from his judgements. The second you question his work or performance, he WILL threaten you with the courts. He hides behind the law, because the laws have so many loopholes he has found several to wriggle out of his obligations.
He WILL give you excuse after excuse for not finishing the work you have paid him to do. I have heard over 50 different ones in only 5 weeks time. He is very convincing, but not if you take the time to check out his stories or excuses, or if you can cross-reference them.
Just watch out for this guy - he is a slick criminal.
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