Scam Type
Home Improvement Scam
Business Name Used
Lopez Maintenance
Date Reported
Jul 14, 2022
Victim Postal Code
94403
Total Dollars Lost
$1,000.00
Scam Description
BUYER BEWARE of Lopez Maintenance. (Leonel Lopez Vasquez – on his driver’s license). I got scammed by this small time contractor who happens to be a FRAUD. He does concrete work, landscaping, remodeling, etc.. He did not have a state contractor’s license, instead the license number on his card was a city business license which had expired. Lesson learned… He is a smooth talker, he even got me to believe that my neighbor a few doors down had hired him for a big job to start when they got back from vacation. He knew details of their vacation, so I bought it, figured they had checked him out. They get back from vacation, and I find out they never hired him. I hired him to replace my concrete driveway. He lowered the price if I started the job right away. I missed that red flag as well. The job was okay. I paid him 40% upfront, and planned to pay the rest after the job was complete, but he kept pleading for more after the concrete was poured, so I paid him the rest minus $500 to be paid after the clean up. I thought that $500 would be enough until I learned that he did not pay the concrete company, so I am responsible, and am now out an extra $1000. It’s been 2 weeks, and he still hasn’t cleaned up or fixed the sprinkler line he broke. All I get is the run-around. So I decided to post a review on Yelp and Google, and found other reviews that were not there when I checked out the reviews a few weeks prior. He had been busy scamming others as well, all within the past month while he was scamming me. I’m hoping to reach as many people as I can before more get scammed.
