Alex Sandor Szamosi

Sandor «Alex» Szamosi mainly advertises his services on Craigslist in the East Bay, but following our experience working with him on our bathroom remodel, I felt that he deserved his very own Unilocal page!
We found Alex on craigslist while searching for bathroom remodeling services. He didn’t show up for the first appointment we had set for him to come to our house to bid on the project, and if this had not been my very first time hiring a worker, I would have known better and left it at that. The next day however, he called and apologized profusely, so I scheduled another appointment. He gave us a good quote and timeline, and a few days later we met at Home depot to purchase miscellaneous materials to get the job done.
We agreed to pay him $ 100 at start of project, as well as $ 100 per day of work. The entirety of the remodel was scheduled to last a week, but 3 days into the job (and $ 400 down the toilet) he still hadn’t even completed the demolition. In frustration, thinking perhaps he had underestimated the work involved in the demo (its a 100 year old house and the floor was tile over a 3″ slab of concrete/​chicken wire) my husband and I finally rolled up our sleeves and decided to help out. Unfortunately, after 3 hours of work, we had completed the entire demolition and realized that it wasn’t a question of time, but one of motivation and honesty.
Planning to have a long chat about progress and restructuring of payments, we arrived home to find a note saying he had ‘hurt his back and would call later that night’. All of his tools had been removed from the house. It probably wont come as a shock, that he never called, nor did he respond to any calls or texts.
The kicker, was that in addition to taking $ 400 for what we can estimate to have been less than one complete honest day of work, he forgot a tool when he took off in a hurry, and a few days later we found evidence of one of our window screens having been cut from the outside and someone trying to raise the window. Charming.
Please learn from the mistakes that I foolishly made myself and do NOT work with this man.