RBInstallations

Professional Con Artist - STAY AWAY - Same con since 2014

Same experience and pattern as experienced by Chris, Omid, Bill and Mike. Maria was planted as a decoy. I wish I would have seen this before! Note - he has since dropped the RB Installations name and goes by "Rob". Found him in Kijiji with a pretty ad pictures.

Plaster Repair Work in Century Old House in Brantford - Contract entered on August 15 2019. for $5,200.00 which he later reduced to $4,700. I paid him $4,000 in total representing 85% of the money for 25% of the work done that was totally inadequate. All of which must be redone. I have received another quote from a reputable company for $10,200 to fix the mess he created.

Robert Brewer is a con artist that collects as much money in advance of the work, and has no intention of completing the work. That is the scam. there are currently 5 complaints on trusted pro of customers that have had the exact SAME experience stemming back to 2015 that we know of. Many folks unfortunately do not report these type of incidences because they are embarrassed and just want to get on with the work. I am very embarrassed as well now in financial hardship due to the delay. I hired Rob just after I had paid somebody a $1,700 deposit and he left with no word after 3 weeks and Rob was aware of this as well.

Con artists make money through deception. They lie, cheat and fool people into thinking they've happened onto a great deal or some easy money, when they're the ones who'll be making money.

Here is the con (just like the others)

- Shows up very promptly to inspect the job and says he is a perfectionist

- Comes back with a detailed quote, a very fair price and promises to complete the work asap in a good time frame.

- Wants money payments asap 50% within the first week. Comes a few times during that week so it looks like he is committed.

-Then starts the excuses why he is not there, sick,car trouble, kids, wife working, back is out, flu, cold and so on and so on. Something in his eye and so on. Doctor told him not to work, he has to take his kids out for Halloween - You name it - every excuse in the book.

- Does not respond for days and weeks - I kept on him, and on him so I drove him crazy.

- Does not answer the phone and will only text you.

- Goes by alias Rob now, dropped RB Installations because of complaints on TrustedPro - to deceive

- Wants a cash business - no audit trail - I have the e-transfers for documentation

- Keeps stringing you along...so that you get fed up and tell him not to come back.

- Shifts the blame on the customer.....me...

- Makes his money by pulling Multiple scams like this at one time.

- Relies on the fact that most people will just let it go because it is too much trouble to go after the money -

- Threatens you with a lien on your house. Intimidating. Tells you to stop calling and texting or else... Creates fear and is a bully

- Ignorant and Arrogant - extremely rude. He has the traits of a narcissist

- Promised the job for August 29th 2019 and I finally gave up on January 16.

- Made the following payments - to his wife Michelle Brewer

August 15th - $1,050

August 20th - $1,050

Oct 26th - $1,050

Dec 24th - $900

Never returned as promised after that. I asked him to please return my $900 since he had no intention of completing the job. His response to me was "Good one, LIL" but he meant LOL. and told me he already took his tools. And then referred to me as "joke"his proves he never intended on returning. He took the money knowing he had no plans to complete the work. He slapped a bunch of plaster on the cracks to make it appear that he did work but in reality it was a scam.

I have all of the text messages as documentation for full disclosure. I never deleted them as well as photos and a new estimate from a reputable company. I will upload photos and all of the text messages - numerous and numerous messages.

Do Not Hire This Thief!! He is prompt to come to your house ,look at the job and give you a good price. He will a ask for a deposit to get started. once he has your money this is when his games and lies begin. He has a million excuses of why he cant make it to your house. he only communicates via text. and once he has enough of you texting him he will ignore you. After some further investigating of this so called contractor on line i have found that my experience with this thief is sharred by many others...

He came to my home, gave a price for tiling a bathroom. wrote a very detailed contract.

Day 1 played with contract wording and although he was supposed to supply some material I had to go buy it....

Day 2 comes for 1 hour and leaves

Day 3 same as day 2

once received a substantial instalment of payment never shows up again.

His work was botched wouldn't answer his phone, destroyed material I bought ended up costing me more than double to correct.

STAY AWAY

PLEASE DO NOT CALL THIS GUY!

Please ignore the review from Maria from Hamilton, I can't say there is an honest word describing Rob Brewer in her review, Mike from Dundas and Corey from Grimsby nailed it on the head, Rob would show up whenever, Always after 11:00 AM, stay only for 2-3 hours then disappear, not knowing when he was going to show up, yeah he said he would be back the next day, not so, he has all the stories how he needs money for truck payments, gas money, etc. I needed a bathroom renovation done, the base slopped away from the drain, the wall tiles in the centre had a 1/2" gap to the floor, The walls were not level, so after installing the shower doors, I cannot get the shower door to seal!

after a week of not being able to get a response from Rob, he finally showed up!, I explained I was unhappy with his work, he said he was embarrassed, and he was going to get me new tiles and fix it properly, he went to get the tiles and said they were back ordered, two days later, he said they hadn't come in yet, I went to Trusa, where he said he had ordered them and I picked the tiles up right then, I gave Rob too much money up front, to repair and complete the project cost me another $1500, I have not received a receipt for the monies I gave to him, which I will contact CRA about gaining a receipt.

Please save your money, He's only a huge headache!

It's to bad the ratings are 1-5, because this guy deserves an 0

Rb Installs is a professional company that my family and friends have been using for years. Our contracts state their will be a work stoppage if the payment schedual is not adhered to and my thoughts are these people both did not forfill their part of the contract and make payments as required. Robert is a stand up guy and never had an issue. Rob is so hard working that he will go to 2 or 3 job sites per day. Highly recommended by our family and a top notch workmanship second to none.

RB is NOT a trusted pro.

I hired Rob after seeing his company posted on this website and what a mistake it was.

He promised the job would be done in 3 weeks and at week 11 after paying him far to much in advance we have asked him not to come back to our house.

Our experience was exactly what was written in the other review here. Show up around 11 leave by 2 or 3 and then tell you he was sick, or taking care of some other family issue when he would not return for another week without notice.

We will take the loss and bare the consequence of hiring him, I just want to ensure no one else hires RB Installations from this website.

Hired Rob to complete three rooms in my basement ,a laundry room , a bathroom , and a office . He gave us a estimate and seemed really fair and said he would be done in a month.He told his business was legit and he was a licensed contractor, no i know my fault for not checking or asking to see but we trusted him. So first week gave him about 50 percent of quote and the first week he took he started the demo , went alright .The second week he started showing up when he wanted never before 11 o clock , but at start said he would work long hours and weekends , this guy never worked over 4 hours a day and he missed a week saying he was sick but as we found out he was doing other jobs. So about 3rd week still has not completed a room, he said he was out of money so we gave him more , we are now up to 85 percent of the quotation and i will be fair about 10 percent of job completed . A couple of more weeks go buy and again says he is out of money, we have meeting and.f he is a smooth talker < we fall in again says we have gone over budget but this will be the last time he needs money.He works a little harder for a day or two and than begins not to show up again, so we ask where is our money going and ask for receipts, i thought that was our right.So we agree for him to bring receipts to the house after we talked. So that morning he takes his sign off the lawn and tries to walk in my house and take his tools and leave. My wife said no and he did leave the house and called the police. The police came and looked around and began a investigation of fraud, that's how bad the work was. So sorry to drag, but we have given him 12 100 dollars and the quote was for about 11000. The completed work equals out to be about 25 percent of the job. We had a plumber to inspect his work , and its all wrong and will freeze so has to be redone that will cost 1500. and No legit contractor will touch the job without starting the job over which will cost 4000 dollars to rip his work out.So please do not let this happen to u , as he wont answer phone calls and we have no basement to live in. thanks for the time. And please do not this guy do this to u. Please ask for licenses and everything and don't give too much money to anyone that has a business card.

I would like just to show the work I paid full price for, all three completed rooms and stairway> Please go youtube and search reno gone bad by Stacey Dearman. In the video is work done by RB installations and he is on Kijji as well going by RB installs