If you just need carpentry work, maybe Jesse is fine - but we hired him to manage renovations to our bathroom and laundry room (the pictures he's posting on his page today, actually). Terrible communication the whole time and everything was extremely disorganized.
Our entire purpose for hiring a general contractor was to not have to manage a bunch of subcontractors. Instead, we had to manage all of them AND him. I just don't think Jesse has the infrastructure in place to juggle multiple medium to large projects. He also needs to build a more reliable stable of subcontractors.
We were lied to multiple times during the project, and then lied to about being lied to (which is fun when most everything is in text messages). We basically had to stay on him 24/7 to make sure anything at all got done. Our "2 to 3 week" project just wrapped up at the start of week 10. The one bright spot was Bryan, who did amazing tile work and seemed just as frustrated as us with the poor scheduling and communication.
Honestly, I was going to point by point go over what went wrong but it isn't worth any more of my time. Save yourself the headache and just manage subcontractors yourself.
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