Promise Construction Group

John and Elizabeth King of Promise Construction Group of Sarasota Florida are dishonest. They kept over 75 thousand dollars of an initial up front 23% payment for a 300K renovation project. They led me to believe they had pulled a building permit. 8 months later, there was no building permit, no work done, and completely no good faith to return the 75 K plus.

After Elizabeth King terminated the contract in a text message, her father panicked and stated that she overreacted and would make everything go smoothly. I trusted his word, a day later he stopped all correspondence stated after he was going to call me, instead by an email saying he had a sinus headache. Then no more from him at all. 12 weeks later not a day of work done, no communication and entirely bogus bookkeeping with dates and invoices that don’t add up.

Promise Construction came recommended from another owner whose unit in the same building that John King helped another contractor renovate all seemed good to go.

Then things started to get odd. The units are mirror images such that Elizabeth’s initial Cad drawings had the other contractors name in the margin that John king had done work for., essentially copied the wiring, plumbing but forgot to take the other builders name off the plans.

The communication from John King was horrible and most definitely dishonest.

Be very careful with PCG.

Needed a lawyer and John King is equally crafty so far representing himself with bits and pieces of impossible to follow invoices he emails himself to the attorney. He stops correspondence for weeks at time then resurfaces with an email stating he was at a trade show or somewhere else.

The information he offers in piecemeal changed from over the weeks.

Completely unnecessary from an established professional. Questionable about how someone like that would bother or risk creating professional exposure. Unless of course they’re more powerful in other ways?

No accountability - certainly not John King’s first rodeo he’s possibly a better spin doctor than contractor. At least in my case. Since he nor anyone did a single second of physical work, never obtained a building permit and had not refunded any money which with added costs is about 79K.