Painter horror stories!

[Ben Riechmann]

This is the one profession where I have run into people that everyone says they can do it but that does not mean they are quality!  Sometimes a college kid ends up doing better than someone who has been painting as a "professional" for 20 years!  Lol.  So what you pay really does not mean you are going to get a better job.  I try to warn new investors of this all the time.  Really important to check references and find people you know that have used the painter before.  If I have the time, I often like to do it myself, but nowadays often do not have the time.  If you find a good one, it is good to keep that one.  We hired ones to paint one of our brick building, came highly recommended.  They got paint strokes down the brick wall hall where they were not supposed to be painting at all.  Looked like they were drunk where they were supposed to paint, although our head of maintenance let them in and checked on them and unfortunately did not check the work.  It is good to have workers take pictures during their work progress and send them to you if you can't be there.  These were new painters that we tried once that we never used again.  Do you have any painter stories?

[Julie Hartman]

@Ben Riechmann Yikes! We hired a couple who did interior painting to paint one of our vacant properties and we thought they seemed solid. We went over to check progress and found their dog running around inside the house and the couple were both smoking weed. We had used them previously without incident so who would have thought they would flake out.