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Check the Belmont County, OH records befire hiring Hess Builders/Kelson Hess.

Kelson Hess talks a good game. He tells the homeowner what they want to hear. My job was a fairly simple remodel and he managed to screw it up. He submitted invoices for more than $10,000 over his quoted price. I signed change orders for about $1500. His M.O. is to submit a low bid to try to get the job, and then come back to the homeowner at a later point for more money. Several days when there was no work on my house, he sent workers to my house to pick up materials. When I confronter him about taking material from my house to another job, he said that the materials were his property, and that he would replace them for my job at his cost. I questioned him about why he didn't just pick up materials for other jobs at the supply house, and his excuse was that it was easier to use one of his jobs as a "distribution point" for materials. I could smell the B.S. and financial instability from a mile away. So I started asking about him at local lumber yards and supply houses. One of the employees at the supply house wouldn't tell me anything, but he wrote down a phone number, handed it to me and walked away. The number connected me to a homeowner in eastern Ohio that had recently fired Hess Construction for many of the same reasons that I was about to the same. That homeowner was forced to take on the task of acting as the general contractor on a very large, very expensive home. The homeowner subsequently sued Kelson Hess and Hess Construction and received a judgement of over $20,000 in Belmont County. Kelson Hess and Hess Construction filed for bankruptcy and the homeowner received nothing. And Kelson Hess got off scott free. Please don't take my word for it. It's easy to just post something on the internet. Do your own due diligence. GO TO THE BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO COURTHOUSE and pull the records for Kelson Hess and Hess Construction. One final note. After Kelson Hess and Hess Construction filed bankruptcy, he was working as a salesman at a local lumber yard. Judging by his website, it's easy to file bankruptcy and then go right back into business and then repeating the cycle. The website is below. DON'T FALL FOR HIS B.S. http://www.contractor.com/KHESSCONSTRUCT If you are considering using this "contractor", please look him up in the public records at the Belmont County, OH court records.