PSA: That "handyman" I hired left me with a mess I'm still fixing
So last spring I hired this guy off Craigslist to fix a leak in my roof... seemed nice enough, had a truck with a ladder rack. He patched it up in about an hour, charged me $200, and I thought it was fine. Then we got a heavy rain a few weeks later and water was dripping through the same spot again, plus two new ones. I get up there to look and he'd just slapped some tar over the old shingles without even pulling them up. Now I've got rot in the decking underneath that's gonna cost me a good 800 bucks and a full weekend to tear out and replace. The worst part is he called me back when I complained and just said "that's how I always do it" and hung up. Anyone else have a bad run-in with a cheap handyman that ended up costing way more in the long run?