Negative Reviews left by victims of Johannesen Construction

Over the course of our ordeal with our experience with Peter Johannesen of Johannesen Construction we ran across and continue to run across a slew of victims. As these negative reviews build up Peter wipes his business listing clean or reports the review as abuse and YellowPages.com (YP.COM) removes it enabling Peter to cover up his unhappy customer's (victim) review. This is a grave injustice to the consumer because consumer x comes by and looks up this business and falls right into the trap. Each one of these following negative reviews were at once on these sites. I'm including the site I captured it from and the approximate date it was left.

Victim List

1. Source: yellowpages.com
nancyrodriguez635 11/18/2011 Please stay away from Peter Johannesen.
Please stay away from Peter Johannesen. He changes company name every time he runs away with money. Please check his BBB rating at Johannesen Construction and Johannesen Enterprises. Its sad that he can get away with stealing money from his innocent customers. We hired him for our kitchen work and never saw him after the down payment. He will promise you the world just to get the check. Once he gets his check, next day his BS starts. He will start with how he is doing you the biggest favor and will not be able to finish the job unless he gets more money. STAY AWAY and you will thank me..
 
2. Source: Kudzu.com
samr123 10/13/2011 Worst In town
Stay away from him. There are several honest construction people in Dallas. He will just show you one picture and do completely opposite. Ripped us off and left.. Check his BBB rating under Johannesen enterprises.. Worst possible decision of our life.. I can't imagine anybody giving him thumbs up. Those review sound fake and made up by him. Beg you to stay away..
 
3. Source: Yelp.com
Handy A. 10/13/2011
Peter is a lying scumbag and a coward. Don't worrry about his threats, he's an empty windbag. He is a rip off as the contractors he uses will atest to. People beware of this idiot, he does not know construction and he certainly will only take your money and run.
 
4. Source: Insiderpages.com
Liz R. 09/06/2011: Warning to all home owners

Pretty certain that this review will not result in any comfort for me but I hope that this will help another home owner who will surely go through what I went through with Peter Johannesen (formely known as Johannesen enterprises--current name/ business alias is Johannesen Construction).

Let me start by saying this--this guy is a born crook and a THIEF. He is very charming initially and will convince you that he is the best contractor around. Unfortunately, you will find soon that he has a long standing history of walking away from jobs once he has made a homeowner put half of the money for the project, up front. He doesn't follow up on the project for weeks and doesn't return phone calls or e-mails, no matter who calls. We were left hanging dry after we hired him as he literally walked away with our deposit (half of the money for the entire project) afterjust finishing up only 20% of the renovation. We had to hire another contractor and had to pay for all the material and labor once again. Frankly, we ended up losing thousands of dollars because he just completely disappeared. Wish, I had read some of the reviews on here and after some digging up, I found he is actually the same guy who is listed with the Bestcontractors Website. Apparently, contractors can pay a few hundred dollars and get registered with best contractors website and us consumers fall into the traps set by crooks like him. Lastly,I will just have one piece of advice--PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF FROM GETTING RIPPED FROM HIM AND RLiN AWAY FROM JOHANNESEN ENTERPRISES/ JOHANNESEN CONSTRUCTION as you will not be pleased with the outcome.

5. Source: Insiderpages.com
Michael B. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY
Peter Johannesen is a scumbag. He comes off as knowlegable and honest and is anything but. He took our deposit money and ran.I've spoken with others and he has a history of this with Johannesen Construction, Johannesen Enterprises, Brushstroke something. He's a loser and I would be willing to bet he wrote the glowing reviews himself. STAY AWAY! (i HAD TO GIVE ONE STAR TO POST THIS IT WOULD REALLY BE -10)
 
6. Source Kudzu.com
Lucasp 8/17/2011 Stay Far Away from Peter
Do anything don’t give Peter any money in advance. He runs his business under Johannesen Enterprises as well and has over 11 complaints in BBB in just 1 year. Took money never finished work had to hire other contractor to finish his job. Stay Far Far Away.
 
7. Source Kudzu.com
Nancyro 8/17/2011 Wouldn't Recommend
The finished work product was adequate, but only because I was there to make sure everything was done correctly (after all, isnt that the Contractors job?). When contacting the CEO/Contractor of Johannesen Construction, Peter, about problems we experienced during the remodel, he was unresponsive leaving my husband and I to "clean" up the pieces and resolve the problems on our own. Peter showed up to our home only at the beginning and the end of the project to receive his check for the services rendered. After the final check was issued, we contacted Peter about repairing our porcelain tub, which began to chip a week after the project was finished. Yet, despite his continued promises to make the repairs "soon", nothing ever becomes of these false promises to do so. We have since filed a complaint through the BBB in Dallas and Peter has not responded. Something of interest, Johannesen Construction used to be Johannesen Enterprises. One search of Johannesen Enterprises on BBBs website reveals that he has an F rating with BBB and has had MANY other unresolved complaints against him (and these are ONLY the complaints from the past 12 months). I encourage you to review these complaints and think long and hard before hiring Johannesen Construction. His estimates may be on the low end, but I feel that his lack of integrity and his lack of responsiveness is not worth the lower prices on his service. If you do choose to work with Peter, just realize that if you have issues with the

Peter Johannesen.

Peter Johannesen runs the following companies; Johannesen Construction, Johannesen Enterprises, Five star construction

Peter Johannesen's rhetoric states it's a family owned business yet the only history we can find is starting in 2009 in the DFW area. His companies have 9 complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau.. [ More Details here ]