In the beginning, when we hired John (owner of Austin's Home Services) to do the inspection of our newly purchased manufactured home, he was really nice to work with and accommodating. After some discussion with John, I decided to hire him to fix the actual list of items from the inspection. I had John scheduled to replace the door knobs, repair missing roofing shingles, patch the belly bag, and level the home. Things started out ok. John came over the course of about 3 months and did everything but level the home. Since we had issues with the soil being too damp under the home, he thought it would be important to open a few panels to let the airflow in. Honestly, looking back with hindsight, the project really should have waited until summer for this to be completed. Instead John just kept saying we need to wait for it to dry out, and asked my daughter who lives there to open up the skirting for him. There were a few weeks in there where there were a lot of nice days but John said he was so busy and could not get there and progressively was getting worse in his communication. I was not sure why he asked my daughter to do HIS job and open up the skirting. My daughter felt VERY uncomfortable doing this as she didn't feel she knew what she was doing and didn't want to break any of the panels. After getting the run-around and because John was communicating with us so poorly, we continued to feel more uncomfortable working with him as each day passed. So, I fired him and said we would take care of it later. We settled up and at that time he owed us $20 for work we prepaid him for. That same day, John indicated he needed to come to the house and get his tools. My daughter did not want him to come unannounced, but to make a time for them to meet to get the tools. We both had previously asked for him to make arrangements. But that same day, my daughter came home to find the skirting at the back end of the home opened up, and we were sure it had to be him. No one else would have motive to go under there and a criminal would not put one of the panels back like we found upon investigation. John denied ever being there and was sure a criminal had to have been there. We called the sheriff and told John explicitly not to come the property and that everything needed to be done through the sheriff. Interestingly enough, John came boldly later that afternoon, saying FALSELY that he had the park manager's and the sheriff's permission to enter the property to get his tools! And that was what he did. He just walked in with his girlfriend and started taking more of the skirting off to get his tools, DESPITE the fact that both my daughter and I told him to wait and not come to the property! He was bold, disrespectful, and extremely unprofessional! The sheriff said that I did have the option to press charges against him for trespassing, but I didn't think he was worth it. I DID file a complaint with the sheriff's office who in turn told him never to come to the property again or charges of trespassing WILL be pressed against him! PLEASE consider carefully before hiring this man. He is very kind on the outside at first, but you can see what he is really capable of. I am sure I will never get my $20 back either. read more