Robert Furer of Elbe Real Estate is someone you need to steer clear from…read more Me and my husband were interested in a studio under his listing and that's our first mistake: 1. I confirmed with him an hour before our showing he said he'll reconfirm with my husband instead of just saying okay or just accepting it. Why do you need to reconfirm half our before, especially after even speaking with you that morning. 2. Said it'll be him showing it to us, 5 on the dot. After we got there all the sudden the super or "management" is suddenly filling in. We waited over 30 minutes after "he's on his way" "let me see where he is I'll call him again" the guy was inside the building the whole time unknowing to our waiting for him. So much for "he's on his way" 3. Two broker fees is illegal. The super even agreed. "It's for my partner" the ONE broker fee is split if it's between two agents, and then he tried to bargain that we should meet him in the middle. The studio was so run down, broken shelves, paint peeling off the ceiling, the smell of cat piss.... come on. We're newly weds looking for our home ( we ended up finding someone who actually helped us in the end at a better brokerage!) this was a shit hole that we actually considered because we would've gave it love and spruced it up. I hope this all makes sense. Oh and getting him to answer the phone at first.. don't hold your breath.

The best Real Estate service ever. If I can say only one…read moresingle word about this company, I would say - TRUSTABLE Great job. Keep doing

Joao (John) - By far the best paint work I've have ever seen. We had significant indoor and…read moreoutdoor painting done at our house in Ocean and Joao did the best work I've ever had done. He if tidy, honest, efficient and very good. I will have him do painting at our residence for as long as he is around. Simply fantastic. We started having him do paint work for us at our house in Ocean Grove and just kept in touch. BTW - He does great drywall work!

I got a few quotes from a few different house painters in the NYC metro area, This painter gave me…read morethe best price, but also, I felt he was being honest about what he stated he was going to do from the get go. John was a pleasure to work with before and during the job, The job is now done. (plastering and painting two rooms where the ceilings and walls were a mess). He did a great job for a great price. I am now going to use him to paint the white window gates on the outside of my home and then my kitchen, hallways and bathroom. His quotes for those jobs are great as well, So glad a friend recommended this painter to me,

Sloppy. That's the one word I would best use to describe this painting company. I hired Ben and his…read morecrew to paint my apartment last December, and ultimately I wish I had gone with a different painting crew. The problems were myriad, including: 1) A shoddy paint job showing a lack of attention to detail. As you can see from my attached photos, there were large splotches of mismatched colored walls in my closet, and a doorframe to one of my closets was obviously not painted carefully as evidenced by the poor finished product. Dried speckles of paint were sprinkled literally all throughout my apartment's floors. I spent well over 8 hours cleaning off all of the dried paint that these guys left behind on my apartment's floors, so they quite clearly do not cover the floors with any protective layer, nor do they demonstrate any care when doing the actual painting. 2) Garbage left in my sinks, and dried paint left behind all over my sinks and bath tubs. Totally understandable that these guys would wash their equipment in my apartment, but totally unacceptable for them to leave a mess of dried paint caked all over my sinks and bath tubs that I had to clean myself. 3) Poor communication and lack of follow up when these problems were brought to their attention. I sent numerous emails to Ben about these problems and gave him multiple opportunities to fix them, but he simply stopped returning the emails. Clearly, Ben and his company show little concern or care for ensuring customer satisfaction. All in all, I would absolutely NOT recommend hiring Ben and his crew for your next paint job. While they are definitely not the most expensive paint crew, the old adage 'you get what you pay for' is quite evident here. The shoddy craftsmanship, piss poor communication, general carelessness and inattention to detail, and disregard for customer satisfaction all add up to money that is most definitely not well spent here, and I would highly recommend NOT hiring Ben and his crew to paint your next project.

Zero liability, shady work and horrible service. Ben…read morepainted our apartment while we were not present. He was supposed to paint the whole apartment but he deliberately skipped some areas including a partial wall painted in gray primer where the whole apartment is painted in white. Upon reaching out to him (in the rare case he answered the phone) he was pretending to be nice but actually was not willing to come finish the job and kept postponing and then not answering the phone. We had to chase him down for more than two months and ended up giving up and hiring another contractor to finish the job.