Business ProfileforKomlos Design Group

We hired Mr. Komlos and he brought on a contractor that had a seperate contract. The contractor's contract had a much bigger budget due to the age and state of the rooms. With Mr. Komlos' contract, he stated our budget at the top, and then his retainer fee (which he claims isn't included in the budget) at the bottom. We gave Mr. Komlos his retainer fee of $2k, and then two other checks totaling our budget. For the first month, we kept asking him if what he was buying was in budget. His answer was always "Yes." I was asking him for receipts. He said that he doesn't share that information because it's "proprietary information." So, we started asking him for a statement. We got the statement a month after the project started, and Mr. Komlos had already spent the entire budget, and the project wasn't even halfway finished. My wife and I were furious, and his response was, "It is what it is at this point." So, to finish the project, we had to spend thousands more than the original budget. Then, at the end of the project, he comes and hands me a bill for $5k. This was 66% over budget. When confronted about if he knew we were at our budget after the first month, he admitted to me that he didn't even look at the numbers until a few days before he gave us the statement. Then, said that he had to buy extra things because of the "general dilapitated condition of the rooms." The contractor said that fixing the rooms was not part of Mr. Komlos' budget, but it was on the contractor's budget. Then he said that the granite people haven't been paid and that they would put a lein on the house. However, in Mr. Komlos' statement, he had alotted enough of our money to pay for the granite. I called the granite supplier and they confirmed that it has not been paid. I told them that Mr. Komlos has our money to pay for it, and their exact words were, "That amount would cover it and then some. I don't know why he just doesn't pay us if he has the money."