Signs Someone Shouldn’t Work on Your Property

If you call out Sundance Alba on his gross misogynistic comments and attempts to manipulate you, he’ll give you a fake apology to your face… and quit instead of finishing up the project for which you paid him.

The Worst Handyman in the Galaxy waved so many red flags. It’s too bad a bull wasn’t running around loose in the neighborhood.

One of the first things he said was, “I talk a lot because I have ADD.” I kept telling myself he needs to be given a chance. He’d recently moved from Denver — several states away — and said his van was robbed after he moved here and all his tools were stolen. Sorry not sorry: using ADD or another disorder as an excuse to be unprofessional isn’t okay. Now it feels like another example of manipulation.

Between his stolen tools, his having ADD, his poverty (he was a sober alcoholic living in a communal home for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics), and his claim that he’s half Mexican and half Puerto Rican (although he’s so light-skinned and so American you’d never guess), I kept giving him allowances. Narcissists and narcissistic sociopaths manipulate their targets with sob stories.

This predator was working on my house and sanctuary. He was polluting my property with his presence for months, working slowly and “because he has ADD” getting distracted and working on other things, such as cutting down trees when he was supposed to be caulking the siding. Hiring someone to work on your house isn’t a charity. If they don’t deserve your trust, they have no right to be on your property.