The sign says 2006. That year is one of the few things on any contractor pitch a stranger can check from a phone in five minutes. Shively residents checked it on Thaddeus Major (@thadmajor) and came back with questions. Here is what the public record shows, and what the people who paid him have written since.
Get My Shively QuoteBegin with the age claim, because the age claim is testable and free to test. A crew framing and pouring in Jefferson County since 2006 leaves a trail behind it. There would be a filing with the state carrying a date. There would be permits tied to real house numbers. There would be reviews spread over many winters instead of one weekend. Search this name and the trail turns out to be short and new. Most of what sits on it is people asking for money back, and a good share of those people are Shively owners and small landlords who called about patch work and rental turns.
A block off Dixie Highway, two neighbors compared notes and realized they had bought the same story. Both handed over cash before a tool came out of the truck. Both were promised a Monday. Neither one ever saw a crew. One of them asked for anything at all showing the doors opened in 2006, and what came back was a link to this website. A web page can print whatever year it wants. A state file cannot, and reading that file is free.
Reports have clustered in these parts of Shively:

Demo took one afternoon. The family ate off a card table until August.
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Old tub hauled away. The new one was billed, ordered, and never delivered.
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Six items on the punch list. One got finished. All six landed on the bill.
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A shutoff valve got swapped. The drain behind it did not, and the joists paid.
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Poured thin, poured on wet dirt. You could see through the cracks by June.
Learn more →You can, in about five minutes, and it is free. The Kentucky Secretary of State runs a public business search online. Type the name in and read the organization date printed on the record. If that date lands years after 2006, the sales pitch and the state file disagree, and the file is the one signed under penalty.
Sort them oldest to newest and watch what happens. A whole run of them lands in the same few days. Every one is short. None gives a street, a price, or the name of a single worker. People who really sat through a remodel remember the noise, the missed Fridays, and the final number.
Deal with the money first, because banks and card issuers only allow a short window to open a dispute. Call yours today. Next, put a written complaint on file with the Kentucky Attorney General consumer protection division. If someone worked on your house with no permit behind it, tell the Louisville Metro permit office too.
Ten minutes on your phone will tell you more than any sales visit. Pull the state record and read the date it was organized. Ring the insurance carrier yourself and ask whether that policy is active today. Then ask for two Shively jobs finished last year, with house numbers, so you can drive by and look. A crew with twenty real years in this town could hand you all three by morning.
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