I have something to say about this company on both sides; as a former employee and as someone who feels for the contractors they hire.

To Any Prospective Employee (even Current Employees),
I hope you did some research for this company before deciding to work for them, one way or another. I truly hope that was how you found your way to this page. I saw this site and read the complaints of several former contractors talking about how they were never paid for their services. I believed that the stories on this board were only based on a small number of those who had been contracted by the company. Within a week of working for the company, certain things were starting to not make sense.

I noticed that several people were given new territories at random. Each territory covers hundreds of contractors and thousands of stores. It's pretty much impossible to find out everything that you need to know about every store and each company who services the store. Every time I had to contact a contractor about when they were planning on servicing their stores for the month, they always asked about the money. Every time I mentioned it to my bosses, they told me that I had to contact someone in accounting. Every time I tried to contact someone in accounting (which was several times per week), the phone would ring and ring and ring. I was told that the contractor would have to email the woman who handled payments in accounting. It got to a point where I sincerely started to feel guilty every time I relayed that information to the contractor because it felt like such a lie.

To Those of You Who Have Been Contracted to Do Work for This Company,
DON'T!! Read the other complaints about this company and their unwillingness to pay. There were people that I spoke to on the phone who had not been paid in months. A receptionist that worked for the company I was working with hadn't been paid because Level 1 had not held up their end of the deal. By working with this company, you stand the chance of losing thousands of dollars from doing work you will NEVER be paid for. Do you really want to put yourself and your staff through that? No. Find a better company to get work for. Please.

To Those of You Who Have Done Work for the Company and Haven't Been Paid,
I hope you guys get together and sue. I really do. I honestly think that you should call around to your fellow contractors who have worked for them and do a class action lawsuit. There are probably more companies who have done "business" with them in your area than you would think. Give them a call and keep fighting for what they owe you.

I've been separated from this company for several months. I believed that they were within weeks of going under. I'm very surprised that they have still been able to find contractors to work for them and that they have been able to keep their business afloat. I've moved on with my life and I am not writing this as a disgruntled employee or as someone who is looking for sympathy or anything like that. I'm really just writing this because I want to throw in my two cents about this company from how I saw it firsthand. I hope that this post does someone out there some good. I hope the best for those of you who have lost more than just money from this business venture.

Level 1 Maintenance contacted me in July wanting me to serve the 7-11 Stores on the Outer Banks and I began serving them On August 1, 2010. I have submitted my invoices on time and now the season is over they are telling me my Liability Insurance doesnt read the way they want it to read so they are not going to pay me for my services. I have no other recourse but to put a mechanics lien against the building which belongs to 7-11. Please be aware of this Company for I see they are not paying many .

THESE PEOPLE ASKED ME TO DO SOME POWER WASHING AND LINE STRIPPING FOR THE COMPANY. FIRST OF ALL THEY DONT TELL YOU YOUR GONNA GET PAID FORTY FIVE DAYS FROM WHEN YOU PAPERWORK IS SUBMITTED AND THEY TOLD ME THIS THE DAY OF ACTUAL START OF WORK I WENT AHEAD SERVICED OVER TEN 7-11 ALL OVER VA ITS BEEN WELL OVER 3 MONTHS OVER 45 DAYS PERIOD STILL NO MONEY THEY NEVER WANNA LET YOU SPEAK TO THE PERSON WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE ACCOUNTING. THEY ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE BY SUBBING OUT ALL THE WORK AND PROBABLY KEEPING THE MONEY I BELIEVE THEY ARE RUNNING A SCAM THERE IS NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS COMPANY I JUST WISHED I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO RESEARCH BEFORE STARTING WORK I THINK SOMEONE TOLD ME TO FILE A SMALL CLAIMS SUIT AT THE LOCAL COURTHOUSE TO GET THE FULL MONEY PLUS INTEREST AND COURT FEES ANYONE ELSE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED

This company contacted our company via the Yellow Pages and asked us to perform landscaping work for them for the 7-11's in Norfolk, VA.
They have paid us 1 small check for services since March 2010 and it was only partial payment. This is August 31, 2010 and they have not responded back to us when we called and left a message, they keep changing people around in their company so you never speak to the same person rarely if you do get someone on the phone. They give you a promise date and then you never get anything in the mail. Beware this company is not legit in doing business. They will keep sending you rejection letters to off set payment another 45 days so they can keep from paying you and will send you out to do more work and then send you a rejection notice saying they will not pay. We are at a stand still at this time and the only option is to go to small claims court or to an attorney. I feel the media needs to be informed so the businesses here in the USA are no longer being ripped off from this company.

I had a contract with Level 1 Maintenance beginning June 2009. In the contract it states that they will send checks 45 days from time they get invoices. I found this to be untrue. They pay when they are ready to pay or don't pay at all. My work orders are signed, My invoices are complete. I want to get paid. They are refusing. Any one else having this problem?