Client Reviews of Richard V. Ballantyne, EA

My experience with Van Ballantyne has been incredibly stressful, frustrating and disappointing. He is a fraud and a bold faced liar, and I would not recommend using him or his firm, Counting House in Stratham New Hampshire, under any circumstances. I came to Van and Counting House 2 years ago after moving to NH from CA, and explained the needs of my small business. Van promised me the moon, that they would help me organize my finances and grow my business from 2 employees to 5, which was my goal. Rather than deliver on these fairly straightforward promises, Van and his "team" spent most of our working relationship ignoring my emails, giving me incorrect or vague information and then lip service when I called out their incompetence. Van and my assigned Accountant, Michele Dreznek, seemed to be on vacation more often than not and Michele even took a 2 week vacation in late April without finishing my 2016 returns or any of the Q1 P & L statements - all of which I had paid for months in advance. I have paid Counting House over $12,000 in addition to wasting countless hours trying to get them to deliver the work, and gotten nothing but a giant headache in return.