Alright, so my review copy is finished. Great things about his work was the willingness to change what I asked. His communication was great and made the changes as I wanted on the logo. The logo isn't the very best, but I would say he prices it out pretty honestly.
The content was great, however the 5 articles were pasted in the posts, so I had to go in to the individual posts and add the <p></p> tags because spacing was funky.
Took longer than the 5-7 days advertised, but I would say worth the $40. He also added some tweets advertising the site.
I may get a few other domains off the shelf and have him set them up...