Five Ways To Get Your Money Back From Bad Contractors

I hired a contractor I have paid him a total of $18,000 and the work on my house it’s still yet to be done what can I do

I paid a contractor $5500 to finish my patio project and he keep ignoring my calls and is not showing up. I am in Houston, TX. Does anyone know if its a violation of state law and what is that law and its terms. can anyone please revert.

If a contractor screws you over check in with your states Contractor’s license and registration Agency. Usually the department of buildings or department of consumer affairs. I had a terrible experience with someone who claimed to know how to do the work. He didn’t. He violated every aspect of the contract. Had he been forthcoming I would have easily parted ways after firing him and he could have taken the money I already paid him, but he had the audacity to invoice me for 10,000 dollars and demand it and started threatening me. So I sued the crap out of him (not small claims court) I sued the crap out of him for civil and consumer fraud. Those are your best options because you’ll get every dime back even if it takes a year lol just seeing him destroyed gave me peace of mind…. such an arrogant little boy he was.

I hired Metropolitan home improvement and paid 6 figures. He provided nothing but subpar work. His workers used my brand new toilet. He refuses to provide receipts. He brought materials and other stuff in my house without my approval. I asked for a REFUND since last year. He ships supplies and expects me to put it in my house. Now he refusing to finish the job. Also the electrical wasn’t changed because my fuse keeps blowing. Plumbing is still bad as before yet he claims it was changed. Almost caused my house to burn down by connecting my dryer to my oil burner. I’m in New York and need assistance. I tried BBB and Consumer affairs. Please tell me my options. He was referred to me by National Housing Renovation Program. Everything was suppose to be custom but instead a major NIGHTMARE

Previous comment by Bob Conroy. The contractor will not respond to text messages our phone calls to his driver Or To his C+S construction company

Bad contractor in Idaho nothing but excuses owes money to subs fraudulent out four months and have paid don’t use wimrich construction INC or Mark Wimpee

So my contractors took me for thousands of dollars; however, his trailer is parked in front of my house and could have thousands of dollars of equipment. My car is blocking it so he can’t take it away. How do I get possession of that trailer? Small claims court?

Has anyone sued and been awarded the cost of hiring their attorney (legal fees) in addition to what the cost of the claim?

this is coming from london ontario canada,”BUYER BEWARE” never buy a home from a northland industries or a pike lake modular homes,the also sell in some states mabee called innovations @ northlander and glass door

I entered into a contract with K-Designers out of Portland, Oregon on December 11, 2020 for a bathroom remodel. I provided a personal check for $7085 because I was told it would get the job going faster. The contract indicates work to be done between Jan 11, 2021 and completed by Feb 1, 2021 but I have been unable to get anyone to return my calls regarding starting the work. I have asked for a refund if they cannot return my calls and start work immediately but really would rather not continue to do business with them. I get the feeling no one should do business with them.

I hired a contractor to remodel my bathroom on May 8, 2020. I paid him upfront because my husband was in the hospital with cancer and I had fallen and broke my ankle. We needed a walk-in shower because we couldn’t climb the stairs. He was suppose to start right away. All he had was excuses why he couldn’t start. On No ember 23, 2020 I ask for my money back. He will not return it.

I hired a contractor to replace my bathtub in my basement bathroom and to refurbish my front porch. After removing my bathtub and starting to build a frame for the shower, I discovered he spent the $7000 I advanced him to pay his bills. I have had to hire another contractor to complete the bathroom and cannot afford to do the porch. What recourse do I have to get my money back? I live in Wichita, Kansas.

John Spires, I’m in La.

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever use Asset Builders. Ross Downing Jr ( son if Ross Downing, the car dealership guy) and some guy named Brandon own it.They basiclally stole $20,000 ftom us. We never got our kitchen cabinets. We ended up having to use another cabinet company and we payed them directly. Now our cabinets are coming and our walls aren’t done.

Also, none of the appliances are here or the bathroom fixtures, tub, shower, toilet…and they left live wires exposed including the main electrical wire. It was a remodel and rhey have endangered us our pets. Totally horrible experoence …tell everyone in Louisiana. We have photos. Tons. From when the nonsense started.
We are getting an attorney. That’s not all and sometimes social media rocks. Its not slander or liable if its true. Going to contact state licensing too.

I hired a company to do my pool. He keep avoiding my calls and text. Also he told me he’s licensed but he will not give me the lic number. He damaged my pavers and my yard. What can I do?

I live in Augusta, GA. In February I hired Chris Edenfield to do yard grading of a zmall sloped hill in my front yard and to install 2-3 catch basins to fix erosion. He calculated a bill over 12K and wanted half for the deposit. I put down 3K. Then he said because of how water ran on the property I should let him fix the back yard to “tie in” to the front yard. He wrote out another contract where cost to do this came to 3K. I wrote another check & paid for that. Hindsight it is the half he initially wanted. Next he came to request get 1.8K for the sprinkler estimate. I didn’t give it and asked for my money back. He said the “deposit” is nonrefundable & if I wanted my money back he’d see me on court. No address is on the the contract & he wouldn’t provide it when asked.
What can I do?

I hired plum point construction in napanoch ny to do work on my home we started with a porch snd was going to side my home , said my porch woukd be 1500$ I buy the materials, he asked for 4000$ down as that was a third of entire contract, so that he could purchase materials for siding , well he worked on porch never ordered materials, did some shotty work , because didn’t take time to use proper materials , he now is not doing siding since he coujd not be counted on to do this one little project correct or in ample time , as soon as I handed him the check he packed in gor the day and ran to the bank , I have yet to get my 2500$ back and now he claims he had too much to do in pirch and he’s now keeping entire money , well I told him if that’s the case u woukd be doing my entire home fir 2000$ labor which doesn’t make sense and won’t in the eyes of law when I pursue , so if anyone entertains idea of this company , DO NOT hire plum point construction , shady!!!

We hired a pool company to install a new liner. We have them $1450.00 at the end of March 2021. They came with the liner but the liner was the wrong size so now we are still waiting for the new liner. They keep telling us tales. They came to prep the pool yesterday and said they were coming back today. But nothing story after story!! What are we suppose to do ???

I hired a contractor for a new home build. He changed the California contract about down payments and only said 10%, he removed the part where it’s supposed to say or $1,000 or whatever is less.
We had difficulties getting through plan check and he told me that I needed to hire an architect so I hired the architect and the day that I got the revised plans he sent me a vague invoice with no dates or time or anything it just was a list of 13 items such as uploading plans to the county, time to print documents, calling the utility company to check on temporary power, calling the water department about a flow analysis. So the invoice said invoice at the top it listed 13 items and then it said $5,000. Well I had already contracted with him to build the home for 15% of the total cost which would have been about $57,000 but in order to get the plans to the county he wanted to tack on another $5,000 without a change order or a extra work order which is supposed to be done prior to the commencement of work. He sent me the invoice about 6 months into the project. We never broke around we still hadn’t gotten the permit and it just seems like he was always making things so confusing that we were going through plan check over and over and then I found out that maybe he wasn’t wanting to build the house maybe he just wanted to invoice me for not building the house. So if a contractor changes the required verbiage on a contract about the down payment and then he invoices you but the invoice has no details such as dates or how much time is that wrongdoing? I was thinking about going to the state contractors board. I always knew that I was going to have to pay for receipts for outside agencies and printing in those type of things but I never imagined that I was going to have to pay him to print items or make a phone call or upload the plans to the county I just thought that would be part of the duties that I general contractor would be being paid for considering that he would have been making $57,000 for building the home. Actually he’s a general contractor so most of the work would have been subbed out anyway so basically he was just a project manager. If anyone has any answers please reply.
Oh by the way we never did break ground we never got the permit. It always seemed like there was always a lot of mistakes he made.

After hurricane Irma I had my roof replaced. We signed a contract that said if there were any leaks within 5 years it was under warranty. Needless to say we had a leak and when I called them they wouldn’t honor the contract, would fix the roof. We paid money and could never get the todo the work. We got a lawyer and have spent almost enough money to have paid for a new roof. It is disheartening that my own lawyer took twice what the roofer did still with no results. My roof still.eats. What can I do?

I hired a contractor to replace my driveway. I gave him a deposit of 4ooo. He removed my driveway and decided not to do anymore work. After many phone calls to give him a chance to come finish the work. Contractor sent me a text stating if he didn’t get the work finish in the following week he would refund us some of the money back. Its been almost 3 weeks since and not contact has been made by contractor. I am in Virginia. I checked out his LLC and the address indicated isn’t legit. City of Virginia Beach indicate that he does not have a license.

Alldry got my contract after Florence 2018 it is now 2021 and just stopped working and the inspector said the work is 95% done i have no more insurance many to complete the job and i just found out from the city they got no permits nor do they have a license to work in nc. A worker stole all my jewelry they through out my stove and dishwasher a mattress and a dinette set. I was told they were going to replace the stove and dishwasher however that never happen. They were paid

I contracted National Floors Direct working in the state of Florida. After they took 30% deposit of 2,700.00 the day of the installation they showed up with the wrong color for the floors not at all what I had order. They said the job could not be finished because it was to big of an are. They told me it would take until after the hollidays. I told them absolubly not to even finished the install that’s not what i agreed on when the contract was executed. Now they wont refund my deposit. They are nothing but scammers working in the state.
Virginia Lange

Plum Point Construction 1 is ot a reputable business. He was hired to build a porch and side my home. I agreed to purchase the materials, and give him a deposit for the work to be done. He left the site to cash the $4,000 deposit check, immediately. He did not return for quite a few days. It took him a month to build a small porch, because he would work on it for about a hour at a time. He refused to do the trim work the way I wanted. A few days later, he decided he wasn’t going to finish the job. His work was sloppy and not nicely finished. He is unreliable.
I sued him in civil court and he issued me a small check with insufficient funds. DO NOT HIRE.

I recently got a bit of legal advice about this matter, if u have a faulty contractor best thing to do is call the ny state licensing board to report wrong doings of contractor , and they will look into matter and most likely pull their license so they cannot do business anyMore , well legally can’t! Every 1-2 years contractors have to renew , but with complaints especially as this they will most likely have to find a new business/ hobby if u will ! So good luck contractors who think can screw over your customers , shame on u all!

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I hired Texas Best Handyman & Remodel LLC Eric Baldwin to remove remaining bricks & apply siding from my mother’s home who is 99 years young. Not only was his work less than professional and did not measure up to the price he charged, he refuses to correct the shoddy workmanship performed after being paid $23,000. I have a balance of $3,000 which he is threatening to have his attorney to draw up paperwork for court & put lien on my mother’s home. How low can you go. I will have to hire someone else to right your errors and you know what that means.

I was scammed last month and had to look for a way to get my stolen funds back. I was referred to an expert and I texted him on ESTEEPMORGAN @ CONSULTANT . COM He make sure I recovered all I lost. I’m so speechless and surprised how it really happened

It is a pity that such situations happen, you give very valuable advice. But it is better not to get into such a situation and think everything through in advance, it is worth concluding a contract with the contractor and monitor his work, if you communicate with contractors remotely, you can use the construction management software https://fluix.io/industry-construction

Destiny Builders LLC out of Montgomery, Alabama duty of care has been nonexistent this whole process causing my husband and I health, safety, and well-being to be compromised. There have been times throughout the process that the builder’s subcontractors have removed personal items from our home, such as paint supplies, phone charger, and tools. In addition to this, he has made our home an open house to different unskilled people resulting in our personal property to be damaged and or broken, such as dresser, sofa, chairs, etc. In fact, there are deficiencies that still exist to this day. This includes but is not limited to the unleveled master bedroom shower not draining properly causing mold and mildew, the side of the front yard not graded properly resulting in standing water and insects breeding, and bricks not plumbed and pointed around the house. These defects caused by failure to complete the work in a professional standard based on design specifications resulted in damage and financial loss. In knowing this, the builder refuses to take accountability for his and his subcontractors’ actions. It has been over a year to where the builder has had many opportunities and extensions by the state license board and the VA failing to meet each one. It is a shame that anyone, especially Disabled Veterans, have to endure such behavior from a so-called professional. All I can say is BEWARE!

How would you calculate loss of use if a contractor removed your deck and did not replace it.

In February of 2022, we hired Richard Knott of Alpha Omega Development & Cutting Edge Door and Trim to build a casita in our backyard. He was an acquaintance of one of our sons, so we trusted him. He misrepresented his skills to us and claimed to have built a casita before. He gave us a bid of $150,800 and said it was the same as a contract. He said he required half down to begin, and we gave him a check for $78,500 (I know, so stupid!). He never even provided a receipt for this and I ended up typing our own receipt, in September (seven months later), and had him sign it. He told us he didn’t want us to worry about dealing with the City for approval of the plans. He submitted the plans with incorrect setbacks (which he should have known). It turned out we were heavily involved with the City throughout the approval process, which took nine months. We did all the legwork for the Special Use Permit ourselves. During this time, we continuously asked Richard for a valid contract and for proof of his insurance. He never supplied either. He had trusses delivered to our backyard in June, and had them placed on the ground. He was not present for the delivery and my husband had to go to Lowe’s to get tarps to cover them. They have been rained on continuously. After we finally received approval from the City, he stated he couldn’t build the casita for the price in his initial bid. That, coupled with the fact that he failed to provide the requested documents to us, left us no alternative but to cancel. He returned $48,800 of our money and kept $29,700! He charged us $10,000 for the trusses (still sitting in our backyard), $10,000 for his “time,” and $9,700 for the plans and windows. He did not provide original invoices for the trusses, windows, or plans; neither did he provide any breakdown of his “time.” We were completely ripped off by him.

I live in Atlanta, Georgia and hires a Sunroom Company 2 build, or extend my deck, but build a Sunroom on it. the Sunroom is attached to kitchen by a sliding door, which they put in. I was quite happy with the work, especially the sliding door, because the area was originally a double window. So, I hired the Carpenter to enclose my Exercise room. I paided him more than half of the price to start the project. Meanwhile, the first time it rained, the Sunroom got extremely wet. After, this happened they would fix on it, but it just kept leaking. Since it was the same Carpenter, he has never started on my Exercise room, as well, as the leaking in the Sunroom is not settled. I can tell this Company has moved on to other projects, because every time it rains, I take pictures. And he has stopped coming over as much, and when he promises to come over it is hit and miss. It is now going into 4 months, since we paid for the Deck and Sunroom, and we have never even lived in it. It is now, 5 months since I gave the Carpenter money 2 do the Exercise room. I have contracts, from the both of them, but hiring a Lawyer is so expensive. I m wondering what my options are? Can anyone give me some suggestions?

Imtnot sure of which state you live in, but we are in Kansas and we recently filed a felony theft against a “contractor” who scammed us for $ 22400 for a kitchen remodel. If the contractor does not pay us back in the designated time, he could face felony charges and prison. He will have a felony charge and will not be able to get licenses and possibly loans if he doesn’t pay us back. Anyone who checks this contractor’s records will see the felony charge. I’ve also filed a complaint with the BBB. Anyone checking on this contractor will see what type of business person he is.