Mr. Pedro Duquesne, of Casas Zoraya, is the representative of a company that builds homes. He has a loud booming voice and promises a lot of things in his initial interview, but later says he did not say those things. He asked for a $2,500 deposit to start the house plans and the government permits, which we gave to him in good faith, in the meantime, we started a bank application and we gave a down payment on a lot.
Both contracts, the bank application and the contract for the lot (which was done through Tiri (GMAC) had a deadline. This contractor lied to us on multiple occasions about the date when he would have the information for the bank ready, and took three months to produce a houseplan that had to be submitted to the bank to initiate the loan proceedings. He never filled out the contract that the bank sent him.
The owner of the lot was angry because we could not produce our documents on time due to the irresponsibility of Pedro Duquesne, and the bank cancelled our application. We had to renew each one, and after we thought we had a contract, Mr. Pedro Duquesne left for a trip and never sent the contract to us, nor did he revise the houseplan.
We called him several times and he did not answer the phone. The owner of the lot, an old greedy lady, wanted the money for her property quickly, and since the construction loan is based on the information provided by the contractor, she threatened us to not sell us the property because the contractor did not produce the information needed to initiate the loan.
We submitted a claim to the local (DACO) which would be the BBB for PR, but to this date, nothing has been done, and the representative of DACO who was at the hearing misteriously sided with the contractor. We gave Mr. Duquesne $2,500 in good faith and they promised to return us the money when we complained, and later said at the hearing that he had nothing to do with the bank's proceedings, and that the drawings were made so they were worth the $2,500.00, when he knows that if he does not submit his information to the bank, we could not get the bank to give the money to the lot's owner, nor could we get a loan.
I called their phone number, and it appears to be disconnected, and there is no listing of their company under Calle Betances, Bayamon, PR. They did business with the local Government, Bayamon Municipality, for the construction of houses, and for federal grants given to housewives to repair their roofs.
I do not know if they changed their name, went bankrupt or what happened. A decision still has not been made.
Iris
San Juan
U.S.A.
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