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Complaint / Review
Episcopal Development And Hamdi Tamous
Ripoff

Dream Home turns into Nightmare Home:

I am reporting this company for me and my wife who are two senior citizens that were finally able to get the american dream, the purchase of a home. Our house was supposed to be completely newly renovated with all new wood, floors, doors, windows and everything that goes with a newly renovated home. This is to let everyone know about the problems me and my wife have had and continue to have in getting our renovated home properly repaired by the developer, Episcopal Development. The home contained concealed defects which I, my wife and my closing lawyer were not aware of until we moved into it.

For 18 months after the closing Episcopal Development kept sending the same contractor back to attempt to correct these defects which should and could have been corrected had they aggressively pursued the repairs with licensed and experienced professionals.instead they continued to send the same contractor (Hamdi Tamous) who did the inferior work in the first place.

During the renovation period which was supposed to take (6) six months which ended up being (3) years I immediately called Episcopal Development and was given the run around about the inferior work that was being done on my house. I would go by the house 3-4 times a week to see what kind of work was being done.

The first time I called I told them that the contractor was not letting the sheetrock meet at the ceilings and floors. I was told that I did not know what I was talking about and to stop being a trouble maker. I also told them that there was rotten wood all around the outside of the house and all around the inside of the house, the floors, windows etc. Episcopal had a person who was supposed to be checking on the work being done at the site who I never saw.

Finally this person told me that he would not talk to me about the house on the phone which came to be a blessing in disguise because I now have a paper trail of emails of me begging them to stop this contractor. I would email Episcopal almost everytime I visited my house and saw something being done wrong and this person would email me back with little snide remarks instead of trying to help us.

The nightmare continued the night of the closing at my lawyer's office. At the closing the person in charge of Episcopal Carla Lerman was being very nasty to me and my wife because of the complaints we had been making since the beginning. She kept calling (Herman White) and they decided to add some charges on to the closing that I had told them we did not want. (Have emails) If I had not agreed to the extra charges we would not have been able to close and I would not have been able to get this house.

Herman White and Carla Lerman came to my house about (3) three months after the closing and there lawyer told them certain things that the house needed, new roof and other corrections and Herman White would say there was no way he was going to replace anything in my house. The problem I have is that I have seen Episcopal do renovations in the past when they had someone else doing Herman White's job and they would totally tear down all of the sides and rotted wood etc. And totally renovate everything new.

I found out later that Episcopal knew of the terrible work that the contractor Hamdi Tamous was capable of, having used him before and had to get someone to clean up the mess he made. This contractor told me that he only wanted to get the $30,000 dollars that Episcopal owed him and get the heck out of my house. Me and my lawyer begged Episcopal not to give him this money but they gave it to him anyway. I have pictures, emails and videos of the water damage, the rotten wood, the water coming in our house and everything else that has gone wrong (to many to count). My pipes froze (3) three times the first winter.

I still have not been able to rent the apartment upstairs because of continued water damage and heating problems. The heat for the empty apartment for the first winter was $500 per month because of no insulation on the exterior of this house. Everything that I emailed Herman White and Episcopal about has come to pass. They have had to put a new roof on this house, had to re-do the insulation on the right side of the house. This is only after Hamdi Tamous made over 50 visits to stop the water from coming in.

He never had more than two men working at one time except for the roofers who quit and the siders who did not want to cover the rotten wood. They just came back a week ago from today 1/28/06 and said the wires on our furnace were all wrong and that is why we were getting not heat on the second and third floors. They have already replaced parts on the boiler twice before, mind you this is a new Champion boiler.

I have not been given any warranties on anything in this house yet. When I went before the City Council and read them my report, the Council president said that they would hold any further funding to Episcopal until my house was done correctly. I have had to beg over and over for any little thing they do and when they do things they treat our house as if no one lives here. They send people here sanding walls and ceilings with the dust going all over our food and dishes and then get nasty with us. We have been up until 2:00 and 3:00 A.M. Getting rooms ready for them to come and make a mess. My wife has to be to work at 6:30 A.M. And this is slowly taking a toll on her and my health. I have been cursed at (just get the Shi... Out of our way so the men can come and work.

I have been told not to say anything to the workmen and when a workman would point out some things that I had not seen they would not be able to come back. We have electric switches that do not go to anything. I have so much proof of everything I am saying that it's not even funny.in closing I would like to say I am really afraid of this company sending anymore workmen to work on our house, especially the boiler because I think they would try to find a way to just make our house including my wife and I go away.

If there is anyone out there that would like a copy of the video or can help us, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you so much for a this site. There is much more I have and would like to say but I will save that for a later date.

Edward
Newark, New Jersey
U.S.A.


Offender: Episcopal Development And Hamdi Tamous

Country: USA   State: New Jersey   City: Newark
Address: 31 Mulberry Street
Phone: 9734309986

Category: Construction & Repair

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