My parents recently hired Eddy Jabre, the owner of Atrium Custom Homes to build their home in Colrain MA. At first, he sweet talked them, and they trusted him. They truly believed he was a good person and would do a good job. After he designed their home, doing a good job actually, they trusted him enough to hire Eddy as their contractor. They paid for everything in advance, putting their entire life savings into his hands. He charged very expensive rates, which would have been okay if he had done what he was supposed to. I remember my dad asking me if I thought $800 for a shower door was expensive - not a glass door, not an entire shower unit, just a plastic shower door. That's just one small example of his con.
Eddy Jabre took over $20,000 for work that he NEVER did. He stopped returning their calls, and finally sent an "apology" letter, saying that the economy hit him hard and he wouldn't be able to do the work. Whether that's true or not, he took their money to do work, and now he claims he does not have the money and will not do the work.
To make matters worse, the work he did have done was far below subpar. Within 1 year, the roof of my parents house started leaking terribly, and water was literally pouring into their house, causing permanent damage to wood and paint. The jacuzzi was broken during the installation, and he refuses to fix it. The workers he had build the house were probably illegal aliens, and were not certified - they didn't speak a word of English, and would consistently drink on the job, without even hiding it. One night, my parents came back when the house was still in construction, and found an empty 30 rack around the worker's area. To this day, their are Bud light cans from the workers spread all over the property. They had no clue what they were doing, and screwed up all kinds of things. Now the porch roof has to be completely re-done, because it was not designed to allow water to drain. According to the experts my parents have had to bring in to fix all kinds of things, nothing was built with things like carpenter's squares and standard carpenter practices that new houses should be constructed with. Sliding drawers in the kitchen are already falling apart, the light and fan in one of the bathrooms was never hooked up, and this list goes on. Eddy of course will not fix anything, and will not do the $20k of other work that my parents prepaid him to have done. I keep telling my dad to sue him, but my parents are such nice people, that they are reluctant to dedicate their time to such negativity, although I think I'm pretty close to convincing them to do so.
I hope that justice will be served in the court of law, and hope to see you there soon Mr. Con Man.
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