We just got married and couldn't afford a bigger house so we decided to have an addition built on the back. We found a contractor that gave us a good price so we had a contract written up and gave him a down payment to get started.
Things weren't to bad in the beginning. As time went on he kept saying prices were up that he needed more money for plywood. But next week it was the same again. Then the exavation was suppose to be included but I had to give up more money for that. Also I made a agreement to trade my car for some work which wasn't done.
Well the price was suppose to be only 20,600 and finished by Oct. 1 ready to move in, well its now the middle of Nov. Still not finished but 29,000 dollars in the hole with no contractor.
He told us that his mother was in acoma over in Italy that he needed to go and he'd be back to finish when he comes back. He left his brother in law in charge of the money to pay a sub contractor to finish some things but not paying who wants to work.
Well he was suppose to be back on Halloween but we still haven't heard from him. The sub contractor went to see him and said he wasn't comming back to finish and we were going to get any money back. Then to find out that he was on vacation with our money.
I don't have the money to finish because I've been out of work due to a back injury. I haven't been able to work for over a year. The worst problem is that I haven't been paid for 9 months due to being turned down for SSI due to being young. I just don't want anyone else getting screwed by this contractor again.
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