My husband and I own approx. 2 acres, 3 bedroom/2bath home in Kresgeville, PA.
In September my husband and I hired Chet Botch, owner of Strauss Homes, to build an attached 2-car garage with a room above it and to remodel our existing home. We paid him in full for the construction of the garage plus the room above it.By December the frame of the garage and the upstairs room was built. Mr. Botch said that he had to wait until April to pour the cement on the garage floor due to the cold weather. It is now July and there is no cement on the garage floor.
On December 7, we had a flood in the existing house. We again hired Strauss Homes to remodel most of the house due to water damage. They were paid by our insurance company, State Farm, in full for the work on the interior.
Several months later, the interior of the house was not completed. The pipes were still not properly protected from the cold resulting in another flood. Again, State Farm paid in full for additional interior work due to the damage caused by the second flood. Such work was never completed.
In mid Mr. Botch brought a catapillar with a bucket and bulldozer attached to it in order to grade the land going to the garage. The land was never graded.
In February Mr. Botch brought the catapillar again to my property. This time he dug a big whole on our backyard and burned the garbage he had created in other jobs. He left a big whole uncovered plus broke the pipe going to the sewer. He told us that he had repaired the pipe and covered it. To date, said pipe remains broken and exposed. He never covered it with the ground.
Strauss Homes has defrauded us of over $100,000. My house is inhabitable. There isn't a single room completed. The siding on the garage is still not fully completed and the plywood has been damaged due to exposure to winter and summer (2 years). We paid twice for the completion of the room above the garage. After the sheetrock was installed, they removed it because the wiring was faulty. Now the room is bare and the sheetrock damaged on the floor. The few walls that were finished have been damaged by them.
In addition, we purchased materials for the home and he returned them to the store and received store credit which he never returned to us.
This has been a strain on my health and has caused irreparable damage to my family. Please help!!!
P.S. Of course, I have receipts to prove that I paid.
Thank you so much. I would apprecite any help you can provide. My husband and I are not young and this is our only home - now our destroyed home.
Sincerely,
Maritza
Maritza
Kresgeville, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
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