The contractor just stopped showing up and when I called him he made up excuses about his son being injured and his sister being ill. He hadn't paid the electrician for the work done so far so I paid the electrician and managed to get him to come back and finish the work. Then I had to pay the flooring company and collect the flooring and get the fireplace guy to come back and finish installing the fire place. The fire place guy said he always got paid upfront by this contractor so that wasn't a problem. It ended up that the contractor owed me $2000-3000 given that I hadn't paid him everything when he disappaered. I figured I'd never get any money out of him so I made a deal for his carpenter to work for me at $300 a day and that worked for a while but then the contractor said he was charging me $73/hour for his carpenter ($600 a day !) so I called a halt to it all. I think I got out of it ok but I would never let this contractor do anything for me or anyone I know again.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $50,000.00