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It’s not my fault. I got 42 bids on my rehab job; all came in at about $75,000 except for one. That one bid was for $27,900! Noticing that the contractor who submitted that bid was drunk, smoking crack, unkempt, illiterate, inarticulate, and was driving a rusted 1978 ford station wagon with bald tires, I hired him immediately! I checked him out carefully; he had worked for another contractor for several hours before he was fired, so he decided to go into business for himself.
Everything seemed fine, but before you could say “I am a greedy ba$tard” my job turned into a nightmare. The building inspector says that all of the work has to be redone because it doesn’t meet the code (What is a code?). My contractor is nowhere to be found, and either is the $22,000 cash down payment that I gave him. I called some of the other contractors who bid on the job, but they were rude to me (Maybe because I told them that they were crooks when I saw their outrageous prices).
Won’t someone offer me a little sympathy? Please help me, I have been treated so unfairly. If I sue and win, do I get to keep the station wagon if I am willing to take over the payments?
Signed,
Mistreated and Abused
Everything seemed fine, but before you could say “I am a greedy ba$tard” my job turned into a nightmare. The building inspector says that all of the work has to be redone because it doesn’t meet the code (What is a code?). My contractor is nowhere to be found, and either is the $22,000 cash down payment that I gave him. I called some of the other contractors who bid on the job, but they were rude to me (Maybe because I told them that they were crooks when I saw their outrageous prices).
Won’t someone offer me a little sympathy? Please help me, I have been treated so unfairly. If I sue and win, do I get to keep the station wagon if I am willing to take over the payments?
Signed,
Mistreated and Abused
