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| Thu, 07-19-2007 - 4:20pm |
I've made a brief mention that we have alot of stress in our lives right now. We are suing and also being sued by a contractor we hired 2 years ago to do some remodeling of our home. He did a large amount of damage to our home, so we are suing him. He is counter suing us for an obscene amount of money ($100,000) no, I did not miscount my zeros! He is smoking crack rock for sure! Anyway, tommorow is our mediation. I am just asking for all prayers, good thought, and positive karma. This has taken such a toll on us mentally, physically, financially and it's taken it's toll on our relationship. So, maybe with a little luck tommorow this will all get settled and for the first time in 2 years we might actually get our lives back! Just typing that makes me cry because I want that so bad but I can't let my hopes get too high.
So, please hold us in your thoughts tommorow!
Shannon


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OH NO...
This REALLY sucks!
I want to ask what may be a dumb question though... how come you have to pay money to make this stop? if you drop your suit against him... he has to pay to prosecute you, right? Doesn't sound like he has loads to spend on that. It would mean walking away disappointed, but you're both already THERE. Is there any way to stop this whole thing without adding insult to injury and having to freaking PAY too?
hon, I feel so awful for you both.
*group HUG*
I am so sorry Irish!!!! Ugh!...With that previous figure of $100,000 I was so, so worried!!! I thought...what is he claiming he did, add a bath and 2 bedrooms and a kitchen? From what you said, settling seems the better (yet sucky) option. If you dont pay, he'll put a lien on the home if he is claiming he was not paid for work done. And you wont have clear title to sell it. You could stay there forever...and not pay?
The thing is you could COST him way more than $5,000 just by word of mouth... You'd think he'd care about his professional reputation?!! I am so sorry!
Roxy
Edited 7/21/2007 9:15 am ET by roxy_blue
Shannon, this is really bad. It seems that he either didn't do the work specified or did shoddy work. You must have been holding back the final payment and then decided to sue him. Now, of course, he wants that money. It just kills me when you can't make people SEE what is being done to you. Now you have to pay, whatever work was done sucks, and the recourse is many more times worse than the original problem.
I am soooo sorry. It's like your hands are tied in a roomful of doors and you can't get to the knobs.
Ugh, how can you stand waiting until Monday.
(((Enveloping Hugs to you both)))
Blue
Oh this is terrible! Ugh. I would be so tempted to not budge. Unless you are about to sell the home, the mechanics lien wont hurt you until you get it sorted out. I would bring all the documentation. He touched the roof without your go ahead?! Unless he says you gave him the verbal go ahead. But he has to prove it. I would not have let him touch a thing until the bathroom got done and i found what kind of work he did. Oh what a royal MESS! Lordy! Is small claims court an option to save on legal fees? And not pay the $5,000?...juts throwing that out there...in case. You have all the details...Oh I am wishing you well!!
I am so sorry...You'd think there is a better resolution for this! Maybe there is. Hang in there Irish. This too shall pass. One day...this all will be just a bad memory.
Edited 7/21/2007 1:13 pm ET by roxy_blue
:lol We didn't let him touch the roof, we came home one day and it was gone! We woke up at 7am the next day to a crane putting pallets of shingles on our roof! The amounts of the law suits are way too much for small claims court. The lien is important though because they filed a forclosure contingency. That means that if 3 years from filing if the matter has not been settled our home can be sold to satisfy the lien. Never mind that we have considerable equity in this home that we need to try and tap right now because the repairs that our home needs still have not been done because all our $$$$$$$$$$$ is tied up in lawyers.
We don't have the $$$ to keep fighting, no matter how you slice it. So, we are going to settle to have our lives back and attempt to pick ourselves up by our boot straps. We don't know what else to do.
I am Sooooo Sorry. This sounds so yucky! I am sure it will be so hard to trust after that. I wish i could waive a majic wand...make it go away. I wonder if this guy has pulled the same stunt with others...Maybe if there is a pattern there it might help your case.
Big HUgs
Roxy
(((((((((((Shannon)))))))))))
I am so sorry you are going thru this.
Hey Caly! Thanks for the hugs and support. I think we are both slowly coming to terms with this, but neither of us is happy about it. Justice has a price, and it's the sad truth. If we had the $$ to keep fighting this, even knowing we would never get a cent from him, we would keep this going just so he didn't get anything from us. But, it boils down to being practical. We'll have our home back, our lives back........you can't put a value on that. This has changed me though, I don't like that. I always believed that 99.9% of people are good but you don't hear that from the media because this society would rather focus on negative things. My "rose colored glasses" as Shelley likes to say. I don't think I believe that anymore. I've always believed you trust people until they give you a reason not to because people really are good for the most part. I just feel very negative about people in general right now. I hate this man for so many reasons. He made my wife cry........I'll hate him until the day I die for that alone.
Anyway, this will probably be resolved tommorow and hopefully we can start moving on.
Shannon
PS I really do appreciate everyone's hugs and support and opinions. It has been a very difficult time for us to say the least.
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