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Originally Posted by RosemarySoso
A good friend is going thru hell thanks to KITCHEN AND BATH STUDIOS OF OCALA. Her job was supposed to be done but she sits with a shower that was gutted and that’s it. People are supposed to show up— they don’t. No calls! She has paid them over $6,000. They won’t continue until she forks over the balance. In my opinion, they are exploiting a single woman. Not nice.
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Hopefully she was smart enough to have signed a contract that did not allow them to put a lien on her home. Then hopefully she was smart enough to have put the $6K on her credit card so she can contact them to dispute and recover the money.
If not, I guess the best you can do is blast everything you can online to warn others to be more careful. Everything we have done here in the way of contract work at the house we have given either a nominal deposit on OR required them to take credit card to protect ourselves. I am more than willing to pay by check or even cash once the work is completed to our satisfaction, and let the contractor choose if want the job or not. So far, I have only had one person who required full payment up front, and it is a local, big, established business many years old with an actual storefront. I went ahead because I felt the risk of prepayment minimal ($500 total), and paid by check.