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Address: 4 Cedar Glen Road, Dunsford, Ontario, Canada, K0M 1L0
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I've since spoken to many others who have experienced very similar things! This company is a total sham!
I hired this contractor to complete a renovation and am now having to have a different contractor come in and fix the work. I have a large scratch on my floor from my couch chaise being dragged, live electrical wire was left hanging, live electrical wire was touching metal, amongst many other things that our new contractor has pointed out.
Three months after signing our contract, our job still was not started nor building permit and site plan submitted to the township on our behalf.
May 6/19: Emailed New Beginnings Contracting Services for a quote on raising our cottage at ***
May 11/19: Met *** and her boyfriend/husband *** at our cottage in *** so that they could see the scope of work to be done. *** said that they were quoting other cottages to be raised in our subdivision as well and that once started, each cottage lift should take approximately 2 weeks.
May 23/19: Received quote with anticipated start date of 4-6 weeks from contract acceptance and deposit received. Emailed *** to set up a date to meet Saturday, May 25 to sign final contract.
May 25/19: Signed contract and gave *** and *** the keys to our cottage. We were given a start date of June 24, 2019, as they were scheduled to start ***'s cottage first on June 10/19 and told us each job would take 2 weeks to complete. We were told New Beginnings would provide the permit documentation and act on our behalf and submit the paperwork to ***.
June 1/19: *** and *** picked up the deposit cheque at our cottage ($13,736.91). Text received from *** stating that she received it.
June 21/19: Received an email from *** stating that they would like to meet with us on June 22 at our cottage to discuss a change in the schedule, as they were running behind on ***'s cottage lift.
June 22/19: Met with *** and *** at our cottage and we were told that ***'s cottage was taking longer than anticipated and that they wanted to change our start date to July 22/19, as they were going to finish ***'s cottage raise and then go on to the next neighbour's job (***) so that they would not interfere with our holidays that we had booked for the week of July 15/19. We agreed to a new start date of July 22/19.
July 7/19: Found that ***'s cottage was still up on the support beams, not down on its piers. It had been up in the air since the middle of June. Emailed *** to ask if there was a problem at ***'s cottage. She replied that there were some water issues and that they had to get an engineer in and that there was further delay. Did not hear anything further from *** other than seeing her briefly at ***'s near the end of July where she said they were still doing ***'s cottage before ours and gave us no indication of when.
August 3/19: *** spoke with *** at ***'s cottage, which was now excavated underneath and raised in the air, on Saturday, August 3, to discuss a time line, as we had another week of holidays booked for August 19, 2019, and we indicated we were willing to cancel them if they were ready to do our cottage. *** indicated that it was fine to still continue with our holidays, as they would not be done with ***'s cottage and that our new start date was now August 26, 2019. I texted *** to reiterate that we were willing to cancel our holidays if they were ready to lift our cottage and received no reply.
August 17/19: On arriving at our cottage for our week of holidays, we discovered that ***'s cottage was still up in the air, exactly the same as it had been 2 weeks before with no progress at all. Texted *** to find out what was going on with ***'s as clearly they would not be ready to start our cottage on August 26/19. She indicated that they were waiting for the building inspector to come back from holidays. She indicated that *** no longer worked for New Beginnings Contracting Services and would not be working on our project. We phoned her and left a message as we wanted to discuss. She phoned back and indicated that she had other people to do the work and that she would be starting it on August 26/19 as promised.
August 19/19: We visited the *** Planning Department. Discovered no site plan or building permit had been submitted for our project, nor was there an inspector on holidays.
Be advised that it is the position of NBCS that (1) it had a valid and enforceable contract with Mr. and Mrs.; (2) NBCS was not in breach of the contract and (3) the ***s forfeited their deposit by repudiating the contract days before construction was set to begin.
The deposit represents the cost of the materials required for the job. An itemized list of material is enclosed. NBCS purchased the materials in bulk along with material for 2 other similar jobs and had everything delivered to a nearby job site in ***. When the ***s stated that they wished to cancel the job, Ms. explained that the materials could not be returned to the supplier and she offered to transfer the materials to their new contractor or to deliver them to their property. The ***s instructed her not to deliver the materials to their property. Consequently, Ms. arranged to have all the ***s’material removed from *** and transported to ***. The concrete purchased for the job has sinceexpired and it has been disposed of.
Be advised that if your clients sue for the return of their deposit, NBCS will counterclaim for the cost of moving and storing the materials ordered for their job. At present, we estimate that cost to be approximately $5,000.
NBCS will agree to release the material currently in storage at *** to the ***s, or their designate, provided that the ***s execute a release in favour of NBCS and arrange to pick up the material up from *** at their own expense.
Govern yourself accordingly.
Timeline
?Sept 11 – *** agree to disagree let the court decide
?Sept 11 – *** still willing to proceed, deposit spent on materials, paperwork was submitted
?Sept 11 – *** told job would be done within 6 weeks of signing contract, say was lied to about delays being attributable to town and paperwork not submitted,
?Sept 11 – *** still willing to proceed, need equip elsewhere in October
?Sept 11 – *** will not reconsider, dispute cost of materials, say they called the supplier
?Sept 10 – *** checking if they want to reconsider before moving the material and equipment
?Aug 19 – *** do not deliver material to the site
?Aug 19 – *** offered to deliver the materials to the site
?Aug 19 – *** no contract with ***
?Aug 19 – *** disappointed but will forward material to *** who says he is doing the job, he can start as scheduled for aug 26
?Aug 19 – *** cancelling job, planning dept says no plans submitted or permit requested
?Aug 19 – , via text, yes site plan submitted, supposed to pick up building permit today
?Aug 19 – , via text, has the site plan been submitted and do you have a building permit to start work aug 26
?Aug 3 – , via text, saying john was just talking to ***and he said they would start work on the property by aug26, she says she has holidays starting aug 17 but would cancel if they were ready to start work by then
?July 7 – *** expect date of July 22 to change but can discuss when it gets closer
?July 7 – ***’s cottage will be completed that week, change in plan based on advice of engineer
?July 7 – *** back from trip, concerned based on delay with ***’s cottage
?June 1 – , via text, picked up the cheque from her parents
?June 21 – *** need to discuss schedule change
?June 21 – *** happy as long as co can work around their holidays
?May 23 – *** thanks for quote want to meet to finalize deal, would like job done before their holidays which start july15
?May 22 – *** do not require variance, cannot use existing piers, starting ***’s cottage June 10, estimate 2 weeks per cottage
?May 21 – *** would like to have job lined up after ***’s cottage
?May 21 – *** with building inspector Thursday to discuss your property and a few others
?May 21 – *** asking if they can reuse some of the existing piers, had another company quote and they said a variance was required
?May 6 – *** asking for a quote and date to meet
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Complaint: ***
I am rejecting this response and have forwarded it to our legal counsel. Please forward any future correspondence to ***. ***
Sincerely
Thanks for sharing your experience. It seems this company likes to rip many people off for deposits and their work is sub par at best.