T.M.E. General Contracting

This entire "company" is a SCAM! William Rogers and his wife are con-artists masquerading as a General Contractor. They start work with no intention on ever completing and with the sole purpose of bilking anyone out of every possible penny. Below is the result of more than 80K in payments! If there's anyway to give less than a star I would. If you meet either please save yourself and immediately walk away. After hindsighting, I've yet to find an actual completed job they've done.

Review: January **, 2015

Dear Revdex.com,

We are writing to report what we believe to be the unprofessional and dishonest business practices

of electrician, [redacted], sole proprietor of T. M. E. General Contracting LLC, located at [redacted], and to ask for your assistance in getting $1,525

back of the money we paid him in advance for the contracted work he failed to complete.

My partner and I bought a small "fixer upper" house - as a second home - in [redacted] in

May 2014. We hired a local general contractor on the recommendation of our realtor to shore up the

house, which included all new plumbing and electric work. Our contractor brought [redacted] in as

his electrician to re-wire the entire house and bring it up to code.

[redacted] and our contractor had a falling out in July during the renovation. [redacted] said the

G.C. refused to pay him and thus, he would not finish our electrical work, would file a mechanic's lien

against our home and would prevent us from getting our C of O until he got paid. We convinced the

G.C. to pay [redacted] what he was owed and then we let our G.C. go, whom we had other issues

with.

In August, [redacted] told us it would only take him two days to finish the remaining electric work on

our house and he eventually gave us an invoice for $4,885 to do that work. He then told us he

needed to be paid in advance or he would not complete the work. He agreed to finish the work on the

weekend of 11/**/14 on condition that we leave him a check for payment in full. He called us,

ostensibly (as he claimed) from our [redacted] house, and represented to us that "he and his guys"

were in the house finishing the work right then and there and asked us where the check was. We told

him and the check cleared our account on the the following Monday. When we visited the house the

following Thursday we realized that no additional work had been done, nor was there was evidence

he was even present at the house that week, other than to pick up the check.

We then began attempting to contact him through email, phone, and text on a daily basis, but

received no response for more than 10 days. At that point we had reason to believe that he never

intended to finish the work and had simply walked away.

In a final attempt to contact him we emailed him from an email address which we had not previously

used to communicate with him, knowing that he would not recognize that email address as ours.

Within hours the email was opened (we documented that using legal email tracking software). It

simply states the facts up to that point as we understood them, asked him to correct any factual

errors, and stated that, given the facts as we understood them, we would prefer to move forward with

another electrician and receive a refund for the incomplete work —unless we could come to a mutual

agreement regarding a reasonable time frame in which all work would be completed immediately. His

response (which we

have on record in email form) was that he wanted nothing more to do with us and never intended to

set foot on our property again.

Although our email detailed that $2,400 - $2,700 worth of work, according to [redacted]'s own

invoice, had yet to be completed, he offered to reimburse us $650 "max". To this date we have

received no reimbursement in any amount from him, and we have obtained several estimates for

completion of work we paid him for, ranging from about $1,500 to $3,000. We chose the electrician

who gave us the absolute lowest price to complete the work, accepting a few "short cuts" and

eventually paid the new electrician $1,495 on December [redacted] for most of the work [redacted]

had invoiced us and was paid for. We emailed [redacted] requesting that he reimburse us for the

$1,495 and his response was "it is your problem you were overcharged" for the remaining work. By

way of text message [redacted] also made a vague threat to "tread very carefully" regarding our

attempt to be reimbursed.

In summary, [redacted] had promised us almost on a weekly basis for over 4 months that he

would come and complete the work on our house; then, he might show up once in a blue moon for 5

minutes and then leave again ifwe were there, saying "he forgot a tool" or he "didn't feel well "or he

"had an emergency situation he had to attend to at the last minute" and so on and so forth. Usually

he just didn't show up at all and just left us hanging. When we finally had had enough and gave him

one last chance --even after we had paid him in full for the work he promised to finish for us - he

chose to walk away, refusing to stand behind his work and in a juvenile fashion accused us of being

unreasonable "complainers" and to stop "harassing him".

Additionally, we had an antique chandelier we asked him to install as part of this final work. He told

us he needed to re-wire the fixture as the original wiring was too old and unsafe. He said he could

do that work for us at home so he took the fixture with him. After repeated requests for him to return

the chandelier, offers to come pick it up ourselves, arranging for him to drop it off at another public

location that was more convenient for him and when he said he could drop it off (but didn't show up),

and finally getting his promise to mail it back to us at our own cost, we still do not have it and now

believe he never had any intention of returning our property to us.

We finally had to admit to ourselves that [redacted] had indeed taken us for a ride, and had probably

always intended to keep our money and our property. We have complete documentation - cancelled

checks, invoices, photos and email conversations - of every claim made in this letter and are willing

to supply that documentation upon request.

We think that the general public should be warned about what we believe to be unusually

unprofessional and unacceptable business practices, which to us feels like the scamming of senior

adults like ourselves (We are in our 60s. [redacted] is 31.)

I ([redacted]) run a very well-respected, 35 year old, not-for-profit community arts center in Brooklyn and

[redacted] is a senior research scientist at [redacted] in Philadelphia. We also are both teachers

and have taught both kids and college students for many decades. Neither of us are whiners and

most often, extend the benefit of the doubt to most people. In this case, we also tried to extend the

same courtesy to [redacted], which, sadly, he took advantage of for his own gain.

We have been advised by an attorney and the police that we now have to take [redacted] to small

claims court in order to try and get our $1,525 back and to be reimbursed for the antique lighting

fixture he has failed to return. We hope that the Revdex.com can contact [redacted] and encourage him to

do the right thing before we have to take him to court.

At the very least, we hope the Revdex.com by virtue of this complaint, will provide the vehicle to warn other

potential customers of what we regard as seedy and unethical business practices and steer them

away from this electrician and his business. Please note that [redacted] positions and advertises

himself as a General Contractor; our experience with him is only as licensed electrician, and leave it

to other potential homeowners to draw their own conclusions regarding the wisdom of choosing [redacted] as a General Contractor as well as an electrician.

We would regard this issue resolved if [redacted], before our court appearance, reimbursed us for

our chandelier and the expense of completing the work using another electrician, and acknowledged

the validity of our grievances. We remain open to any challenges to the facts presented in this

complaint; however, we strongly do not believe there are any, and thus stand behind them as

currently stated here.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter and we look forward to hearing from you at your earliest

convenience,

[redacted]Desired Settlement: Reimbursement