ancientoaks
Junior Member
We live in Tn and contracted with a local, well known builder last May to bulld our house.. We parted ways Aug 8 of the same year due to problems with him, his subs, etc.
We paid him 10% of the money spent to that point. He refused to give us any of the bills he paid on our behalf, said they 'were his'..We took over and finished the house by Christmas.
There are several major problems (main girder is misplaced and not under load bearing walls, porches slope IN towards house, carport concrete is cracking, brick porch columns way out of plumb, upstairs walls out of plumb so storage doors don't open fully, etc etc)
He came out, finally, July 25, and pretty much 'excused' all but the girder issue..said 'he'd be back in two weeks (about the time that would be 12 mo from when we parted ways). I am sure he is just stalling, husband wants to 'give him the benefit of the doubt'..I say we need to do somthing now....what is the limitation on this and when does it start? when we discovered the problems? ( some only 1 month ago) or from when he was let go?
THANKS!
We paid him 10% of the money spent to that point. He refused to give us any of the bills he paid on our behalf, said they 'were his'..We took over and finished the house by Christmas.
There are several major problems (main girder is misplaced and not under load bearing walls, porches slope IN towards house, carport concrete is cracking, brick porch columns way out of plumb, upstairs walls out of plumb so storage doors don't open fully, etc etc)
He came out, finally, July 25, and pretty much 'excused' all but the girder issue..said 'he'd be back in two weeks (about the time that would be 12 mo from when we parted ways). I am sure he is just stalling, husband wants to 'give him the benefit of the doubt'..I say we need to do somthing now....what is the limitation on this and when does it start? when we discovered the problems? ( some only 1 month ago) or from when he was let go?
THANKS!