BC woman says she lost over $117K in mobile home renovation: "This was my dream"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- A warning about hiring a renovation contractor - make sure you do your homework. A B.C. woman says she lost tens of thousands of dollars in a home renovation-turned-disaster.
Gillian Harris says it was a dream to own her own place. She hired a contractor through word of mouth to do a full renovation on her mobile home. Instead, she says she's been left with major deficiencies with no end in sight.
Consumer Matters reporter Anne Drewa has more.
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Indian contractor, wasnt that a clue? and who gives 100% deposit on reno?
could be someone just framing the indians
@@wintertarzanjagrup2527 like who..another indian?
@@TheHolesmasher scapegoat
A consumer, that's who. Mentally, a consumer.
Name of business: Pretentious
Name of business owner: Rippie
Indian contractors sense of humor 100% 😂😂😂
I thought that was a joke
loooooool
takes pride in his work and honesty HAHAHA, don't need to outline it if you are in fact
I heard grippy lol
Never trust them! Liars and thiefs.
Never prepay contractors. Never.
It’s customary and normal practice to pay the contractor a percentage of the total cost just to get started, maybe 20 or 25%
what type of name is "Pretentious Homes & Designs." You would never do business with a company name like that
the owners name is "suckdeep gill" Automatically would cancel after I heard that name
100% p@jeet scammer home builder. He will get PR as a construction worker now
@@alexg9727 Exactly, not exactly known for their quality work, work ethic, honesty or integrity.
SuckItDeep Grill
You have to be careful with these Indian contractors guys.
That's ok, they're making a name for themselves. Dirty scammers. Meanwhile his wife is calling from a scam centre. Lovely people.
@@liftedgifted6010 I laughed reading this coz it is so FREAKING TRUE
Scammers. All of them.
Tons of hacks out there.
And despicable, no morals.
Trudeau is to blame
This is what happens when we import low quality low trust people.
You import cheap labour, you get cheap results.
You mean those from Europe?
@@dunweyweydum No. INDIA. To be clear. Stop.
it's not that it's arguably Kijiji or craigslist contractors but her biggest mistake is buying a mobile home
never pay in full, installments is a must.
Shocking that it is a Indian Contractor🙄 . Worksafe just shut down one of their sites here in Chilliwack. Their entire house is leaning and off square. I am waiting for the city to order it demolished
I got a brown build across from my place and it is literally leaning to the left so had you can see it with the naked eye. Don't even need a level on a wall to check for plumb.
This year is going to be worse than the last, no doubt about it. Due to poor investment decisions that I would not have made if I hadn't been so concerned about my portfolio, I lost a significant amount of money last year. I continued to invest, but I was undecided about whether to begin making house payments. I eventually sold my jobs, and the house required more work than I had anticipated. I'm not sure how much longer I can continue in this manner.
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Diversity at its finest...
It is the one type 😂Trudup’s favourite type
Europeans are a diverse lot 😅😅
' Goes by the name of Rippee'. RED FLAG!
lol no brainer
Rippy off.
Hire someone to do some minor things for $1500, no contract for cash ?
I can see it...
Getting into a $100k job without a formal contract and documentation ?
I don't want to "victim blame".. but cmon lady.
She could have bought a new mobile home for less than 117k.
@@parkerbohnn yes, but with $800+/month pad rent PLUS property taxes
Trained.....consumer. But I go to 7/11 and the coffee is all the same, all the time.
Hired a _______, got ripped off.
Nothing to see here.🙄
I've worked for builders in BC, I wouldn't let them anywhere near my house.
This story although sad, does not sit well with me. I have been renovating houses for 30 year+ I would never invest $117,000 in a mobile home ( trailer). Where does a person who lives in a trailer get $117,000 for Reno’s. ???
Saving on rent, presumably.
Very good point, you wouldn’t put that much money into a project that would not have a return!
Yeah I definitely wondered that too.
Ok Jill the name of the company and the name of the owner should have been your first red flag...
This is terrible!!! I'm sorry to hear about your story.
NO Maintenance = NO Contracts = Bad Guy 90%
Very sad....take him to court!
Yup!!! But she can’t locate him
@@angelanderson9515 He is in India now. Population 1.417 billion. Shouldn't be too hard to find. Clean shaven or beard?
Av 117k down payment on the averaged priced $450,000 home in Abbotsford would have made a lot more sense. A mobile home has no resale value.
If you have no income its extremely difficult if not impossible to get a mortgage in BC
@@TheHolesmasher Senior I know had SI pension and CASH for her sold home, but could only get the amount for the pension. Star top credit rating. yes, impossible.
Caveat Emptor! You must have a written contract. Unsure about contract content? Ask a Lawyer. Step 2 if giving any funds for a project, require they provide you a Surety Bond and or Performance Bond. Not sure? Ask a Lawyer and/or Hire an independent Project Manager. If you have no Surety Bond Insurance to offset funds you give a Contractor, stop do not start. Simple.
This is what Canadians died at Vimy Ridge for??
Mobile homes in Edmonton sell for 50 thousand dollars or less. How could one possibly spend 117K to renovate a mobile home that sells for les than that brand new?
This isn't Deadmonton. This is BC.
I paid mine 4K a week and they had to ask where and what to buy with receipts
This woman is a victim whether she signed a formal contract or not. She was looking for a "fresh start" and is a recovering cancer patient, and someone cunning enough convinced her to trust them. Disgusting. She may not be business savvy, or it may be someone who convinced her well they could be trusted - in happens ALL the time in business, and people should not be so quick to judge her.
I got a senior 38,000 in back pension and she immediately "loaned" it to two guys she went to school with, with NO abilty to repay. What chokes ME is she didn't CALL me, then complaines to ME. She never had money. I should have just invested it and gave her the interest (which she would have gone for, but the family badmouth would have been MY cost). I don't talk to her any more. You can't fix stupid and you don't have the TIME to be nice any more.
@@DwightStJohn-w1l Doesn't apply to everyone and victims deserve compassion. Manipulation can happen to anyone, don't assume it will never happen to you no matter how smart you think you are.
She should have done her homework but she didn't. I would never spend thousands and trust the renovation of my home to a company only in business for less than 4 years, on "word of mouth." That is ludicrous. My guess is this dude gave her the lowest quote so she ran with it. She didn't do her due diligence and sadly now she's SOL.
It’s tempting to renovate a mobile home but it rarely is worth the cost.
Hey Trudeau give Mr. Gill a minute of silence in the parliament when the MP’s are back in Ottawa
the contract is useless if both parties are not honest and accountable
You know what ?
The courts wont do anything for her.
Could you repeat that name slowly.
Did you get references and see some of their work?
doesnt matter if they have a chnce they take it, mass immigration values failing
Exactly why I never hire any trades simply I can do it all far better.
I've owned a couple of used RVs and I'm aghast at what the former owners have done to them.
My fear is that they have gone into business and claimed that they know RVs
Don't ever let an unknown contractor or contractor you never worked with before gut your entire home. Let them do a small room like a bathroom first to see their work before you proceed further. Never give them all the money up front. A reputable contractor will take payments in installments as work is completed.
And always put it into a written contract. The simple fact that it was not in some type of formal written contract suggests that this lady was trying to cut corners and pay cash under the table type of deal (maybe not but it happens when there are no formal contracts)
never call someone by there word always call real companies that been around the block 50 yrs , other wise you will be easy target
Man I hate seeing people getting ripped off like that. Way too many scammers out there, especially in "contracting". I wish I even knew how to find a reliable contractor.
@@colinsellers1143 Yeah I don't think it's that easy, although I would never do any kind of business with "Rippee" personally. Seen lots of reports of "white" contractors doing just as bad a job.
Rippy stands for I'll rip you off.
If you look up the price for a Mobile home she could of bought a new one unfortunately she is not a good biz minded women.
So? That means that goofballs should be able to screw her out of money? Let's not lose focus here, the villains in this story are the so-called 'macho' 'trades guys' who screwed this woman out of her money. That simple.
@@dustinwatkins7843 nobody said that we should do that
@@dustinwatkins7843 The only reason anyone lost to a flim flam man was due to their lack of knowledge & awareness of bad apples preying on them. If you dont know how to out smart a con job you going to learn a hard lesson.
Sounds rippy is here
What is "The breaker box was mounted upside down?". Those Siemens panels are designed to be mounted in any configuration on the wall. Doesnt matter if you clock it 90*, 180* or 270*. There is no 'upside down'. Just the stickers on the panel cover are wrong side up maybe, but they can be easily removed and replaced, or the panel cover can be flipped 180 degrees. As the installing electrician, you literally clock the panel to the best fitment/install scenario for the wiring. Mounting it in front of a water heater is a different story.. but who knows what happened there. What came first, the electrician or the plumber? Not defending this shady builder by any means, but there are a number of 'faults' they showed/covered in this story, that are either very simple fixes, or are blown way out of proportion to start. A hole in the drywall for a plumbing shutoff valve is a much different level of concern, than say structural framing issues or water ingress/mold would be.
I believe from how it was explained there was no electrician or plumber...only Suckdeep
Anne, you're literally a ray of sunshine.
Your employers don't deserve you.
Thanks for always having your moral compass pointed in the right direction.
This kind of scam is as old as - well...okay...from my experience about 40 years. Way back then people used to talk about the new townhouses being built, the inspectors coming in, approving everything...and then, the real work would begin. They would take the insulation out of the walls, to be used in the next development and the entire scam would be perpetuated over and over and over again.
$117,000 stolen for trailer renovations? How much is a brand new trailer?
New "modulars" property done are now in BC between 200 and 300 GRAND, but those are NEW with a new home Warranty.
Is anybody surprised?
The B.C. Government needs to concentrate on consumer protection laws instead of aiding drug addicts !!!!
Gill will get a job with Libs…
Perfect candidate
My mother said stupid is stupid does sorry buy not sorry wake up lady neverrrrrr pay anyyyyyone before you check work
A "formal contract" isn't worth the paper it's written on. Given how the job was managed, a piece of paper would not ensure better workmanship. The real problem was trusting those clowns in the first place. The construction industry is a shady business where all trades have to be baby-sat to get things done. It's a sad reality in this industry. I have been in construction 25 years and I see this every day.
So the contractor had to pull an electrical permit for panel install.
Technical BC inspects panels from their office these days I guess
The disaster is spending over $100K on a mobile home. Hardly living the dream if basically a trailer is your greatest goal in life.
The name says it all, you’d be crazy to expect they do the job correctly, it’s typical of them
Well, I would say that the B.C. Government is so far behind licensing laws that they are to blame !
Its like opening a can of worms to fixer upper a mobile home
Done many, and yes they can be a can of worms. That was a terrible job, at twice the price.
Sending luv ❤❤❤ Get those scammers !Hope you catch them!
117k in renos on a 70k trailer ??? poor decision !!
much better and cheaper to order a new mobile home from China. The rest of the installations are straight forward.
For that price she could have bought a new one
Jagpreet strike again
Nothing a few turns of the screwdriver can't fix.
Gee… I wonder which country he fled back to 😂😂😂
There should be new laws put in for people doing this too people .....❤❤❤❤❤
who spends that on a getto trailer lol
who blames the victim?
If you look up the price for a Mobile home she could of bought a new one unfortunately she is not a good biz minded women.
dumb dumb could have got a new trailer for that price!
I don't give the guy a pass for Scamming that lady, BUT I also don't give a woman who is clearly OLD enough to know better a pass for being stupid with her money either. Stupidity is SUPPOSED to hurt, looks like it finally caught up to her BIG TIME.
siding was spelled with a "c"
Cry me a river... law doesn't protect idiots 😂😂😂
Same as truck drivers..
At the docks…
They are buying up businesses all over BC
Electricians
Framers…
Budu budu
How can they do that too people.. this is horrible the people doing this should be stopped an jailed ... I feel very badly for this women an her loss. ....🎉🎉❤❤
How about when you deal with a Canadian Old Stock Contractor who fills you with confidence but then he is not the one who does the actual work. He sends in God only knows what, off the boat, to do the work. The Homeowner can't win nowadays.
Evergreen Construction in New Brunswick must be related to these folks from Pretentious Homes & Designs.
Rippee offee unfortunately feel awful for this poor lady
She must own the lot. its worth more than the home. if this location is south west Abbotsford it would be worth a fair amount
you can't own the land with the mobile home aka TRAILER
@@derick3482 yes you can
Why is this not a serious crime??????
why does the news reporter look like quadmire and lois had a baby irl
She thought im not a racist I will hire this guy lol.
The deficiencies are minimal
Seems that there are alot of dake companies in Ontario and western provinces
Notice a trend people. Foreign contracting
The free market working as designed
First flag Sukh.
So sad
Giving some great home builders a bad name
Poor woman
I think you could buy a new one for that much
Only go through places like home depo or lowes or rona
Me too
You can buy a new mobile for hole for that amount of money.
I hope some people come together to help her.
oh my God hahaha.. the business name and the owner's name...should have been her first clues, the guy is a scammer and a low skilled person.
Yea real name Rip Off
tofu and hummus industries
how do you like those apple brown betty
in a pan
Hahahaha!!! New Canada.
Indian
🤦
Goes by the name of Rip-off. Yep.
East Indians that was your mistake
No Kammie.
TRUMP AND VANCE 2024
Abbotsford noo bhi pind banaye.
Balay balay chakde pathey
Capitalism, now people know not to hire those contractors