All Forum Posts by: Remi Nguyen

@Elise Wharton, it's Presto Construction LLC. At the time I signed the contract, their address is in Reisterstown, MD 21136. I hope you'll never fall into this trap. But if you ever do, I can share some lessons I learned the hard way :) Best of luck!

Oh, this is new to me. Thank you so much for the suggestion Danny. Highly appreciate that. 
Just to be sure, you mean this one, and that would fall into "General Complaint" category? https://www.marylandattorneyge...

I see that they have "New Home Complaint and Guaranty Fund Claim Submission Form" but not for home improvement. 

Thanks for the note, @Chris Seveney. I dug into the MD Home Improvement Commission Regulations and found this. I'll talk to an attorney more about this, but just wonder to what extent homeowner are responsible for this. 

09.08.01.08 Duty of Prime Contractor on Home Improvement Contract.

"In the performance of any Home Improvement Contract it shall be the non-delegable duty and obligation of the prime contractor to secure, or see to the securing of, every permit, license, or special exception necessary to the proper completion of the contract according to applicable state or local building laws."

Hello BP family, 
I signed a contract with a construction company to do egress windows. The contractor concurrently started the job applied for a building permit a couple days later. They finished about 80% of the job and left, never followed up with the permit application. 60 days after the date of permit application, I visited the county Permitting office and found out there's tasks pending on applicant, i.e the contractor.
So I reminded the contractor they need to fulfill the tasks. They submitted some docs, but not others.

Yesterday, the permit coordinator emailed me that there's one more document needed. The contractor bursted out with lots if insulting language toward me and finally texted "done", "bye", "bring me to court if you want", "you have no legs on this", plus all other insulting language that you don't need to hear. 

Now I'm going to get other contractors to bid on the left over and finish it. Meanwhile I'm looking at these options to deal with the flaw contractor:
1. Filing a complaint to State Home Improvement Commission for contractor's unfinished job. If approved, I can then file a claim to get some compensation from the state Guarantee Fund to get back the cost I paid new contractor to finish the job.
2. Go to Small Claim Court to hopefully get a judgment against the previous contractor up to $5000 (Better than nothing, if I ever get it)

What would you do in my situation? Do you see any other options?
Any insight, experience or advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

Thanks for doing this. So excited to join you. 

@Joe Norman This is helpful. Thank you so much. 

 Thank you @Russel Brazil

Thank you again, @Justin Lanciault.

Thank you @Justin Lanciault. Yes I have an agent to call "buyer agent", but not yet officially, i.e have not signed the "exclusive right to represent" agreement nor the consent of dual agency. I wanted to stop and ask first :) 

You're right. Apparently, there are 3 licensed individuals involved here. I read around in this forum and see that people are mainly concerned about price. I was wondering if either agent has enough incentive to withhold/share information of the buyer/seller just to speed up the transaction but may potentially go against the buyer's interest. 

Your answer did help. So thank you :)

I requested to tour a house with my buyer agent and liked it (i.e. the event of choosing the house was not initiated by the agent). After my agent discussed it with the listing agent, we decided to make an official offer at a number I feel comfortable with. Turns out they are in the same broker firm (I realize it when signing the offer letter). So I stopped and asked my agent about any potential conflict of interest, they said they never met the listing agent - the firm is big they each of them operate very independently without seeing each other.

The seller already signed consent of dual agency months ago when they listed the house. 

If I already felt that the price was reasonable - not worrying the agent would convince me to go with a higher than the market price, what else should I watch out for if I wanted to proceed with a dual agency? 

Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you!