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I am in the midst of a court battle with a handy-man who decided to pass himself off as a General Contractor and construction worker.   He hired subs who never pulled permits, and ended up in a physical confrontation with one.   The police were called to my home on two occasions.   He was supposed to put two porches onto my home, and my structural engineer and also my inspector state that the back porch needs to come off and be done over.   Walls are not aligned, the floor is at the wrong height, the posts are at and over the edge of the cement piers, and the studs are different heights around the room.  The workmanship is shoddy in every way.
I can see that his attorney is doing everything possible to waste my money to fight this.

I have questions about this person’s insurance policy, and how to find success in the court system.  Our local licensing department is corrupt, and they only work to cover their own mistakes in passing work that does not meet code.
I do not trust my attorney to be on top of things.  I live in Minnesota, and wonder if you can advise where else I can turn for support and ideas to be able to win my case!   I feel that there is much I could learn from others who have been in this awful predicament.   I fired my contractor, and he put a lien against my home.

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Jody,

Thank you for taking time to think about my problem.   I should have been more clear to tell you that the guy I hired WAS actually licensed, but clearly was ONLY a handyman, and had gotten in way over his head to take on my porch projects.   I am pursuing this in a lawsuit, but now have no faith in finding real justice via the court system.   I have already spent over 20K on experts, attorneys, etc.!   The guy was insured, and my attorneys both acted like there would be some real money there.   Neither would ask for the policy, and I went through the trouble of getting it from the state myself.   I then presented it to my attorney, and asked him to decifer what it meant, which he either could not or would not do!   He insisted I had to show up for a 2nd mediation, even though the other side scammed, and spent my money for a 1st mediation, only to show up and say it was impossible  for them to be prepared to mediate as they hadn’t received a report from their expert.   I had tried over and over to tell my attorney that we should not be going to a mediation until WE saw a report from their inspector, or were told that there would be no report.   After the horrible letdown at the mediation, not to mention mistakes by my attorney, I left that attorney, and hired another!   So, upon arrival at mediation number two, my  second attorney told me that the insurance company would only cover negligence, and NOT shoddy work.   He withheld that information, and also the offer from the insurance company until I arrived at the mediation!  I would never have gone to a second mediation if he had disclosed the information prior.

I feel like I need to bond with people who have been through this type of lawsuit, and I greatly appreciate all of your ideas.

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