This proves my point that checking court records/background checks is important
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by burned23
Hi Again Jodi
Boy I wish that I would have found this one out sooner.
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties now have their court records
online. Both Civil and Criminal.
If your jurisdiction has this, you should definitely search for your
contractor before hiring him.
Had I done this before, I would have found that my contractor had been
sued for:
Abandoning a project
Poor workmanship (a couple of times)
Embezzlement and Fraud!
All things that he did to me.
The CSLB says “well we don’t have any record of violations”
But the courts say otherwise.
Please let people know that this option is available to them.
Thanks - Bill
Well Bill missed this very point I make on my website. When we were in litigation with our contractor from hell our attorney pulled up court records showing lawsuits that included the contractor, his father who is an architect and some other partners involved in building projects. We also found his lien history which was abusively long, a common practice amongst unethical contractors. A couple of years after that when I was preparing to testify before the California Senate on a consumer protection bill, the administrator at the Center For Public Interest Law, pulled up even more records dating back to the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and the lawsuits just kept coming. How did they find time for work for God’s sake! Which brings to mind the old adage “the apple does not fall far from the tree”.