Harrison Smith Development, LLC

I made two mistakes when I hired this contractor. I signed a contract with no finish date. And I also agreed to give him a very large sum of money initially and after the slab had been poured! The garage is halfway done and this contractor has failed at following the garage plans in two ways. First he used an insulation around the slab and footings that was not included in the garage plans. The second is that the plans call for 2"X4" construction and the contractor bought both 2"X4" boards and 2"X6" boards for the frame. The 2, two by six walls came out fine; but the 2, 2"X4" walls are sitting on mostly insulation and are not structurally sound. The frame failed an inspection. The contractor did not stay for the frame build and now is accusing his subcontractor of not following his directions. The contractor refuses to pay the subcontractor saying he made an error on the frame. This contractor has over $35,000 and has not returned my calls in going on a month and had done nothing to fix the frame in going on two months. This guy has given me false hope twice saying that he has scheduled the framers to come fix the frame, only to find out he hasn't even talked to the framers! I wasted my time waiting for framers when he hadn't even asked them to come out. Worse, when the framers asked for the original amount of money this contractor agreed to pay, (which wasn't much), he told them he was going to try to get the money together. He has an awful amount of my garage money to be telling people that he has to "try" to come up with the money. To top all of that off now the contractor is upset that I am trying various venues to get him to finish the job, including CID and obtaining a lawyer. My last communication from this contractor was a text saying he was in a difficult place and finding it difficult to deal with my "very tight budget." He has taken no responsibility for straying from the plans in two ways that upped the budget, (the insulation and the 2"X6" boards). In themselves not bad, but I wish he would just do what he said he would do. All I want is the garage finished as per the contract. I look outside and see a structurally unsound frame that is exposed to the elements for going on two months, trusses on the driveway floor and no other work being done. And the cherry on top is that this contractor continues to solicit more work and posts multiple times a month on Craigslist.