Martel Enterprises Inc

We have had another contractor give us an cost estimate of the work Martel completed. It was $16,000. This was before we learned that the subfloor had to be redone. So we are out $30,000 plus the cost of redoing the subfloor.

We signed a contract to have a modular beach home built October 10, 2010 with initial startup payments of $46,000. This was to cover building permits, windstorm inspection, engineering drawings,installation and materials for pilings and sub floor and the purchase of all the SIP Panels (walls - the larget cost). The contract stated that the house would be substantially completed by January 15th. However, the building permit was not even obtained by that date. After that time, Chip Martel obtainined the bldg and septic permits and installed the pilings and subfloor but he did not get approval of the Windstorm Inspection engineer. It was later learned that the subfloor didn not meet inspection requirements and the floor joists and sub floor would need to be redone. Then at the beginning of March, Chip Martel took time off the job for many personal reasons: spring break, death in the family, other work to finish. The SIP Panels had not been purchased and yet he had our payment that was to go for those panels. Chip kept saying that he would start the next week, but the next week he would come up with another reason that he couldn't make it. We asked repeatedly for him to put together a new timeline that he could meet. On March 28, he sent an email stating he did not intend to continue the project - he quit the contract. He stated that he would send an itemized list of the cost with the refundable portion. He never did. We asked for this again (documented in 6 emails) but we received nothing. We had tried to resolve the situation thru the Dispute Resolution Center (part of the BBB). He canceled all 3 of the meetings arrangeed. We had an attorney contact him with no results. After learning of my first bad review, he called irrate to say that we would never get a penny back.