Accu-Tech Services

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We are first time owners of 6 acres of land since the beginning of this year (2010). This investment was for future planning of having a life after retiring the Army in a few years and having our own space in the country for generations to come. The guy who serviced us was a known friend for 4 years and member/supporter of the same local Saddle Club. We were recommended to him by a friend to us all who witnessed that all we had to give was only $4500.00. We trusted him after the verbal agreement that this was a friendship deal to help us from seeking well known contractors who are costly for service. I was deployed in Afghanistan at the time everything took place with high appreciation that someone is looking after my spouse for dealing with the home, bills and children altogether. I had my own plans to honor the services done to our new property with free favors and family gatherings on my expense when I'd return. I called every-other-day from thousands of miles in war to later hear my spouse report that the guy shows up on sporadic days and times to work. We were making final boarding payments for our horses and were planning to relocate them on our newly purchased land. My spouse pounded over 400 T Poles by hand and sawed down cedar trees before construction equipment was used to clear the rest. I'm thankful with all my life for a good wife who works hard and never done such work before. We payed the man $3000 by check up front and $400 cash to ensure him we were serious about the agreement. Around a month later during the completion of his work; he blindsided my spouse with an estimate he made up on the spot on the back of a business card for $8800. He last received a check for $1000 and wasn't seen on our land again but left all of his equipment without permission and never intended to retrieve it from our property. My spouse made several calls to him and his son to pick up his equipment and no one responded. I returned from deployment a couple of months later to see the abandoned equipment myself. It was very unprofessional and disrespectful. As it looked, the job was done but not to a professional standard. Everything was uneven and had large rocks left all over that my spouse and me picked by hand. We even had to remove left over stumps left behind to keep the horses from tripping over them. I couldn't expect more because it was a $4500 job. We gave up calling and asked around anyone from the Saddle Club of his whereabouts and intentions. Reports came through that he had no intentions of moving his equipment until we pay up his fabricated amount of $8800. After hearing the same bad news from more than a couple of sources we sought after legal advise to prepare to charge storage for his abandonment. 5 months had already past and he suddenly called on my answer machine in the morning when we were away having some family fun. We returned his call in the evening only to hear him explain how he trespassed on our property and rolled his 18 wheeler and flatbed out; not knowing he stole a picture by cell phone of our combination lock during the beginning of him clearing our property. I mentioned that he's not allowed to trespass without permission from us as the owners of the property. He made up a story that he's protected by Texas law to go on any property and take what he think is his without need for consent of the owners. It was only conclusive that he took action without permission only because word has circulated around the Saddle Club that he would be charged for damages and storage for his abandoned equipment. About a week or so later, he sent his family and 2 other Saddle Club members as help out to collect his remaining abandoned equipment at nearly 10PM. I caught them standing outside my entry gate because I changed the locks. They as well didn't have permission to be on our property and were taught the same philosophy from their head of household to think they have special Texas Laws to permit them to cut locks and tread over anyone's property. The main individual was no where in sight, but his family were completely opposite of his vulgar personality. So, I allowed them in only on the condition that they were to take all remaining equipment off our property and never to return. They did so after having to jump start the auger. Over a week later, my spouse and me received letters with an invoice higher than the business card estimate. It was showing $13,483.50 of never seen before fabricated estimates that weren't even discussed before and during any work that ended 5 months ago. This was the first and only receipt of a professional, itemize estimate we'd seen months later. As mentioned before, we all started this as a verbal agreement as friends and not as clients to a businessman. Most people know that if a professional business is to conduct any work, they will provide all known costs up front and have it in writing to hold their clients responsible to the written and signed contract, if they agree to all costs. We left a message on his answering service and he later returned the call. He was immediately confronted about what was going through his mind to hike up the price twice over the 5 month period without verbal consent or a signed written agreement. The conversation was pointless and he couldn't stay on the subject. He was swearing in every sentence and lied periodically, even on the local Sheriff Department of their cooperation to permit him to trespass and cut locks on both occurrences. I called the Sheriff Department Dispatch to confirm his dates and times afterward. There weren't any dispatches for his case existing. He was completely disrespectful with his history of actions towards us along with the abandoning of his equipment. He's a bully and made it honestly hard to keep my composure not to react disrespectful in return. Nearly an hour passed with him violently rambling about making a trip to tear down our fencing believing that he has to right to do so if we don't pay the invoice. Sounds like blackmail, right? We have horses roaming our property and are alert for his actions if they're to take place. If the actions do occur, it's unimaginable of the outcome if the horses were to not only injure themselves but also cause a collision on the public road immediately outside our entry gate. The conversation ended with the guy spending the last minutes rambling the same spill with my spouse. He actually had the nerve to demand us to cut him a check for the ridiculous amount or partial of it on the invoice before hanging up. I blew off the steam and sent him a final check for $100 which was the remaining owed of the original $4500 agreement. Only due to that fact we waited up around 6 months just to get him to remove his equipment before paying the final amount. It would be insane to consider paying that fabricated invoice due to his violent, verbal scare tactics. Come to find out, his business isn't a business at all. He uses his father's home address instead of having a real office and his cell phone as his business number. This explains some of the reason why he scatters his equipment over people's property when he doesn't have a job site to store his own stuff. I never been in such drama over ignorance from an adult. When you come from a year long deployment looking for some rest and peace with family at home; it's unbelievable that a so-called 'friend', a fellow American, would stoop low in an instant to attempt to take advantage of your loved-ones while you're away. If a former friend, like this guy, can turn out to be such a greedy bully to his friends then there's no telling how worse he made situations for his other customers over the involvement of money.