Harcourt Construction

It was very hard to reach them at first.  Once I hired them, we sat down and both signed a contract, and I paid a down payment of $5,000, he requested $1,000 more the next day, he said he didn't have enough for glue.  They didn't begin working until 4 days after they were supposed to start.  Once the work began, it seemed to be going rather slow, even came home from work a few times and they hadn't been there all day.  The last day they worked, heavy rain was in the forecast and I called the owner to see what was going on.  He assured me that the roof would hold and it would not leak but to call him if we had any issues.  That night we were woken up by water dripping in the house.  We walked around the house and had water coming in every room under what he was replacing, up to 2 inches on the floor of the laundry room.  I called him from 3 am until 9 am, when he finally called me back.  He came over and squegeed off the roof and looked at our furnace because water had gotten in there too.  He left and said to call him if we had any other issues.  At that time we started looking in to things and our research showed the his contractors licence was not in good standing, and he had other issues like this reported against him.  I requested my money back, I was told that wasn't an option due to all of the money going into the materials.  I then told him if he couldn't help us that we would have to consider finding someone else.  After that he assumed that we had terminated the contract, we hadn't, and he packed up his truck and left without us knowing he was coming back.  We had to call a friend to help us tarp the roof to protect it from further damage.  We had $14k damage to the interior of the house, and an $8k mold test.  And $10k to hire someone else to fix the roof.  We spent 4 months in a hotel due to the damage, I spent 6 hours in the hospital due to respiratory issues due to the damaged walls being opened during water mitigation.  To top it all off, according to the ND Dept. of Labor, this company is not licensed, due to not being insured.  It is now over a year and a court case later, the house still isn't 100%.  This company has caused my worst nightmare.