Victory Construction

Ok We were so scared that we would pick the wrong contractor and that they would take our money. We called Mike Treat for an estimate he had come by and gave a quote of 55,000.00 .So we had gotton other estimates so when Mike Treat called back to see if we had made a choice yet about the job I had explained that we had gotten quotes that were lower then his.He of course lowered his estimate to 48,000.00. He had even brought his children over after church one Sunday. So of course we went with him. Mike Treat started the job on September 11,2011 and promised that the whole house would be done within 8 weeks. At first all was well Mr.Treat started outside first and someone was here everyday removing and replacing siding,the roof.He had asked for 10,000.00 down and then every two weeks he was asking for more money. The outside took more then the eight weeks Mr.Treat said it would take the entire house.By the time Mr.Treat had started the inside he had 40,000.00. I know that was a mistake cause then Mr.Treat changed things were really coming along slow most of the time there was only one gentle man here working. We had tried to speak him about how slow things were going and he got very upset. Then he had asked for more money again we explained that we were not gonna give any more money til the job was finished he got very upset and started packing his stuff up and told his man that were leaving till we paid him my husband tried to explain that he had 90% of the money and only 50% of the job was done. We argued and he was getting ready to leave the house so we ended up giving him more money. Well still work was slow not one room was completed and all we owed was 1400.00 to Mike Treat and a week after the last draw he wanted 1200.00 more we said no he told us then we can finish the job ourselves this is now November 30,2011. And still there is no one room completed. He walked out and forced a locked door to our garage open and started removing tools and drywall and molding. I went outside and my son removed the drywall and molding from his truck.  I explained the my 44,000.00 that he was paid to do our job paid for that. and i asked him to leave the property before i called the police it was terrible.My kids were upset and my husband ended up having to come home from work. It is now December 3,2011 and We have tried called Mike Treat everyday to ask for the work to be done or to give us back the money for all the uncompleted work. He says that we can take him to court but we will never see that money again. My husband has asked to meet him in a resturant or somewhere else so they will talk and Mr.Treat refuses.This is the same man that sat at my kitchen table of couse before we signed the contract and promised my daughter who is thirteen that she would have a brand new house in eight weeks. As of today we have gooton no response and its just a few weeks from christmas and our house is torn apart to the point that we can't put a tree up and not sure if we can buy gifts cause we need to pay again to get our house back together. We do have pictures of all the uncompleted work.

They replaced my roof and they were very friendly, charismatic, and seemed honest.  They did have to come back out a few different times to fix an area where there was a small leak.  I haven't had a problem since then though.