THOMAS M WOOD BUILDERS INC

I signed a contract for him to redo three rooms into a kitchen.  After spending $13000.00 on cabinets, I found that could get no guarantee service from the distributor because Wood had not paid him.  Wood would not provide the guarantee service saying it was up to the distributor.  The distributor refused to speak with me until Wood paid him.  I have no clue if the payment was ever paid by him.  I had the candcelled check for the $13000.00 I paid the contractor for my cabinets but the distributor did not care and continued to refuse to speak with me.  I was caught in the middle between the two.  As a contractor Wood should have made sure that all accounts were cleared so that I could have the guarantee upheld.  Instead all he would say was that he wasn't going to pay the distributor until he made another kitchen (his son's) right.  Unprofessional.

By him doing this the way he does, as stated, your priority is to finish the project on your own or hire another contractor. Thereby purposely depleting your financial resources so that your ability to pursue him legally is greatly limited. The lack of building codes and lack of mandatory contractor licenses in Vermont, make it extremely difficult to pursue him legally and he can, through considerable experience, knows how to hire an attorney and play tit for tat plus reducing the ability and likelihood that you will ever be able to pursue him to the full extent that the law would permit. Mr. Wood is currently and has been for the last 3 months doing business under the radar without using his company name. He prints generic ads listing only the office manager s name (Debbie). The line of Harvest Homes panelized home packages, his son, James Wood, makes it appears as now the franchisees for Harvest home packages in this area. He specifically preys on clients that are from out of the area. He appears to be professional on the surface, but in fact he is a professional crook. These cases fall under civil law, but not under criminal law, and therefore are much, much harder to prove because they come under he said, she said.