5 FIELDS CONTRACTING

After more than a month of on-again off-again work and payments totaling $6,250, we had no choice but to terminate our contract with 5 Fields Contracting. After the relationship was terminated, Mr. Fields contacted us and threatened to place a lien on our house. At this point we contacted our lawyer. He spoke with Mr. Fields and they verbally agreed that Mr. Fields would reimburse us $2,000 on a payment plan. Mr. Fields never signed the agreed upon contract or returned our lawyer?s phone calls. At this point, we had no other recourse but the court system, which we had hoped to avoid. We filed a lawsuit to recover the full cost of the kitchen remodel and our lawyer expenses. Mr. Fields did not appear in court and as a result, the judge put a lien on Mr. Fields property for the full amount of our kitchen, legal expenses and court costs. We do not believe Mr. Fields intentionally set out to deceive and cheat us. He did a decent job on simple shelving in our pantry but did not possess the finished carpentry skills to execute such a large job. It is our belief that he simply got in over his head.

Rodney started working at our house when a painting job we were having done turned out to require carpentry as well. We like him and his work, and he returned at least 8 or 10 times over the next few weeks to do additional projects for us as they came up. He was always pleasant, showed up as agreed, had good ideas, did quality work, and was patient about redoing projects when we asked for changes. His charges were very reasonable for the amount of time he spent on our projects.