Well, it's been an interesting last couple of days here. Wifey and I have sent letters to all the HO's that were affected by all this and I also called them on the phone and then we went to each and every one of them to explain what was going on.

With the exception of 2 very desperate couples waiting to get into a new home, they all had "fired" the GC and his cast of merry rockers after we explained the reason GC was tacking on this extra 10G's. I offered to do the work for the 2 couples at cost only, that very much want to get into their new homes and also gave them some names of a couple of other sheetrock companies that do very good work if they can convince the GC to use them for the work. The other 5 new home buyers had already contacted their builders and have started legal actions since their builders are not the GC. Both of the builders for these 5 new homes have now found a new GC that I've worked with before and seems to take his work seriously and in a professional manner.

As to the 10 other kitchen reno folks, they had already told this con-artist GC where he could stick the job and gone on to other ways of getting the work done. One guy told us it was a bit of a refreshing change because his wife wanted to get the GC to do the work and the owner really wanted to do the basic work himself - but not the electrical or plumbing.
His wife had caved in to that demand but she did show me some of the other work around their house previously and I must say that I might be inclined to agree with his wife about his carpentry "skills".

However that's between the two of them and we wound up getting the electrical reno anyways. Although, I think I might have to make sure I have some lumber and wood working tools with us when we go to do the job.

So it seems we have booted another scam artist GC out of the city now and maybe our crew can carry on with business.

I wonder where this guy will surface next.