Complaint Review: A To Z Roofing Was Ben's Roofing Owner Matt Hoosier

Wow. I cannot believe this post has  been on this site for over a year and I am just now reading it. My blood is absolutely boiling! This is Lynne Waits, wife of Spencer and victim of Matt Hoosier. So Matt, here is my rebuttal to your statements in the above post. All are honest and true; honesty  you should try it sometime.

1. I/we never claimed you were the owner of Ben's Roofing, simply that your company, A to Z Roofing happened to be the new company that our contract went to from our original meeting with the then salesman Chris from Ben's.

2. Yes I agree you used that story about the workers comp being stopped and you could not work until this was resolved. Yet you also promised on a daily basis that it would be done soon. You also promised after you knew we were about to call the state about this that to please give you a chance, you would do the work yourself. We waited.  This never happened either. Matt you continued to lie to us on a weekly basis, the story constantly changing. When asked if you even had the product in stock, your reply was no. This after you wanted to finish the job yourself with what product I wonder? On a side note you
left even more damage happen to the inside of our house since the initial tar job was not done properly around our chimney. This was the final straw, when we had to see water streaming in to our house. We called the proper people to find out what our options were, and as 90 days had gone by without even a sighting of you or anyone representing your company at our house to do ANY work, it was time. This was legally called job abandonment. (in the height of hurricane season I might add, when  it rains - ALOT)  I would drive home at lunch for work for some sort of fact that you were holding to your word. Did this many times did I see anyone? Nope.

3. I am assuming this monetary penalty you mentioned of over $250,000 is where our money went, since we never saw any back.

4. HOW DARE YOU state we never gave you one cent!!!!! I personally have copies of the canceled checks from our insurance company, money given to US to repair our roof!  With YOUR signature on it to endorse. Incredible that you could even say such a thing! You MUST be using some sort of play on words. Not funny.

5. Yes we did file a report, and I find it hard to believe we would never have been told that your license was not even active then so what you are saying is that you started our roofing job without a license? This just keeps getting better and better!  The statement "threw it out for it was without merit" really is a different story than the one told by the letter I received from  the DBPR.  Got all those too.

6. Libelous! Nice. Try looking at the response to number 7.

7. The check. The one that bounced.  The one your company wrote knowing it would not be covered. That YOU signed. I believe that is a felony. Also have copies of that, Matt.  By the way your signatures are all over these documents, and believe me I have it all. So. Back to the check. Our insurance company gave us our first installment made out to us and Ben's Roofing, which was to be the 1st deposit on the job, to have equalled a third of the contracted amount. But and here's the big kicker they wrote it for more than that as the monies they were giving us included other repairs to our home, not just our roof, so instead they divided that in a third, resulting in paying you almost half of the job. I requested that we be able to deposit our check and give the proper deposit amount to your company but and really here is where I should have been more suspicious your company said no, you would write a check back to us for the difference. (actually in hind sight I should have questioned the "name change" from Ben's Roofing to A to Z Roofing I was told about as I handed over the check.  Hmmm)  Big mistake on my part. Huge! To even suggest that we wanted a kickback and commited insurance fraud come on Matt, you're really pushing it here.  Now. To the $5000.00 you offered. This was after many conversations with a mediator (Janelle) on both our behalves. We were told in that same phone call by Janelle , who as conducting it, that even though you offered it (OUT OF YOUR POCKET NICE! WHERE DID THAT MONEY COME FROM TO GET IN YOUR POCKET US!!!) you were unable to pay it at that time, and would have to pay it in some ridiculously small increments in the months to come. She also advised us that if this money never came, we would have to start this whole process all over again. By now we were quite weary of all your unfulfilled promises, and said no, we expected to get back what was due us less the little bit of the job you started, for whatever that was worth. (when the roofer came in to finish your abandoned job, he was able to give me an estimate of what the work that was already done was worth.) Not to mention the dumpster you left in our driveway, (that actually damaged our driveway) which when I finally called All Star, the company it came from, to find out what to do he informed me he had left several messages for you himself, not hearing anything from you,  to pay that bill to have it removed. So who had to pay that? Why us, of course! So that added another $350 to our loss. Thanks Matt.  Seriously. So I am looking at that $5000 as your bribe to make us not take this to the state. Again, classy.

Lying. Hyperbole. Get your facts straight. Something you should say as you look in the mirror, Matt Hoosier. You are in serious need of a reality check. I don't know how you are able to sleep at night knowing the financial hardship you have caused my family.   

I am writing on behalf of Bens Roofing,

There are some discrepancies in what I read and would like to clarify what was written as it is false and untrue. First please read these post that I research for the public/ You can also Google the information by typing his name in the tool bar and his picture will come up so
there are no misunderstandings

Posted:
09/02/2010

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Palm Beach County roofer accused of bilking his customers out of millions of dollars has been arrested. Gregory Haddox was arrested Thursday morning. Haddox was booked into the Palm Beach County jail on seven separate charges of fraud. His arrest follows a News Channel 5 investigation into Haddox and his company, United Roofing.  Haddox is accused of not only writing bad checks but cashing the insurance checks of his customers and never finishing the work

another one is:

Roofer Gregory Haddox followed Hurricane Wilma to the tarp-covered homes of South Florida. Soon after, in 2006, he was jailed because he had no license. Despite his guilty plea, Haddox has continued to operate, leaving a trail of lawsuits and angry homeowners and subcontractors in his wake. The people who hired United Roofing Systems LLC say Haddox has failed to perform in a variety of ways: He has taken their deposits and done no work. He has installed shoddy roofs. He has failed to pay subcontractors, leaving homeowners with the bill. At least 30 homeowners are now facing possible foreclosure from unpaid contractors. Haddox is the sole officer and owner of United Roofing Systems. He has no contractor's license. The state license issued for United is held by Lonnie Brodock, owner of Brodock Roofing Inc. Both companies list 1832 Wabasso Drive as their mailing address. Haddox and Brodock did not return calls placed to United Roofing Systems.

Another one:

Updated: 4:07 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010
Posted: 4:36 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 2010

A company run by a roofer facing a litany of lawsuits alleging shoddy work and failure to pay
subcontractors wrote as many as 300 bad checks per month while doing business in Palm Beach County, authorities said. That revelation came after the manager of United Roofing Systems LLC, Gregory Haddox, was arrested Thursday on felony charges of writing worthless checks. The case, made by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Detective Darla Sauers, revolves around a deal between Haddox and Michael Cully, a suburban Boynton Beach homeowner whose roof was damaged during Hurricane Wilma. Cully told investigators he hired United Roofing to repair the damage, agreeing
to turn over Tower Hill Insurance Group checks totaling $46,884.93 to the company in exchange for work. When the actual cost of the work proved less than that amount, United Roofing agreed to return $11,631.98 to Cully and cut him a check, which bounced. The company told Cully they would work out a payment plan and wrote him another check, this time for $2,000, detectives said. That check bounced too. When Sauers scrutinized United Roofing's bank accounts, she found the
company often operated in the red and passed between 200 and 300 bad checks per month, Sauers said in an affidavit for Haddox's arrest. He was taken Thursday to the Palm Beach County Jail, where he was released hours later after posting $70,000 bond. Cully, who couldn't be reached for comment this afternoon, wasn't the only United Roofing customer to claim he was ripped off. People who hired the company say it took their deposits and did no work, that it installed shoddy roofs and failed to pay subcontractors, sticking homeowners with the bill, The Palm Beach Post reported last month. "There's a whole horrible chain of events that is lurking out there, including the people I represent who have been very badly damaged by all this," said attorney Larry Newman, who added that he's a victim of United Roofing and also represents six jilted Haddox customers. "This is just the tip of all the of people who have been burned." At least 30 homeowners now are facing possible foreclosure from unpaid contractors. United and Haddox have been sued in Palm Beach County Circuit Court by more than a dozen companies, including Dumpsters R Us in West Palm Beach and Latite Roofing in Pompano Beach, as well as individuals. Haddox advertised that his company had a staff of insurance claims specialists when it had none, according to the Florida Department of Financial Services. In February, the department issued a cease and desist order against United Roofing Systems and Haddox. Haddox, 37, came to South Florida from Ohio, where he had a string of judgments, foreclosures, bankruptcies, federal and state tax liens and other problems, according to court records. Those problems appear to be ongoing. In October, an Akron municipal court issued a warrant for his arrest on theft charges.

He was convicted and charge. Mr Haddox was using Ben's Roofing's name without our knowledge. He Stole thousands of dollars and was depositing the check made to Ben's Roofing in his account (Bank of America). These articles or complaints are untrue (Slander and Defamation of Character). As you see clearly from the above that Mr Haddox is a fraud and has no credibility. Before adding adds and complaints, Please look at their criminal history prior to passing judgment. There has never been a charge or a lawsuit placed on our company. Ben` Roofing is a company that takes pride in what they do. We are the only company that follow the manufacturers specification and do not cut corners as they call it. Mike Beni stands 100% behind his company and has been a proud owner for several years and earned his respect through the years with hard, honest and quality work. We are terribly sorry to the people that Mr Haddox has Played as he has played us as well along with other companies. Mr Haddox has not been employed with us for several years and we have no intentions of hiring him back.

Bens Roofing  Humanresource Administrative Assistant

1.  Matt Hoosier was never the owner of Ben's Roofing nor was I an officer of                 Roofing.