Complaint Review: Impact Builders LLC

I signed a contract with Impact Builders LLC in April 2019 for the remodelling of a 1350 sqft space into a restaurant.

The final negotiation meeting was held at Frank Walker’s home, then contract was sealed and notarized by a public officer. Mr Byron Lavon Motley represented Impact Builders LLC.

The terms of the contract stipulated a two-month completion timeline with an initial deposit and a milestone-based payment plan.

The project began after my company made the required deposit payments, and also subsequent prompt payments.

However, after the second payment, Mr Byron, who was the project manager, sent another request for payment while the agreed milestone was yet to be delivered. We issued a post-dated (5-day) for the requested payment to allow us enough time to observe the intention of Mr Byron and his boss, Mr Frank Walker.

To our greatest surprise, Mr Byron called for a meeting the day after the check was issued to complain that they couldn't cash the post-dated check. The news scared me to my narrow because no genuine business attempts to cash a post-dated check before the due and agreed date. I was furious, but I kept my calm and questioned the motive behind attempting to cash the check before the agreed date. In defense, Mr Byron claimed that his boss only tried to verify if there was cash in the account.

After the check was cashed on the signed date, even though the agreed milestone had not been completely delivered, Mr Byron’s presence at the worksite began to diminish. I questioned his absence, he claimed he had personal problems and apologized and promised to deliver as soon as possible.

Later on, he requested for another payment (part of the payment plan), but we refused to submit the payment because he was delinquent on delivering the set milestones and the completion date on the the contract was near.

This continued until we got tired of his attitude and stories, and we got a mediator involved (someone from his state)

The mediator spoke to Byron to understand the reason for his laxity, he claimed that his boss(Mr Frank) kept all our payments to himself and asked him to disapper from the job site. Obviously, it's a game they play on unsuspecting clients like us.

Six months later after the contract was signed and payments were made, Mr Byron disappeared with a total of 110,000 without completing the project. He abandoned our job, scammed us, left us with a considerable debt, a six-month rent and interest accrual, lost profit, lost revenue and a huge opportunity cost of our time and money!

His wickedness got me depressed and almost led me to suicide.   I have all the records of our chat, payment requests, payment acknowledgement, sub-contractors payment, etc.

Mr Frank Walker II and Mr Byron Lavon Motley lack the dignity to be Identified as businessmen.

All I want is for Mr Frank Walker II and Byron Motley to complete the project or refund the equivalent of the pending or undelivered work.