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Signature Co.; Vincent J. Nelson Con-man, did nothing, fraudulently charged my credit cards, billed me $50,000--- shoddy work, CROOK Mashpee Massachusetts
On July 27, 2005, I paid $600,000 for a property in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cape Cod. It was a single family house situated on approximately 56,000 square ft. of land.
Headed into foreclosure in conjuction with a good friend and his wife, the property was in deplorable condition, and I intended to renovate over the course of the follow few months, and offer it for sale once the work was completed.
My best general contractor was working on another project at the time, and could not commit to undertake this job when I inquired about his schedule. A second potential project manager came down to Wellfleet and estimated the job; I accepted his proposal, and advanced $12,500.
This person showed up on the job only once but refused to start the work due to a problem with supply delivery. This issue was addressed, and he was to come again to work once these supplies were on site. NO show; he drank himself into the hospital, and waited five days to call in sick. I fired him.
Enter Vinnie Nelson, Signature Co.===
I advertised on Craigslist for a general contractor to renovate my property. After a number of telephone conversations and some brief meetings with him, I gave Vinnie Nelson the job, September 2005.
Over the course of the next 60-75 days, I paid Vinnie Nelson a total of over $50,000 in cash. He did virtually nothing in work on my property:-- I ordered windows for the lower level, and he installed them in an inferior manner, placing the sills outside as opposed to inside, where they would have created an interior ledge/shelf.
Vinnie Nelson engaged an incompetent flooring company to install roughly 1150 square feet of bamboo flooring in the downstairs of my house.
Vinnie Nelson sub-contracted a limited amount of landscaping on my property, renting a chipper to shread a number of pine trees, and a "bobcat" tractor equipped with an oversized trailer, for the purpose of uprooting stumps of unwanted pine trees, grinding those they could, and loading the rest into the dumpster.
This machinery was driven into a lowlying section of the lot and subsequently became entrenched. It took a crew of two and three men a matter of days to extricate this equipment from the sand.
In early December, a number of unauthorized charges appeared on my Bank of America Visa card. Having been given the card number and security code to pay for an order of tile, he began charging things such as motel rooms, auto repair, vet bills, material for other jobs, and even a Florida cruise, without my permission.
In October 2005, I gave Vinnie Nelson $10,000 in cash to pay for an order of custom windows and doors, from Mid-Cape Home Center. The order was placed, but never paid for. Vinnie Nelson took one long walk with my money, and after firing him my main contractor took over the project. I decided to put on a large addition, and procurred doors and windows needed for this from his supplier.
Vinnie Nelson not only admitted theft; he signed an affadavit to make full restitution, which to date he has dishonored.
Law enforcement "officials" in his jurisdiction have no interest in protecting consumers and residents in their respective towns; for God sakes, if I live in Boston and own a $million+ property on Cape Cod, who am I to complain when some leach disguised as a contractor crawls up my butt and feeds to satiation.
My tax consultant has a mighty fat 1099 for this b***, so let hime hope he told Uncle Sam about all the money I paid him to do a whole lotta nothing, perhaps $15,000 in shoddy work on $55,000 off my payroll.
Douglas
Cambridge, Massachusetts
U.S.A.
5 Updates & Rebuttals
Douglas Pratt
Providence,Rhode Island,
United States
Tradenix.io ripoff update
#6Author of original report
Thu, August 08, 2019
On January 15, I received a phone call from someone identifying himself as Paul, from Tradenix. He had no clue as to who Max Bauer and Eric Wright are~~ he told me he had access to my account, but could only verify the information I gave him with respect to my trade history. I was driving, so we agreed that he would call me back at 9:30 PM. No call ever came.......
Persuant to filing an action with Ripoffrevenge.com, the company stole a total of roughly $4,500 from me. The account balance that went to zero on October 24 was $7,400~~ the difference is comprised of bonus money that was credited based upon my trading volume, and the deposits I made to my account through Max Bauer. I could demand this, though it wasn't money out of pocket for me, so the total amount of the damages they imposed upon me is $4,500, and that's the amount I am going to ask them to repay.
Douglas
Cambridge,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
How it turned out.......
#6Author of original report
Fri, July 16, 2010
I have lost everything, two homes, my businesses, entire life savings, and net worth, largely due to Vinnie Nelson....
Douglas
Cambridge,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Rebuttal to Vinnie Nelson's RIPOFF
#6Author of original report
Mon, June 28, 2010
Let it be known to one and all, that Vinnie Nelson of Mashpee, and his fraudulent entity called "Signature" contracting, was NEVER exonerated of the criminal charges I pressed against him. A dimwit judge got fed up with all the continuances, and decided that lunch was more important than my entire life savings and the $70,000 Vinnie Nelson cheated me out of, so he threw the case out--- to the breezes of Cape Cod.
Douglas
Cambridge,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Response to RIPOFF Vinnie Nelson-- He signed affadavits of guilt; judge didn't want to do his job
#6Author of original report
Mon, June 29, 2009
There was never a plan to defraud any insurance company; I filed no insurance claims duing the course of the project, or after it failed.
The bamboo flooring was installed improperly, and buckled up several inches. The contractor who took over the project after Vinnie Nelson said that the bamboo should have been floated over the concrete base, with a vapor barrier. Vinnie Nelson's flooring subcontractor glued the bamboo directly to the concrete, and this is why the flooring was ruined.
Vinnie Nelson hired a lawyer, and the case was continued several times. The judge finally decided that the case was getting old, he was getting hungry and wanted to go to lunch, so he dismissed the charges. Vinnie gave his lawyer a $400 retainer and that lawyer mentioned to me that while he was not being paid, he still had to continue to appear in court as the case was ongoing.
The judge was a dimwit. Even the DA was shocked when he tossed the case to go to lunch. I lost several months of time on this project; had Vinnie Nelson done the work we contracted well, the project would not have failed.
Credit Card Fraud, Grand Larceny, and Embezzlement.
Vinnie Nelson signed an affadavit admitting having put personal charges on my Bank of America VISA card. These included hotel rooms in Leominster, Ma. 2 hours away from his home in Mashpee where he lives with his wife and children. He paid vet bills, had his truck repaired~~ not to mention that we caught his stealing from my job site, and a goodly number of our payroll records went missing.
My girlfriend lived there 5 days a week; she had to move out of her apartment at short notice because her upstairs neighbor broke in and stole money and jewelry while she was at work. I did not lavish her with any very expensive gifts while the project was going on; in total, I would say that I spent less than $2,000 during the time Vinnie was working for me.
He installed the windows on the lower level backward. The were supposed to be flush up against the side of the house, with a sill on the inside. Instead, they sills were on the outside, sloping down. When it rained we had to shut all the windows so that water wouldn't come in.
This man is a thief. Lowlife.
I've been on various medications for OCD and a mild epilepsy since 1989; I was not on Prozac at the time the project was going on. My regimen was well tweaked by the time this project began.
The friend from whom I bought this property was convicted of "indecent assault" on a babysitter; the morning in question, he was sick with strep throat and had a temperature of 103.7. I attended much of his trial; it was a joke.... the woman did this just to get money from his insurance company; he went to prison, and she walked away grinning with $75,000.
As a result of the failure of this project, I lost both of my homes:-- this one, and another in Cambridge which was my primary residence. One of my best friends put $200,000 of his own money into it, which he lost. My entire life savings and net worth was also wiped out.
Vinnie Nelson brokered the sub-prime mortgage I took to complete the project, at a horrendous rate of interest and pver $35,000 in fees. He signed a document promising to apply his portion of the brokerage commission toward what he stole, and paid back nothing.
Before you consider dealing with this scumbag, think about what happened to me. He will rob you blind.
Vincent
Mashpee,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Pratt vs. Nelson-Dismissed in Orleans Court,Ma. July 2008
#6REBUTTAL Owner of company
Wed, April 08, 2009
Douglas Pratt took me (Vincent J. Nelson) to Orleans court and the case was dismissed in July of 2008. I never rip him off. He and his leve3 sex offered partner stage the whole situation to rip of his Insurance company on false claims of pipes bursting and water damage. This is the scam he tried to get over on the flooring contractor after the bamboo floor was installed.He also used the funds from a refinancing his two properties to buy lavish gifts for his girl friend living in the Wellfleet home when we working there. I was the third Contractor he hired to complete the project. When he received funding from the loan ,he then along with partner Micheal Becker had all the plans and the job laid-out to be completed with in 60 days, that is when he fired me and used all my workers to try and complete the project. But with his prozac induced comma ,he left Becker in charge, who could not even get out of bed(vicoden hang-over) and the job fell apart to poor management just like before they hired me. His so called Main Contractor(who was busy at the time) was hired to complete the job, but because of numerous and costly changes to the original plans He in fact quit the job,left it incomplete , sued Pratt and place a lein on the property because he was never paid. My men worked on the job until they too were not paid for their work.The list is long for those who can confirm what I have written and is all public record.Pratt lost both properties,Becker was evicted(court order) and justice was served in my case in Orleans court. If Pratt and Becker had worked with me and my men on the original plans, the project would have been completed in May of 07 and sold for 1.2 million while the real estate market was still strong, Sincerely your Vincent J.Nelson