Keith Lindeke Const Co
Capitola,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, June 21, 2010
I was begged by a Diane Chaichi 3-4 times to help her with a court case. Some one did some work on her house and butchered it. She kept begging with me to help her because time was running out of time for her to take the case to court. I told her that I had to finish the work that I was doing and then I had to have an extreme back surgery. I gave in and told her up front that I'd be an expert witness for her and her lawyer, but she had to promise me that she'd pay me if she won or lost. She quarnteed me she would. She even said she was involved in a court case aganist the other contractor in her complaint in this forum. Common sense would tell yu that if it was in that stage of the situation that she needed someone to be a witness for her about the shoddy work that was done. I wouldn't and couldn't have given her a bid for work because I'd be recuperating from the back surgery for 6 months. So it proves that what she sai in her complaint that she was lying about it.
I took pictures and wrote up a report for her and her attorney and told her that I needed to be paid for half of the work before I gave her the information. (I gave all of her paper work back to her.) And be paid the other half after I went to court. If I just gave the nformation tothe attorney I knew I'd never see a cent for the work I did. She won the case with the work and informaion I did for them. Shecalledmeand told me that they won and I didn't need to go to court for them. When I asked to be paid she told me that her attorney toldher notto pay me. I took her to court and wo. She appealed it, but I was recuperationg from the surgery and couldn't go to court. So that's why she sai that she wonin court.I have the papers from the first trial say I won and that she owed me the money.
So not only did she rip me offfor the money she wrote this complaint about the situation, where I lost several jobs because of it.
Tipical lawyer, he won the case and got paid only because of the workthat I did and won't have if I didn't and then compeledhis clientnot topay me or helping them. I needed the money and had to go back to work to soon and hurt my back and got nerve damage in my back that caused permanent numness in my feet.
In 40 years of construction work I have never had one complaint about anything that I did, either fo rthe work or the way that I conducted my business. This is slander plain and simple. I would have sued both her and her lawyer if I wasn't so sick. And because of that back surgery I go a staff infection that almost killed me and left me with severe nerve damage in my back that effects both legs and feet.
Just goes to show you that no good deed goes unpunished.