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  • Report:  #221624

Complaint Review: Signature Co.; Vincent J. Nelson - Mashpee Massachusetts

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- Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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Signature Co.; Vincent J. Nelson
191 James Circle Mashpee, 02649 Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Phone:
508-539-2509
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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

#2Author 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.......

#3Author 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....


The dimwit judge in Orleans District Court felt his growling stomach was important than my entire life's work, so he threw the case out.

Vinnie Nelson signed affidavits admitting his thefts, along with promissory notes to pay back the money he stole from me. I received NOTHING.

His own lawyer, off the record, had an opinion to express, one which I shouldn't publish here out of respect for him, and the professional protocols of this business. Suffice it to say, Vinnie Nelson paid a $400 retainer, and I lost count early on as to how times they were both summoned into court before this dimwit judge threw the case out. "Sorry I'm hungry, Doug. Why don't you just file bankruptcy?"

I do have the name of that judge on file. Evicted from three properties in just as many months, things didn't exactly stay in good order.

Vinnie Nelson will soon be receiving a 1099 income statement from my independent tax consultant, the exact amount of which has yet to be determined. $57,000 is a very low guesstimate; I expect that the actual amount will come in well over $80,000.

Hey Vinnie, I hope you declared all you stole from me on your 2005 tax returns. If you didn't say goodbye to that house of yours in Mashpee, along with your wife and children when they see the check-in rosters from the motels rooms you rented on my credit card to entertain your boyfriends.

No, this is not an effort at extortion or "blackmail." All I want from you is that which is rightfully mine, along with the interest I paid on the money you fraudulently took from me. This includes the $11,000+ I gave you up front in cash, to pay for an order of custom-made Anderson doors and windows, which are STILL sitting in dead stock at Mid-Cape Home Center in Wellfleet. How 'bout a bamboo floor, which you installed incorrectly on the lower level of my home~~ it all buckled up, got moldy, and ruined because you didn't read the directions!! 1,135 square feet of WASTE!
You put replacement windows on the lower level in BACKWARD! The sills were inside out and outside in!. You didn't grade the foundation properly, so in winter we started getting water. Not once since 1967 did the original owner, my friend who bought the property in 1989 for $207,000, nor I, who paid $600,000 in CASH, have water in the basement, until you came along. I paid thousands of dollars for a bobcat that the guy operating it got stuck in the sand, and thousands more for a chipper with which you were to shred over 360 pine trees; you took care of barely 45. I was double-billed for 4 Greek columns, to build a trestle over an outside patio. Instead, you took them up to the roof, to enhance a roof deck you already knew I was going to demo, and then, as we decided to put them down below for a grand terrace, covered with grape vines and graced by a fountain, you left them out in the rain in the back yard for weeks~~ then comes another bill from Mid-Cape for $880 more, for guess what? Four Greek Ionic design pedestal pillars, 8' tall.

Your architect charged me $4,500 for your blueprints and "elevations," few of which you implemented. After I caught you stealing and fired you, my main contractor came in and took over the project, but by then, it was too late. Winter had set in, and there were several snowstorms that produced a foot or more; winds of over 90 MPH+ blew 18-pound concrete cinder blocks off the roof like pine cones, and tarpaulins made of heavy canvas or carbon fiber reinforced nylon were ripped to shreds, or carried off in the wind. We had to open all windows on the top level to prevent being blown to hell, and on one occasion that winter, a few upstairs pipes froze~ Scotch another 6 grand, Douggieboy, right????

I lost well over $1 million on this project. When you and I met in September of 2005, you presented me a precise budge of $157,000, along with your architect's drawings. All the money was on hand, funds which I delegated as you instructed. Michael lived there after I bought the property from his divorce estate, days before it was to go to sale at foreclosure.

You doubled-billed Michael and me for payroll, so alot of that was paid twice. After he caught you stealing from the job site, much of our payroll records went "missing." He was paying your workers in cash, or from our escrow account down there, while YOU were billing the same charges to me up here in Cambridge.Even after I fired you, allegations arose from within that you were offering cash to a few of your former workers, to lift supplies from my job site, and deliver it to you, to be paid in cash at a generous discount from even the wholesale prices you and I were both paying.

Exonerated??? No!! You were excused by a lazy, shiftless judge who didn't want to do his job. The DA was livid!! And so was I. Thanks to you, I've lost both that home, and my one in Cambridge.

You suck, Vinnie Nelson. I'll leave it to God to decide whether to d**n you, or not...

And now that it's written, let it always be know, and said as the truth.

Legalese:-- All statements made herein are truthful, to the best of my knowledge. It is under auspices and protection conferred by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, that I make this declaration. Aspects which may be construed to constitute my own personal opinions, may, or may not, represent each, and/or every, absolute fact. I reserve the right to amend this statement, correcting any and all definitively demonstrated errata which may come to my attention.


Douglas

Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Rebuttal to Vinnie Nelson's RIPOFF

#4Author 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.


Vinnie Nelson had signed affidavits admitting guilt on all charges, and I was prosecuting on credit card fraud, grand larceny, and felony embezzlement.

The allegations that I was acting in concert with my business partner in this venture, in an attempt to defraud an insurance company, are totally and completely BOGUS. Never was any insurance claim filed with respect to this property, 215 King Philip Rd. Wellfleet Mass., Cape Cod, at any time before, during or after Vinnie Nelson's participation in the project. I lost over $1 million, and a best friend from Millis, who had done projects for me in the Boston area, advanced to me another $200,000 in labor and material, which was also swallowed up in foreclosure. I lost my primary residence in Cambridge, along with this Cape Cod project, a condominium in Westerly, RI, and my entire net worth and life savings. Today I live in a roach infested dump of an apartment; in March 2009 I had a close brush with suicide, that had me in a locked ward for a week.

Vinnie Nelson is gay. Married with two children, he used my credit card, use of which I had granted him to pick up a $625 order of tile in Yarmouth, to book hotel rooms, near and far~~ along with the Florida cruise, vet bills for his sick dog, truck repairs, and an assortment of supplies designated for other jobs. He double billed for material and labor done on other jobs, and a vast pile of our payroll records went missing....

Bank of America chose to write off the unauthorized charges on my credit card rather than prosecute this b*****d~~ in all, it amounted to about $3,800.

I have documentation to substantiate all aspects of this rebuttal, and have no qualms in bringing this to the attention of his family~~ indeed, they all deserve to know what they're dealing with.
That's all. Legalese:-- all statements made herein are factual/documented to the best of my knowledge, and made under auspices and protection of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Any party wishing to refute anything I have stated or alleged is welcome to do so, in this open forum, or in a court of law, in any venue holding jurisdiction over this matter.

I shall state without reservation:-- Vinnie Nelson is an incompetent contractor, and a thief. Work he did on my Cape Cod home before I caught him stealing and fired him, include improper installation of a bamboo floor, which buckled up and was ruined due to having been incorrectly installed under his supervision, expensive rentals of stump removal, chipping, and tractor equipment which sat stuck for days as his crews didn't know how to operate this machinery properly, improper sill drainage, and installation of replacement windows on the lower level, exterior grading, interior window sills and door frames [some were actually mounted backward or upside-down,] installation of improper dry-wall and sheetrock, in both material and geometry, wrong [or nothing] of insulation required by code, a small amount of illegal electrical and plumbing work, all of which had to be torn out during preliminary inspection, numerous fire hazards, and a hideous revision of the roof deck, materials of which I paid for TWICE!.

Mid Cape Home Center took Vinnie Nelson's order from me, for roughly $12,000, in custom made Anderson doors, windows, and the three 8-foot sliders leading off the great room, onto the 1,300 square foot rear deck. I had already contracted wrought iron railings and banisters for this part of the project, along with 5,200 square feet of marble tile and inlays to make a grand patio, with overhead frescos and vines, these taken from the columns Vinnie Nelson had planned to put on the roof deck. I paid for four of these columns, but only two were delivered to the job site.

Vinnie Nelson did place the order for $12,000 in custom doors and windows with the Mid-Cape Home Center, but guess what??? He never paid for them. He stuck $12,000 of my cash into his wallet, and last I knew, Mid-Cape Home Center in Wellfleet had a bit of useless overstock. They got screwed, too.

Primarily by grace of Vinnie Nelson, the project failed. I lost well over a million, and one of my best friends chipped in another $200,000~ and it all went down the drain..

I hope you're happy, Vinnie Nelson. I lost two homes, and one of my best friends had to borrow to put his son into college.

Keep on renting hotel rooms, and hiding from your family. I don't give a d**n about your sexuality~~ only in so much as you've brought it here to my doorstep.

Today I'm on Section 8 and food stamps. I will likely never recover from the damage you've inflicted upon me. My wife had a nervous breakdown, and then shattered her knee shortly after we were evicted from our home in Cambridge. They diagnosed her with Alzheimer's disease, and I'm sitting over here in a shitty part of town, paying an ungodly rent to live with mice and cockroaches.........

You tell me now~~ how righteously you were exonerated in court.......
Your family should know everything, don't you agree.......

I'll leave it at that, and I'll leave you unto heaven.........
Bye-Bye


Douglas

Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Response to RIPOFF Vinnie Nelson-- He signed affadavits of guilt; judge didn't want to do his job

#5Author 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

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