Report: #250168

Complaint Review: St. John's Building Contractors - Owner: Ronald John Basara And Agent: Jordan C West - Fort Myers Florida

5 Updates & Rebuttals

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- Vero Beach, Florida,

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St. John's Building Contractors - Owner: Ronald John Basara And Agent: Jordan C West

4122 Residence Dr #112 Fort Myers, 33901 Florida, U.S.A.

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239-560-5802

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St. John's Building Contractors - Owner: Ronald John Basara And Agent: Jordan C West Contracted to repair hurricane damaged home since February 2005 and paid 94% of contract and work has not been done - liens placed on home by sub-contractors Ripoff Fort Myers Florida

*UPDATE EX-employee responds: Correction: FM not Associated with this Company.

*UPDATE EX-employee responds: Jordan West Responce

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: False Information - Please Read

My family entered into a verbal agreement in November 2004 and a signed contract in February 2005 with St. Johns Building Contractors to repair our home. Our home was severely damaged in the back to back hurricanes in September 2004, (Frances & Jeanne). Our home is in Vero Beach, Florida. The contract was signed with Frank Mannella License #CCC1326568 and Ronald John Basara License #CCC1253886. To date, the contractor has been paid per contract 94% of the contract price plus monies demanded by the company that was not due to them or they would not move forward with the repairs. Threats were verbally made to us by the local Florida primary qualifying agent for the company, Jordan C West License #CCC1327797. Jordan stated that he was not threatening us and that he was only repeating the words on the current owner Ronald John Basara. Some work has been done on our home and the sub-contractors are now placing liens on our home for non-payment by St. Johns Building Contractors. The sub-contractors are calling my family and coming to our trailer in the back yard to request payment. We have paid the contractor for their services and show the sub-contractors the copies of our checks. The contractor is avoiding all contact with my family and will not address the issues or complete the repairs on our home. The contractor is now threatening that if we make waves, he will make sure that we never live in our house again. These verbal threats are being delivered verbally by Jordan C West via Ronald J Basara. These threats are due to one of sub-contractors finding out through research that Mr. Basara has opened a Paul Davis Restoration Franchise in Minnesota and has been calling that company for payment. My family has been fighting this battle for years and need help in coming to some type of resolution and getting back into our home. We have filed complaints with the State of Florida, Allstate Floridian Insurance Company, Better Business Bureaus, and pressed criminal charges with the Indian River County Sheriffs Department. Mr. Basara has also received letters from an attorney in Vero Beach, Florida and the company did not respond. Mr. Basara and Mr. West have destroyed the past 2 years of lives with this scam.

Thank you

Cynthia & David

Vero Beach, Florida

U.S.A.

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5 Updates & Rebuttals

Ron Basara

Coon Rapids,
Minnesota,
U.S.A.

False Information - Please Read

#2REBUTTAL Owner of company

Wed, February 27, 2008

My name is Ron Basara and I am the owner of St. Johns Building Contractors. Apparently the above allegations are being made against me personally. I would like to take a few moments to clarify some things. The information given by Cindy Liss and Jordan West is misleading and incorrect. I will admit that the Liss project was a difficult one and there was not enough money to do what needed to be done. I was not in control of the money and initial payments on this job as I had two other partners at the time. I want to make it very clear that I never at any time stole money from the Liss's. Their allegations are completely inaccurate. I would also like to point out that their remarks about reporting me to the State of Florida, the BBB, Allstate Insurance, the Sheriff, and an attorney have resulted in nothing, thus proving their lack of a viable case. In fact, my license is still current and in good standing with no complaints filed. Next, the information given by Jordan West is equally as false as that of the Liss's. Jordan did not lose his house as a result of me. In fact, Jordan was not even payrolled employee. Despite this fact, St. Johns Building Contractors went above and beyond in compensation for Jordan, including paying for the instruction, materials, testing and state registration for the license he is referring to. He is not owed the money he is claiming, and he knows that. This is a very unfortunate situation and I strongly advise that the Liss's and Jordan remove the statements they claim before this goes any further. Anyone else who would like to discuss this in further detail can feel free to contact me at the following email address: [email protected] Thank You, Ron Basara

Jordan West

Fort Myers,
Florida,
U.S.A.

Jordan West Responce

#3UPDATE EX-employee responds

Thu, January 31, 2008

To whome it may concern, I am an ex employee of Saint Johns Building and moved down in 2005 to work for them. I was not involved with David and Cindy's contract until about a year after it had been signed. Ron Basara is a con artist and had me working as his sales rep and manager while he was suposidly out of state. When hired by Ron everything seemed normal until my last few months of employment. I understand where David and Cindy are frusterated because they never really even saw Ron he had 3 different project managers on their job to make sure everything was moving along and collecting monies for him. The only problem with that is twords the completion of David and Cindy's job Ron kept all their money that was given to him, left the state and stoped paying me as well. Ron did this on numerous jobs and as soon as I realized what he was doing I immediatly left the company. Ron currently owes me tens of thousands of dollars and stoped paying me months before I left David and Cindy's project. He stated he would pay me next week this went on for a while until I realized I was not the only one not getting payed. After leaving St Johns I tried to contact David and Cindy however they were understanably upset because I was the person they had main contact with and had no idea where Ron spent their money. I hope he gets all he is entilted to as he did not even have the guts to tell me he was not going to pay me he just left the state and turned off all communication I had with him leaving David and Cindy in the dust. Due to this situation I have lost my house due to non-payment by Ron. ALSO, MY LICENSE HAS NEVER BEEN USED! SO IT IS IN NO WAY ATTATCHED TO DAVID AND CINDYS PROJECT OR ANY OTHER SAINT JOHNS PROJECT. I HAVE SPENT THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF GETTING MY LISCENSE AWAY FROM SAINT JOHNS. If David and Cindy would like to contact me they have all my information and I would be happy to help them in any way I can. Jordan West

Frank

Blaine,
Minnesota,
U.S.A.

Correction: FM not Associated with this Company.

#4UPDATE EX-employee responds

Mon, July 23, 2007

To whom it may concern: I had worked with Ron Basara at the time of the complaintant's original meeting with St. Johns Building Contractors. I have not worked with that company for years. I (Frank) nor the roofing company listed as License CCC 1326568 have received any money listed on this report. Ron owns St Johns Building Contractors and liability for any work done or lack thereof. Please refrain from currently associating me with this company and also from making false statements about contracts with my license (listed above) on them. Ron's license number is actually CBC1253886. Please address him directly with the issues. If I can help you in any way in your dispute, I believe you have access to my phone number. Please feel free to call me. I would appreciate you also letting people know: I was only involved in the initial meeting with you and your adjuster (which took place several years ago) and that I have had nothing to do with any disputes you may have had since then. Thank you and I hope you are able to resolve the issues and get them to correct any issues. If you need current contact info on them I believe I can find it. Sincerely, Frank

Frank

Blaine,
Minnesota,
U.S.A.