Woman loses more than $7K in bad home improvement deal

RIVES JUNCTION, Mich. (WLNS) — Several cellular phone calls have been made to 6 News about Aaron J. Austin failing to do the home repairs that he was compensated for.

1 lady mentioned his neglect expense her a great deal of cash and her wheelchair-bound mother to skip out on a specific working day.

“I just don’t comprehend what type of individual does this,” Jennifer Tice said. 

Jennifer Tice required to have a wheelchair ramp created onto her house in Rives-Junction so that her 62-calendar year-aged mother could check out and be at ease at her residence.

“I posted on a nearby Fb team looking for tips for builders placing it out there to see who was out there in the location,” Tice reported. 

So when she arrived across A & A Exteriors and noticed that the enterprise experienced an very affordable price, Tice jumped at the possibility. 

Tice said when the owner Aaron Austin requested for a down payment, she realized that items had been searching up.

“Everything appeared excellent. We weren’t also worried about giving him money down for the reason that each solitary builder required a proportion of it completed,” she reported. 

In accordance to Tice, Austin communicated well, experienced published up a deal, and reported he’d do the function, but when she gave him the $7,000 down payment, points commenced falling aside.

“He had his daughter and his daughter was unwell and he had to get her to the healthcare facility, he was ill and had to go to the clinic then the very very last issue he mentioned was that the transmission went out on his truck and which is what he was waiting around for. But by that position we kinda figured it wasn’t gonna occur,” Tice claimed. 

Not only are they out all of that money, but Tice also explained that Austin’s neglect induced her mom to miss out on a special working day.

“My mom was going to arrive up and check out her oldest grandchild graduate significant college and she was not in a position to occur,” Tice reported. 

Jennifer has recognized the reduction and now would like others to beware.

“He owes so much dollars to so several people today. We’re in no way gonna get that cash back again. It’s additional or a lot less attempting to halt him from carrying out it to other people today,” she stated.