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Hi all,<BR>
I would like to clarify a few items of Mr. Nasser's post, so you can have both sides in order to base your responses.<BR>
1. Mr. Nasser is not a homeowner, nor is he the Contractor of record on the project. The commercial project is a 17 unit office building in which he is the superintendent. <BR>
2. Mr. Nasser neglected to inform you that (we) went through a mediation, in his office, with a mediator he picked and in which the mediator found in favor of my company. I can certainly prove this documented fact. When his mediator made the ruling, Mr. Nasser refused to pay him (or me) and threw us out of his office, thereby breaching our contract. Mr. Nasser has refused to pay his share of the mediator fees. To date, the mediator has not been paid by Mr. Nasser.<BR>
3. Mr. Nasser <U>was then given an AIA schedule of values G703</U>, which documents the actual progress on the job to date, and was given the choice to pay me what I was owed (to date) and I would sign a release, dispute the amount again through court arbitration, or accept the settlement proposed by the mediator and move on.<BR>
4. Mr. Nasser opted to state that he would (instead) fire me, refused to pay what I am owed to date and locked my equipment (job box, tools, etc) from me.( It is still there, despite my requests to release it.) I discovered he had brought OTHER electrical contractors onto the jobsite permitted under my name, so I kept a hold on my permit to stop the work by others and protect myself. He refuses to allow me on the property to get a city inspection on my work to date and document the condition of the jobsite I am leaving.<BR>
5. I informed the City attorney of our pending litigation and my permit was put on hold until the civil courts decided the matter. <BR>
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In closing, IMHO, this is all about Mr. Nasser's avid desire to cheat honest contractors out of money, nothing else.<BR>
I invite any person reading this to answer this question any differently than I did:<BR>
Would you bid a project based on the plans given you by the contractor, state clearly in your contract that the only work included in the bid is that work shown on the plans attached to the contract, AND THEN GIVE OVER 80 additional openings for free, when you stated in writing to the contractor that more items were needed than were shown on the plans, but he refused amend the bid set OR prove that the competing bids included these items ?<BR>
If you still feel Mr. Nasser is a inexperienced victim, check out the <U>pages</U> of legal actions, lien contests, etc. listed in Orange county public records. It's too bad everyone doesn't see them prior to dealing with him......<BR>
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