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Initial Complaint
04/30/2024
- Complaint Type:
- Product Issues
- Status:
- Unanswered
On May 24,2024, I signed a contract with Freigtag Construction LLC, for a home improvement job. The owner, Eric Freigtag took $1,100 in cash from me as initial down payment. Early that next morning on 4/25, I sent a text to Eric, asking that he call me please, that I had a couple of questions for him, to which he then replied via text, ”If there’s going to be issues, and going back and forth, we can cancel this job now and I will return your money.” This being the second time he’d threatened to “cancel the job” BEFORE any services were even rendered. After much thought and deliberation, red flags galore, I told him that I thought it best that we DO cancel the job and to please return my money, minus $100 that he could keep for his time in coming out to give the estimate. I’m an elderly disabled woman with significant heart and health issues and he was causing MUCH undue stress. He then told me that he was charging me $250 for having to reschedule another job, $150 for his time so in other words, he was keeping $400 of the $1,100 if paid him just the day before. NJ has a law stating that a homeowner can cancel a contract within 3 days of signing, and every cent of their deposit MUST be returned immediately without question. It’s called the “cooling off period” and it put in place to protect consumers in NJ from shady businesses such as his. It can be found on #29 of the New Jersey Contractors Registration Act. I showed him this exact rule and he still refused to refund my monies owed. I had offered to allow him to keep the $100 for his time, that was declined. I then offered to allow him to keep $250 instead and return my $850 and he declined that as well. Later the same day, he ran up on my porch, dropped an envelope containing $700 and sped off quickly. I’ve given him every opportunity under the sun to do the right thing and just return my money, but yet he still refuses. He stole $400 from an elderly, unwell woman on disability and I want my money back. RIPOFF!!
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Customer Complaints Summary
1 total complaints in the last 3 years.
1 complaints closed in the last 12 months.