Scottsdale male hires fake contractor for $150K reworking job

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3Tv/CBS 5) — When Jim Dornfeld ordered this Scottsdale dwelling previous yr, he experienced large designs for reworking it. “We preferred to get new flooring, new cupboards, new loos, and so on,” Jim advised 3 On Your Side as he confirmed us close to the residence.

So, when he employed a guy named Don Libby to fix a modest leak in the dwelling, Jim suggests Don Libby certain him he was accredited and could do a good deal much more than correct leaks. Libby reportedly claimed he could do Jim’s full reworking position. “He stated, ‘Hey, I can do that. I have the abilities and the contacts. Allow me aid you get this carried out,’” Jim suggests he remembers Libby declaring.

In accordance to Jim, he wound up choosing Libby, who instructed Jim to send money electronically to his spouse, not him. Jim says sending dollars to anyone else felt a tiny odd, but he agreed, and Jim forwarded near to $150,000 more than quite a few months. “Oh yea, we incredibly much reliable him at the beginning,” Jim explained.

Jim statements that for all that income, Libby provided about $70,000 in labor and substance above five months. On the other hand, Jim suggests the workmanship was shoddy, and Libby at some point stopped showing up.

So, Jim Googled Libby and up popped a 3 On Your Aspect report he could not believe. “Hi, I’m Gary Harper from 3 On Your Aspect,” Harper stated as he confronted Libby again in 2016. “You have a few of warrants out for your arrest.”

It turns out 3 On Your Aspect has confronted and aired various stories in the previous years about Libby, especially for having funds, executing subpar operate, and then disappearing with people’s cash.

At one particular time, he even landed on the Arizona Registrar of Contractors’ Most Needed List as a bogus contractor. “You appear to maintain ripping off people and having into problems,” Harper told Libby. “Uh, I have not been ripping off any person lately or something,” Libby replied at the time.

So, I tried using to catch up with Libby all over again by going to his household. I needed to converse to him with regards to Jim Dornfeld’s reworking occupation, but no a person answered.

However, Libby known as me back again declaring he works for an out-of-state transforming enterprise run by not his spouse but a woman out of Florida and that he’s her personnel in this article in Arizona. He went on to say Jim’s transforming job was likely great till his history came out. “Well, they located out about my earlier, and I consider they then introduced in some other folks (to transform). “I assume they imagined they were heading to just take me to the cleaners,” Libby explained.

The Registrar of Contractors confirms to 3 On Your Side they are investigating Libby when yet again. As for Jim, he says he simply cannot consider Libby is back to his aged tips and that he’s now a further one of his victims. “It tells me we have a authentic, flawed technique, and there wants to be some way that individuals like me can know about these people today.”

I’ll let you know what comes about in a comply with-up report. In advance of you at any time retain the services of a contractor, make confident they are licensed and respectable by checking with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. You can do that by likely to this backlink to check out them out at roc.pressure.com.

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