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We’re trying to finish our job with the GC from Hell. STAY AWAY from Haim Farage, Handy Home Improvements. We are hiring a troubleshooter kindly referred through this Forum (which we should have done earlier). Hopefuly the Project Manager can straighten everything out. But I have to share the latest. We noticed that work starts and stops, starts and stops. I came home from work early about 3 weeks ago and got to know the latest workers — two very pleasant, talented men from the Carribean. In about the second week they confided that Haim hadn’t paid them. On Friday they told us he owed them $1,500 apiece. Although Haim is behind schedule we paid him on Sunday with the express instructions to “pay your guys.” So what does Haim do? He accuses them of stealing his tools (he told the poor guys that there was a camera in my computer which filmed them) and fired them (without paying them ) and screamed “don’t talk to my customers.” The guys tell me that Haim hired a painter who worked for 6 days, didn’t pay him and won’t take the painters calls. Being in a Coop that gives you only 60 days to complete all work under ONE named GC we haven’t felt we had the luxury to fire Haim but we are confident the troubleshooter will help and hope to get through what should be our two last weeks. As far as getting the guys paid I’m for imposing the $150 per day, per apartment (we have two apartments) fine for exceeding the construction time limit (he is a month late), as stipulated in the contract, and using it to pay the guys.