Adam Turem hired GLK Construction in 2022 to renovate a 100-year-old Tampa house, but the project stalled so completely that he eventually had to hire a private investigator just to track down the contractor. When he finally reached Jeremiah Klotz, it took a single phone call. By then, Turem had already won a court judgment against Klotz worth nearly $40,000.
Turem’s renovation sat idle for months, with a bonus room left under construction through two football seasons, according to Tampa Bay 28. He sued Klotz and won a judgment entered in March, one of several recent court awards against the contractor that the station reports totaled $50,000, $50,000, $82,000, $11,000, $136,000 and $39,000 across different cases. Turem told the outlet he experienced months without any activity on his renovation before finally deciding legal action was his only option.
A Pattern of Stalled Projects Across Tampa Bay
Turem was far from alone. Multiple GLK customers contacted Tampa Bay 28’s I-Team in 2024 to complain about problems with their projects, and the station says it has reported on a series of troubled GLK Construction jobs since then. Darren Kunz said a GLK project was meant to help his mother-in-law avoid moving into a nursing home, while Moses Harmon said his stalled project was supposed to be his man cave. David Crane told the station his unfinished project was meant to be his baby’s nursery — left incomplete before the baby arrived.
Local county officials reportedly halted work on the mother-in-law suite because GLK Construction failed to obtain a required inspection. The station’s report describes a pattern across these jobs of months of inactivity, failed inspections and cost overruns, and Better Business Bureau records show GLK Construction Company LLC carries an F rating after receiving seven consumer complaints and failing to respond to six of them.
Klotz Blames Cape Coral Foreclosure and a Hurricane
When Klotz finally sat down with the I-Team’s Adam Walser and Adam Turem at a Davis Islands park a week after that first phone call, he attributed the collapse of GLK Construction to a major apartment project in Cape Coral that went into foreclosure after work had already begun. Klotz said the contractor that hired him for that job failed to pay nearly $400,000 for completed work and building supplies, and told the station he was owed more than $400,000 total for labor and supplies on the project. He said the fallout left more than $300,000 on his own credit. The contractor that hired Klotz did not respond to an email seeking comment, per the station’s report…