The Kitchen Cabinets Went In Damaged and the Crew Never Came Back, the State Said. Florida Ordered $9,000 Paid to the Homeowner.

In February 2013, a homeowner in Cooper City signed a $16,000 contract with a remodeling company to redo two bathrooms and do some remodel work in the kitchen. The company accepted $12,000 of it.

According to the state’s complaint, the company installed kitchen cabinets that were damaged and did not complete the job. The homeowner and the contractor then agreed the cabinets would be replaced and one of the bathrooms finished. The complaint says the contractor never came back to do either, and none of the $12,000 was returned.

Three years later the state’s contractor board approved $9,000 for the homeowner from the Florida Homeowners’ Construction Recovery Fund, Claim No. 2015-051041. The fund measures that kind of loss against what another builder would charge to complete the same scope, and pricing and finishing what was left is a general contractor’s job.