Saskatoon homeowner Janice Braden Lies about the home being wreaked by the Contractor. See the Pictures below of her house before we started her project!

Braden tries to claim that I had agreed to fix her home in exchange for the total payout of the insurance of 20,000 dollars. And said I promise—full-out fabrication.

Janice Braden called our company to have us bid on an insurance claim for her ice damming. Braden told me over the phone that an electrician highly recommended us for the job. I made an appointment to see her. When I got to her home, Janice had a lot of her work going on, and she told me it had been like that for over two years. She was trying to do all the work herself without experience, which showed in her work.

 She had the kitchen cabinet torn off the wall and sitting on the floor, walls with no drywall, just Insulation between the old studs. Janice had ripped out her flooring in the kitchen and dining room and everything was everywhere. Janice Braden's home was in shambles. Janice had to point out the insurance claim to me due to the extensive work she was doing. My first thought was, holy crap, what am I getting myself into. Little did I know at the time! My question to Mrs. Braden was, how will you tie in the insurance with the work you are doing because we cannot finish our job with yours overlapping ours if we get the bid? 

Janice Braden said can you estimate mine as well and then finish it at the same time. I got back to Braden regarding my estimates. Both we're separate estimates.

Once the details were figured out, the company started on the insurance claim, and her portion we tied into the work.

The agreement was for progress payments for her share in her project, separate from the insurance claim. When it was time to collect her portion Janice had some excuse, and she was very slick in her wording and could progress the job further through her techniques. The company had many customers we were dealing with ice-damming, and Janice Braden was able to slip under the radar at a hectic time. Once I could catch up to her for payment, Janice Braden had more tricks up her sleeve. This lady was persuasive, and I have heard it all and thought I had seen it all, but she was incredibly charming and convincing of her reasons that she could not pay her portion. She gave me her story of being a single mom and the complex attributes that accompany it.

Janice Braden took full advantage of my kindness; I initially felt sorry for her. During a conversation well into the project, I told her I couldn't promise her anything, but I would go back and discuss this further with my boss, and maybe could look at some arrangements and maybe we could do some work for the company's gallery since the company was new. It took time to figure it out, but at the end of the day, we decided not to go forward with any plans to help her because Janice Braden was not honest or upfront with me or the company from the start, when we figured out that Janice Braden did not have the money to pay for the work needed for her share.

In a roundabout way, Janice Braden said she would not release the insurance money if we did not do the upgrades she wanted. Janice also went so far as to flaunt herself with low, low-cut shirts to persuade me to give in to her plan to have work done for free. When this did not work for her, she turned to CBC News and dragged others into trying to discredit the company and me while she made up an elaborate story. Braden and CBC Newes also staged her home to make it look like our tools, paint cans, etcetera, but all this stuff came from Braden's basement. 

While working at her home, Janice Braden tried to tape conversations with me by leaving her cell phone on the kitchen counter and listening in on my staff and me while working at her house. We did not fall for her pathetic tricks, even if she was as polite as she could be to try to sway me.