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Hired Servicemasters in McKinney Texas for water mitigation, and they are overbilling me for packback and drycleaning.
I hired Brooks *** at *** St. in McKinney Texas for water mitigation. The water mitigation portion of our claim was finished in early December and I signed a document saying that I was satisfied. I was informed by my insurance company that I could hire whoever I wanted to move our items back in and have our home cleaned as well as cleaning the contents of our items and furniture. I asked Brooks to only move the furniture upstairs back in, and he charged $1084 for moving three bed frames and two twin and 1 full mattress into our home, only a few miles away from his location. He didn't break it out properly on his invoice that he cleaned the furniture, but after the fact states that he did clean the furniture and that's why the charges were over 1/3 of the cost that our insurance company supplied for movers to move, clean and reassemble all our belongings. It comes across as premeditated that he submitted this very high invoice for doing very little whenever I specifically asked him to only move the bedroom furniture (no dressers were brought) and that we were hiring our own cleaners to do contents and housecleaning!
To make matters worse, I asked Brooks to dryclean some clothing that his workers had piled into our master bathtub rather than boxed up. In addition, I said if there were any clothes that were on my daughters bedroom floor during the flood that he could dry clean those. He dry cleaned about $3200 worth of clothing according to his invoice, for amounts of clothing I firmly believe we do not even own. When I confronted Brooks about this and asked him to remedy the situation, he initially was nice about it and said he would do so. The next morning he called and he was somewhat rude about the fact that he needed to get paid for doing that work even though I did not authorize it and insisted that I did authorize it and that my initial signature for the water remediation portion of things as well as the demolition counted as authorization to do this additional work after the remodel is complete.When I confronted Brooks about this and asked him to remedy the situation, he initially was nice about it and said he would do so. The next morning he called and he was somewhat rude about the fact that he needed to get paid for doing that work even though I did not authorize it and insisted that I did authorize it and that my initial signature for the water remediation portion of things as well as the demolition counted as authorization to do this additional work after the remodel was complete. My insurance company specifically informed me that I did not have to use Servicemasters for these items, issued the second payment for packback and cleaning to me directly, and Brooks' broad interpretation of what is included as part of that authorization is deliberate and calculated. He added $6000 worth of charges that were not on the invoice initially and which our insurance company is working on with him and potentially us being nice enough to add as supplements to the claim. Even though our adjuster is working with him, he has still refused to reduce his out rages charges for stuff we didn't give him permission to do or charge for.
We do not wish for Servicemasters to work for or on our claim further, and are asking corporate to get involved with remedying this situation with your greedy franchise owner. We have gone above and beyond providing Servicemasters extra demolition work we did not have to (that other contractors wanted to complete and get paid on) only for them to take advantage of us by overcharging for the couple little items we allowed them to complete at the very end of the claim because we thought at this point they could be trusted since there hasn't been an issue with communication until now on what we were ok with being completed or not. It comes off as very intentional that now that we have near the end of this insurance claim they suddenly try to take all the monies Farmers provided us for cleaning and packback that we have chosen not to use Servicemasters for. Considering all the business we gave this company, it's really disappointing beyond belief that this is how he is treating us.
Late response due to COVID-19 pandemic.
*** initially hired our ServiceMaster franchise to perform Water Mitigation Services for her. Before the services could be started, a pack-out of the contents in the home needed to be done and moved off site to complete the water mitigation services. We advised that these services would be billed to her insurance company. *** agreed, but only wanted the contents in one room left alone, which we did not touch. It was also advised that the contents would be cleaned, that would include clothing and that they would be dry cleaned as well. She signed an authorization form for us to start and complete these services. Our Project Manager met with the adjuster for the claim and went over the estimates. Her insurance company made payments based on estimates that our company wrote for Water Mitigation (paid us directly)/Content Cleaning/Pack-Out and Pack-Back/Document Restoration/Reconstruction. We did not overcharge at all. We used the exact same software with the exact price list that her insurance company uses (Xactimate 28). After the Water Mitigation Services, Content Cleaning and Pack-Out were completed (which the estimates are based on the actual work that was performed by our company), our customer became aware that she would be able to manipulate the funds received from the insurance company and decided to become the General Contractor of the claim. She seen this as an opportunity to remodel/upgrade her house, not understanding that the funds she received for the Content Cleaning/Pack-Out were owed to our company for the services that we provided. She understood that the Pack-Back would be completed when the reconstruction was completed, and the funds would be owed to our company once the Pack-Back has been completed. She also attempted and possibly succeeded in manipulating/short-changing the funds that were owed to the Sub Contractors that she used for the Reconstruction Services, which some of them have advised that they were having issues getting paid for the services that they performed. Once *** started upgrading appliances and doing house remodels, she started to run out of money, and decided that she didn't want to pay all of the funds that were owed to our company for Content Cleaning/Pack-Out and Pack-Back. She instead used two guys to come pick up her cleaned contents from our climate-controlled warehouse. Everything that we billed the insurance company for was completed by our company except the Reconstruction services and the pack-back. It is not our fault that she is/was ignorant to the process of being a General Contractor. Also, the customer did not provide additional demolition work. We did what was necessary to complete the Water Mitigation Services based the guidelines we use (ANSI/IICRC-S500). After the issues with payments with the customer, we gave a huge discount to her. We only charged for the hours for the document restoration and did the cleaning for free to try and fix the situation with the customer and end the claim on our side. We would have only done the Water Mitigation Services if we would have known that this would the headache that it has become.