The Backyard Collaborative, Inc.

The practice name was changed because ownership changed. Mr.[redacted] has been practicing since 1988. Prior to commencing work we advise theClient that the property they owned flooded and an investment of $500k in thisneighborhood of $100k houses was not advisable. The Client ignored ourprofessional...

advice. Throughout the design process the Client made numerouschanges to the design necessitating multiple designs.  Five concepts designs were drawn by hand andthen 2 entered into the computer and presented-exceeding the agreed to scope ofservice of three in the contract. We attended permitting hearings with theconservation board and board of health on the behalf of the Clients behalf andobtained to approval to build. During each design meeting the Client pressed us to expandand embellish the proposed home despite recommendations that the project waswell over the stated budget of 500K. Knowing that the 6000 gsf home with 10bedrooms was beyond the stated budget, at our own expense we prepared a costestimate. We recommended that they seek other cost estimates from professionalcontractors and never heard from them again. It was our understanding that the Clients recognized that wehad performed additional services with the additional designs, the hearings andmeetings we attended at the town and the cost estimate we prepared. Werequested to be compensated for the additional services and received approval.We billed for those services according to the agreement.  We later found out that their practice was to pay forservices 90+ days from invoice and concluded that they would pay us. Weattempted to contact the Client multiple times to establish that we would becompensated via email and phone to no avail. The outstanding balance of $1100went unpaid. We received a court judgment for the outstanding balance. TheClient made 3 motions to have the judgment overturned and each request wasdenied.To date despite court order the Client still has not paidtheir bill.