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After Hurricane Irma hit, the Boczers required function completed to their family members apartment. But finding it all finished turned into a distinctive form of storm.
How it occurred
Sister Amy and Karyn, and their father, Invoice, hired Divine Design and style and Flooring Masking in Naples for the occupation. They contracted for flooring and other beauty updates, totaling all around $7,500. But what should have taken a thirty day period dragged on for eight months, the family members claims.
“It’s hardly ever his fault. He usually had some type of excuse from heading by means of a negative divorce he was in a automobile incident his dog desired surgical procedures. I suggest, we heard just about every justification from this guy,” Amy claimed.
And the dude Amy is referring to?
“A contractor named Chris Divine – or at minimum that was the title I was led to believe that,” Amy claimed.
But Chris’s final title is basically Pascale, and he owns Bonita Springs Flooring Masking, a enterprise WINK investigated right after clients complained about do the job not acquiring done. We matched the names employing the state’s business registration web-site, Sunbiz. The Boczers also recognized him in a prior mugshot.
In 2018, Pascale was arrested for contracting without having a license, but courtroom documents exhibit the situation was dropped.
The Section of Business and Expert Regulation, the state’s licensing board, investigated Pascale for functioning without having a license and fined him countless numbers. The condition said Pascale in no way paid out people fines.
The lawyer basic investigated Bonita Springs Flooring Covering for not completing get the job done, achieving a deal very last yr. Pascale agreed not to just take deposits if he couldn’t do a occupation and to fork out buyers again additional than $30,000. The Attorney General’s place of work claimed they’re “pursuing enforcement of the phrases included in the offer.”
But the Boczers did not know any of this since they searched on the web for Chris Divine.
“Chris is a quite proficient liar. He’s hardly ever excellent at the actual get the job done,” Amy stated.
The Problems
Pics presented to WINK by the family display the pricey workmanship. Floor molding that does not match up, cupboards hung wrong.
“He (Pascale) would literally look at me, but doesn’t it appear wonderful? Does not it search terrific? And I would say no. I am not content,” Amy explained.
Boczer said to support make peace, Pascale available to throw in a kitchen backsplash.
“They were all jagged. There was no spacing to place grout. Then, within 24 hrs, the tiles basically started out to peel off the wall, Amy explained.
The floor, they imagined, was the only factor completed proper till the manufacturer’s representative stopped by.
“They came out, and the life time guarantee is voided due to the fact of installer mistake and set up,” Amy stated.
The Boczers employed a law firm and went soon after Pascale for damages, stating his do the job price tag them thousands to suitable. They settled, and the Boczer’s signed a gag-order. But immediately after some of Pascale’s payments bounced, they spoke up, publishing flyers and contacting us to make absolutely sure it does not occur once more to anybody else.
“I hope just to get his name out his face out there,” Amy mentioned.
Condition records now checklist Divine Style and Floor Covering as inactive, but Bonita Springs Flooring Covering as active.
Pascale’s Reaction
WINK reached out to Pascale about the Boczer’s problems. Pascale advised us Amy Boczer was by no means a customer and that her accusations are false.
WINK received the signed Boczer settlement with what seems to be Chris’s signature on the bottom. The signature appears to be like very similar to what is signed on the Legal professional General’s arrangement. WINK also obtained their contract with Divine Layout, a cashed test by Divine Design and style, and email messages with Chris’ 1st identify. Condition documents also display Chris Pascale as the company’s president.
