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[quote=Anonymous]Ugh OP, I so sympathize. We signed a contract with a firm for kitchen remodel this past fall, and about 2 weeks later the firm just imploded - the supervisor quit, started calling us to warn about the owner and threatening to sue, and so on for several weeks. We eventually got out of it (and put the project on hold till spring), but realized what a nightmare a bad contractor can be.

Here's the thing, you probably can't get out of the contract without major money - you've already handed over 25% for what sounds like much less work than that, and if you have a standard contract there are provisions that provide compensation to the contractor if you try to pull the plug. I'd check that language and figure out if you have any wiggle room at all... we were horrified to realize we were stuck with our firm unless they bailed (which thankfully they eventually did.)

If you don't, you've got to make this work as best you can. I found Gardenweb's kitchen forum very useful in terms of advice when we were in our nightmare; the people who post tend to be reno experts either as homeowners or professionals, so between them all they've seen it all. There are state and county boards that you can go to in order to file a complaint - you might also try contacting them for advice. I'm still not sure what prompted our firm to just walk away and hand back our deposit before any real work had been done - maybe it was clear I was going to be watching every single inch of the reno work? - but I know I dodged a bullet. Good luck![/quote]

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