I'll do dig the cooler with the 2010 Lakemoorfest Potatoes out of the garage and "accidentally" forget them in his driveway.

It is very subtle...

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I'm fairly handy with a sledgehammer ...

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As an outsider, not knowing anything but your fairly detailed story, it seems to me.......


The neighbor is in on it.


What a coincidence that when your neighbor took you over to see the guy, he "wasn't home".
Which is weird because the story started with "Bob, my neighbor across the street, whom I trust completely.......knows a guy who owns his own paving company".

Sorry man.

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That being said, just say the word.

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I don't think the neighbor is in on it. You'd have to be a pretty ballsy dumbass to rip your neighbor off of $500.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Love that story!

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--yet I can't look away."

Don't EVER pay money up front to a guy you don't know. Ever,

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Well there are things like permits and material that will be needed and you really can't expect someone to foot the bill for that without getting a commitment from you in the form of a deposit.

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GO BEARS!!!

Right, but not for sealing a freaking driveway.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Agreed. Always wait until the job is finished. Right, Chas?

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Somewhat related, I follow a few groups on Facebook for McHenry county. I've seen a few posts lately that seem to follow the exact same script. Take a deposit, wait a few weeks, claim a death in the family then stop responding altogether.

I'm trying to remember if Lakemoor is McHenry or Lake? I have some contacts with McHenry County and can find out if they are dealing with an increase in these types of scams. Might even be something they are trying to curb. Don't know if that would even help.

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I thought this guy was paving driveways.

I'll see myself out.

It's half mchenry and half lake. I'm on the mchenry side.

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Wasn't sealing. It was paving a new drive.

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More cowbell.

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Yep. Eye for an eye in this case. Neighbor gets the same for conspiring with him.

I am intrigued by this. Do you drag him outside and show him all the broken windows- "How do you like that, motherfucker? That picture window if gonna cost you 4 stacks!" and then, when he is a sobbing, apologetic heap of despair, decapitate him? There is for sure some sense of closure in that for Darkside, I suppose.

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After leaving a somewhat tense voicemail again today, he called me back.
He said that what happened was that after the rainy season, he had to go to the hospital for a few weeks. He is a diabetic, and had an infection which led to them thinking that he had cancer in his kidneys (they still don't know for sure).
Anyway he says he will be here Wednesday.
I noticed that Wednesday is the first day with rain in the forecast.

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Good call.When he heard that that voice mail was properly conjugated, Im sure he almost shit that 500 right out.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Oh, he will be right out to your place to do the job. Just after another hospital visit for Lymes Diseases, liver failure and/or measles.

IF you are really ready to confront him, what I am done in the past is have someone else call for an estimate, set up a meeting and I get to be the surprise guest of honor.

I deal with this shit everyday, except I dont get shit prices of $1700 and agree to them. Of course if you have a driveway that is about 13 x50, then it is a fair price, assuming he is really repaving it and thus adding 2 inches of asphalt, if just recoating it, you get jobbed buddy.

So what you gonna do? Have the fake meeting? It's awkward, uncomfortable, you need to ask for equipment to keep, personally I almost look forward to them now. It's no longer an issue in my mind, just dirt scum bags who rip people off all the time.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

How often do they give you an asset as collateral?

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After the recent update Darko what you should have said is bring you 5 $100 bills Wednesday rain or shine and start the bidding process.

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That is quite awesome of you, but its the least you can do after all of that damage your kids did to his patio door.

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It was an attractive nuisance. My son was unable to appreciate the risk posed by that death trap.

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Give? never few times taken or get the money back. it's not exactly a "Sit down and lets work it out" type of working environment.

I would never give a guy I dont know cash. At the very least I know other jobs, builders or GC's projects he is working on and no guy wants his problems brought to another project.

And I have done this for a few years and can tell when a guy is a flake as well.

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Poor Adam Carolla can't catch a break. First his business parter in the podcast thing splits and sues him for half the podcasting biz.

Then some plucky patent pirate goes after Carolla for infringing some 1990's patent.

Now BigFan might have a copyright infringement suit against Carolla's new TV show:

Whoa that thing Ralphus. A kid was raped. I get it, but ya know.