From Cee'S K.
All Elite Construction LLC
My house caught fire in April of 2021, and that night I was in an extended stay hotel with my two dogs. From there, we relocated to an apartment. I have to relocate for a third time because Monseh Blanks of All Elite Construction LLC in Charlotte, N.C., walked away with $37,000 of the money to start rebuilding my house. Our contract said that the first draft was to buy the roof, HVAC, electrical, and the plumbing. I hired him in October 2021 and fired him in November 2021 and he walked away with $37,000 without doing any work at all.
I found All Elite on Thumbtack, and it had five-star reviews and no bad reviews on BBB or YELP. Monseh Blanks has a lot of nice pictures of all the work he has done. Not long after I gave him the check, his attitude changed, and he stopped communicating with me. He finally called me back to tell me he had gotten my shingles. I asked him how did he know what color or type I had wanted, and he said,
"You want to pick out your shingles?
He told me that I didn't have to be there when he was working on my house and that most people leave and don't come back until he's finished.
He wanted to replace the knotty pine, custom-built hardwood kitchen cabinets with cabinets in the back of HomeDepot. He said his HVAC man was going to build my HVAC system. I had Rheems. Then he sent me an email saying that my insurance company told him not to listen to me and my outrageous upgrade.
He went on in the email to berate me for being a difficult client and that he would allow me to pick out the color shingles I wanted, but everything else would be up to him and my insurance company. I learned that I was his first biggest job and his first insurance job.
(I believe he lost his mind when he got that amount of money and now he has no intention of making things right by giving it back.)
I told him this was not working out and, let's call it, quits before any work got done. I didn't trust him, and I went by my house, and sure enough, he was up on my roof tearing off shingles. When I asked him to come down, he refused. I told him I no longer wanted him working on my house, and he ignored me.
I texted and emailed him that he was fired. I asked him to return the money I had given him to buy the building materials. I went to court to get a stop order. The judge told me if he came back to the house to call the police.
He came back, and I called the police.
Monseh Blanks of All Elite Construction never gave back the money. He took all of it and emailed a receipt charging $31,000 for fees and subcontractor fees. They did no work in the house at all. He never bought any materials, no Roof, no HVAC, no Electrical, no Plumbing. He walked away with $37,000 as if he earned it.
To add insult to injury, he left a rented Porta-Potty and all the shingles and building material he scraped off the roof all over the front lawn. It is still there right now, in March of 2022.
I went to every agency I could think of and those recommended. I filed complaints at N.C. Contractors Board, the Attorney General's Office, the Local District Attorney's Office, Consumer Protection Agency, the Bank, the Contractor Recovery Fund or Homeowner's Recovery Fund, the local Councilman, and the Mayor's office. No one could help me.
I called the Porta-Potty company several times, and they ignored me. I called 311 for help with the Porta-Potty and building material, and they couldn't help me.
Now, I'm calling out for help on Social Media because I don't know what else to do. The trauma of the fire was rough, but I can't find the words to describe how it feels dealing with a bad contractor. Please tell Monseh Blanks to give back the money.
UPDATE:
Mar 10 2022
My family finally got the company to remove the Porta-Potty that Blanks left there after I asked him several times to take it off of my property. It was there from November 2021. What kind of person does this let alone a contractor?
Below is more pictures of the house and the building trash from the roof patch that Blanks charge me $31,000 but walked away with $37,000. Who does this to a 65-year-old woman whose house burned down? I lost everything in the house and now Monseh Blanks owner of All Elite Construction LLC has taken the money to start rebuilding the house.
