My name is Doug
Varrieur and I put together this web page to warn people about
doing business with
Jason Crago Willyn Enterprise
LLC
Also Known
As
LOG HOMES
OF THE BLUE RIDGE
http://www.loghomesoftheblueridge.com/index.html
Located at 209 Gibbs Rd
Mooresville NC 28117 and who's phone number is 1-704-577-5405.
NC Contractor License # 59679
This web page and all the
information on this web page is based upon my own personal
experience with Jason Crago Willyn Enterprise
LLC
I hired Jason
Crago Willyn Enterprise LLC and entered into a turnkey building
contract in October 2010 to build a custom log cabin for me on
my property located in Waynesville NC. The Home I hired Jason to
build was an identical home to another one which I have on my
property. The existing home to be used as a model home for the
new home. The price of the home was set by Jason and we both
agreed in our contract on the turnkey building price and the
timeframe to completion. As the job progressed I found that
Jason Crago's building style is to "chase the draw money"
What he does is start a portion of the job, half completes it,
takes some draw money then moves onto another portion of the job
which he half completes, takes draw money and moves on again.
The end result are many areas of the home half finished which
then need to be completed. The problem with this building style
is the timing of other subcontractors who need to have areas of
the job complete before they can complete their tasks. It was a
constant battle with Jason to get uncompleted work completed and
over a year after entering into a contract with Jason Crago we
are still trying get the job complete.
Three quarters of
the way through the job it became obvious that Jason Crago had
spent all of his advance monies and draw monies that he had
received and he was broke. The only way for the job to continue
was for me to front him payroll money, supplier money and sub
contractor money.
Before I cut him
off from my checkbook he had exceeded his contract price by
close to $30,000. I announced to Jason Crago that the money had
come to an end, the checkbook was closed and he needed to get
the home completed from his own checkbook. Three hours later he
and 5 people had packed up 90% of his tools and abandoned the
job even though he knew we had tenants arriving at the home
within a week. The new tenants had to change all their
move plans at expense and inconvenience to them and as of the
day I prepared this web page 23 days after I cut Jason out of my
check book the job is still not complete and the tenants still
have not moved in. Jason sent two men back onto the job and they
have been chipping away as best they can, I've had to supply
them with many of my own tools and it's a constant battle for
these two men to get any money from Jason Crago for their labor.
$5,700.00 of
Jason Crago's overdraw came from the repair of the driveway. I
instructed Jason not to allow the 65,000 pound cement trucks
onto the driveway and to uses a pump truck to pump the footer
concrete up the hill. Jason ignored me and although he hired a
pump truck to pump the footer concrete he had both the pump
truck and 4 back to back cement trucks up the driveway at the
job site....the result was a 380 foot paved driveway was broken
up like a jigsaw puzzle and destroyed. Jason agreed in writing
to repair or replace the driveway but as of this day has refused
to pay me the $5,700.00 it cost to repave. I have added pictures
for you to look at below.
$4,400 of Jason
Crago's overdraw came from repairing his mistakes to stone work
and concrete work. A professional mason had to be brought in for
the repairs....DO NOT LET JASON do any stone work, from my
experience he has no idea what he's doing.
Jason Crago will
try to convince you that he can build your cabinets. Jason Crago
did a terrible job on my cabinets and I had to personally repair
his mistakes and finish building my own kitchen cabinets.
To build this
particular home we used Eastern White Pine trees from my
property. The trees were cut and milled here and a clause in our
contract clearly requires Jason Crago to clean up the mess
promptly. It has now been close to a year since the trees were
cut and Jason Crago not only hasn't cleaned up the mess, he
refuses to acknowledge responsibility for it maintaining a
position that it's on me.....of course it's not as you'll see
from this contract language;
5- Builder is additionally responsible for the cutting of
trees, milling of trees, delivery of trees to the kiln, and dry
kiln the materials to a low moisture content to prevent from
shrinkage. Any damage or mess which occurs from cutting, milling
and transporting the trees is the responsibility of the
contractor. This includes but is not limited to any damage or
mess caused to public or private property resulting from the
work and the falling of the trees. It is understood that trees
will fall onto Hemphill Rd during the cutting. The builder will
be responsible to make arrangements to control the traffic on
Hemphill Rd and comply with all county requirements when the
cutting process is commenced through completion. Builder will
indemnify purchaser from any actions resulting from this work.
Furthermore Builder will promptly make any repairs from damage
caused and to clean up any mess and debris resulting from the
cutting of trees. Builder has also notified the NC department of
transportation and has verbal agreement of the process of
cutting the trees and falling them into a state road.
Below I have
posted pictures of the remaining mess left by Jason Crago and
Willyn Enterprise. I have also received a bid from a reputable
land clearing company in excess of $5,000.00 to clean up the
mess. This $5,000.00 is over and above Jason Crago's $30,000
overdraw.
Halfway through
the job we discovered Jason Crago's workers comp insurance was
not in existence putting us at great risk
The shame of it
all is Jason could be a good builder if he understood his
limitations, found some good funding for his company, looked in
the mirror and recognized his dishonesty in his business
dealings, his lack of integrity and his refusal to take
responsibility for his contractual obligations. BUT until that
day comes beware for behind that smile you see on his face in
the banner above I found Jason Crago to have a sinister side
which has put me and my family in a terrible position.
Pictures of a destroyed 380 foot
drive way. Click on picture to show full size
