FAIR OAKS, Calif. — Earlier this week on ABC10, a homeowner called out Fair Oaks-based Anchored Tiny Homes for failing to finish building an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) in her backyard, pocketing more than $100,000.
Now, more people are coming forward with similar complaints.
David Welsh and his son Kyle King own and operate David's Plumbing Inc. They say they were hired to do plumbing work for two projects by ATH.
"We actually financed the entire project that we were contracted for material and labor, and then we were supposed to be paid immediately," said King.
However, the duo never got paid. Unpaid invoices show ATH owes David's Plumbing more than $10,500.
"It was a huge hit. My dad makes sure that I get paid for the work that I do, but he's the owner of the company so if he doesn't get paid, he takes that as a loss and it's a direct loss because we had to cover the material as well as my labor," said King.
John Weinheimer knows something about not getting paid as he worked quality control for Anchored Tiny Homes.
"Just this week, we got an email directly that said 'we can't pay you next week. We're gonna pay you your next check,'" he recalled.
As an employee for the last eight months, Weinheimer says he started to see red flags a few months ago.
"I just started hearing things like, 'Hey, they're late in paying,' They're late in paying and they can't pay me and I'm not gonna come do the next job if they can't pay me for the one I did two months ago," said Weinheimer.
Those jobs were at people's homes. A group of homeowners showed up to speak with ABC10 Friday and told us they paid ATH for their projects ranging from $29,000 to $266,000.
"We'll do everything in our power to make it right and I just want to say I'm sorry to everybody affected by this. This was not the intention of anything we set out to do. It was the intention to grow a business and we just got out under our skis a little bit," he told ABC10 Tuesday.
Since then, Paulhus has been unresponsive. We tried tracking him down at the office in Fair Oaks Friday. No one was there, just a dark office with the company's core values, including integrity and accountability.
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