Mark Weigel General Contractin

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• By Jennifer K.

  April 18, 2022

  Build a new home

  This is a public service review. When we considered hiring Mark Weigel, there were no reviews to guide us. Our greatest pain, as victims of Weigel, is believing that this man is still targeting innocent victims for financial and personal harm while hurting the community by building shoddy structures. He contracted with us to build an ICF home per architectural plans that he helped us design for the fixed price he set. Once we were under contract, he delayed for months before finally starting, putting other projects he contracted for after ours in front of ours. When work began, he didn’t have enough workers, the workers he did have to build the walls were children (literally!), he refused to follow the agreed-upon plans, and made demands for more money. Ultimately, he refused to build the house unless we let him build the house contrary to the plans, while “cutting every corner possible,” in order to do what he deemed “more practical”; we didn’t. It ended up in court. The judge, who had a contracting background, determined that Weigel’s work was so substandard it could not be repaired—it had to be demolished—and we were awarded demolition costs. The judge determined that the only thing of value after work stopped was the UNUSED materials left on site at the time construction was halted; anything Weigel touched was worthless. Thus, Weigel consumed three years of our lives with his deceit, greed, and incompetence, such that we must start all over again. Please don’t let yourself be a victim. More details follow, but if you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Considering hiring him or anyone affiliated with him? In light of our experience, this is how it may go: Note that statements within quotes are from written documentation, either text records, depositions, pleadings, briefs, or other sources of evidence from our case. If you are new to town and don’t know anyone, he may especially target you. He may lay on a thick show of being sold out for Jesus, talk about Answers in Genesis and Christian ministry while wearing God’s name on his cap, license plate, and wherever else to gain your trust. He may promise you that due to his years of experience he will build you an “excellent”—a “beautiful” (think lipstick on a pig)—home for less than others, because he already has his own equipment and he’s made his money and is near retirement and just wants to “help a believer out.” He may act like your friend to get you to divulge your budget, then overpromise what he will deliver within that price, while undercutting legitimate contractors who honestly priced the project. Delays are his mode of operation. He might overcommit to projects to get other customers locked into contracts, then string you along with one promise after another that your project will be his “top priority… will start next week… in two weeks… after Ben Torkelson gets back from (another!) vacation…” Don’t believe it. He admitted under oath his philosophy and practice that “no construction gets done on time.” Once the work starts, he may dwell on how expensive the job is (the job he supposedly bid out with subcontractors before agreeing to the fixed price contract) and how you are going to need to cut things back to make it affordable, all while pressuring you for more money. He may promise “first-class workmanship” in his contract, only to send young children (as many as five of them, ranging in age from 8 to 13 years old!) as his primary laborers to build your ICF walls. When you tell him that you “don’t want children building your home,” he might reply: “I understand your concern… But in Ben's defense he has trained his children well. For example his eight-year-old son David shot grade for me with the transit one day and did a better job than most of my employees. Just saying” Then, he just might send more children to build your house than before! Under oath, he will explain that, “In his professional opinion, the ICF walls are the easy part of the job, with more skilled labor being needed later.” So, kids are cool, of course! His education doesn’t exceed high school, yet he will likely dismiss your architect and structural engineer as knowing less than him; saying that their plans are merely “suggestions.” He may then unilaterally “cut every corner possible” and “try to change the blueprints to something more practical”, as he admitted under oath and without approval to do so, even if approval is required by the contract. He might also use second-hand materials as finishes to save (himself) money on that fixed price contract, as he testified that he planned to do on ours under oath. When you say you just want the contract and plans followed, he may launch an all-out assault on you to subcontractors and anyone else involved in the build--though you were “buddies” prior--to get you removed from the job site. ... If you'd like to know the rest of the story, write to the email above. Ephesians 5:11-12

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