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Page 5of 6 WHEN WORK GOT DONE, CONTRACTORS WEREN'T Kromrey and his son sued the Jaweeds and won PAIDjudgments totaling more than $6,400, which have not yet been satisfied. Even when the Jaweeds fixed problems at their properties, they did not always pay, according to Roofing contractor Hugo Casas was new to the public records and interviews. They owe at least business and had no idea about the Jaweeds' $300,000 to companies that did work or provided reputation when he responded to a Craigslist ad to services for their properties. Of that total, $158,000 do work for their Brookhaven apartments in is due to CenterPoint Energy. Brooklyn Center last summer. Former manager Huber talked about difficulties The Burnsville man said in an interview with the getting supplies for repairs because of outstanding Pioneer Press that he was dumbfounded when city Jaweed accounts at stores such as Home Depot and employees told him he wasn't the first to get stiffed Menards. The Jaweeds took to using aliases to b y the Jaweeds. establish new accounts, Huber wrote in a June court affidavit.Roofing two 6,000-square-foot garages at the apartment complex was the biggest job his small "This would be in order to trick vendors into company, Hi-Tech Roofing, had landed in its first supplying services in spite of Hillcrest's unpaid year of existence. Ali persuaded Casas to reduce his bills," Huber wrote regarding the Forest Lake bid, and the pair agreed to $6,000 — barely enough apartment complex. "Vendors would sometimes get to cover paychecks for his crew, Casas said. suspicious and ask, 'This isn't those brothers, is it?' I would have to lie to them and tell them it was new When the job was over, Ali told Casas he'd get a management." check the next week. It never came. At first, Ali assured Casas the money would arrive, and then he A garbage hauler stopped picking up trash from the stopped taking the contractor's phone calls. Robinwood apartments in Robbinsdale in summer 2004 when he wasn't paid, according to Brian "Why do they do that?" Casas asked in an interview Ringham, a city housing inspector. Dumpsters at the with the Pioneer Press. "I want to do something — of four-building, 88-unit complex overflowed. course I want it to be legal. But everything costs so much. ... I couldn't believe people would do that to "There were flies and there were maggots," Ringham other people." said. "Then the sanitation guy refused to remove his equipment ... and a new contractor brought in his Minnetonka-based Dorglass Inc., which didn't get equipment and put it next to the other stuff. It got to paid more than $72,000 for window and door be a pile the size of a dump truck. The city ended up installation at properties in Fridley and Brooklyn having to pay to get rid of it." advertisement Tony Kromrey, a New Brighton contractor who had worked on and off for the Jaweeds over the past decade, listed in a court affidavit 30 contractors he personally knew who were owed money from the pair. Kromrey wrote in the affidavit that, on numerous occasions, he saw the Jaweeds lie to other contractors when they showed up in person to collect on unpaid bills. "The Jaweeds would look at them and say they didn't know who the owners were and would deny that they were the owners," Kromrey said. "It was like a bi ggame — I've never seen anything like it." htt://www.twincities.com/fdc?uniue=131842747276410/12/2011 ppq