Date
30 Jan 2020
30 Jan 2020
Categories
Local volunteers made a dream a reality for an 88-year old veteran.
Roosevelt Royals said roofing contractors stole thousands from him without completing a roof job.
Hurricanes Irma and Matthew made a bad roof job worse.Royals spent most of June with his family in Orlando.
He didn’t know an entire home renovation would be taking place. Flanked by family members and volunteers Royals stepped into his newly renovated home Saturday.
“I can’t put it into words,” said Royals. “I was so astonished when I walked in, I really wanted to cry.”
We first met Royals in early June. We conducted our interview on his front porch. It was the only place in the home where he felt cool.
“I’ll be here until the Lord comes,” he told us in June.
Royals said his home fell into disrepair because of shoddy work on his roof.
The Northeast Florida Builders Association heard about his story and volunteered to fix the roof at no cost.
The job cost about $6,000.
The builders association invested about 10 times that amount to renovate the inside and kept it a secret from Royals.
“They weren’t supposed to do nothing in here and I went inside there and looked — everything in there was new,” said Royals.
They fixed water-damaged ceilings and floors and leaky pipes, improved the air conditioning, painted the walls, brought in furniture, did some landscaping and help declutter the home.
Royal is asking himself if he’s dreaming.
”There’s got to be something wrong here somewhere and I get up and look and I say, ‘No it’s real,'” said Royals.
NEFBA wanted to help a victim of contractor fraud rebuild.
Its charity Builders Care, is out to right the wrongs of other contractors.
“He was a victim of contractor fraud, and to be able to step (in) and heal that wound, if you will, and more than that to help a veteran,” said NEFBA executive officer Bill Garrison.
The agency hopes to assist more victims of contractor fraud.
Caring Member
- MasterCraft Builder Group
- ICI Homes
- Providence Homes
- Beson4
- B&G Plumbing
- Breeze Homes
- Builders FirstSource
- Davidson Cares, Inc.
- Greg Matovina
- MasterCraft Builder Group
- Peggy Collins, Polished Properties-US
- The Landmark Foundation
- The Wood Development Company
- CorHomes
- Dostie Homes
- HW Contracting
- Ian MacDonald
- Keith Ward, Thomas May Construction
- MaryEllen Willis Trust
- McAneny Builders
- Miranda Contracting
- Nate Day, H. Smith, Inc.
- Tidewater Homes
- Ameris Bank
- Cole Slate, Slate Real Estate
- Sherry Davidson, Davidson Realty
- Dominion Engineering Group, Inc.
- Doug Wenzel
- Hart Resources
- Jodi Schoenfeld
- Larry Wittmer
- Anderson Restoration
- ARC Construction
- BCM Services, Inc.
- Construction Solutions & Supply
- Construction Specialists of North Florida
- Oxley Cabinet Warehouse
- Pro-Tile & Marble
- Sisler Johnston Interior Design
- Linda Lewis
- Mark Robert Hersey
- Sessions Development LLC
- Steve Madden, Synovus Bank
- Supreme Stucco
- Surfside Painting
- Tye Dye Gyes
- Whitco Insurance Agency, LLC
3 replies on “Veteran, victim of contractor fraud, gets newly renovated home”
I believe that cryptocurrencies do not have a solid base based on the fact that their value comes from speculative trading in the markets. Tami Leonard Saxen
Aw, this was an actually great blog post. In suggestion I want to put in composing such as this in addition? requiring time as well as actual initiative to make a very good write-up? but what can I state? I put things off alot as well as never seem to obtain something done. Jillie Alisander Bowie
fantastic points altogether, you just won a emblem new reader. What could you recommend in regards to your submit that you made a few days ago? Any certain? Van Merrick Lamphere