[URY914]

Seems like a contractor must have run off with your wife and your Porsche. I hate to generalize (as you do) but half of the problems that owners have with contractors, they bring on themselves. They over pay them, they don't have a signed agreement/contract, they don't have a schedule of values, they don't get referances, they don't ask for lien releases, they don't ask for a written schedule, the scope of work is not clear, the owner's wife is left to deal with the contrator, etc, etc, etc....

Buyer beware, you idiot!