JDS Innovative Home Concepts reviews and complaints

Today, 10/8/08, is the first day I discovered this web site. Joe, you are wrong again; I did not write these complaints - I am not the only one who you ripped off.
But since you mentioned my name, anyone who would like to contact me @ gabriella108@aol.com
re: how Joseph Santarelli defrauded us, took our money that was supposed to be paid to subcontractors & supplies and then left the job/house incomplete, please do so. He broke his own contract with us back in 2005; the job was supposed to be done in 9 months, way before this terrible housing crisis. How is it he was still able to build his $1, 000, 000 home at the same time in 2005 while he was collecting our money? His house got finished even tho it was started after our first payment to him? He walked off the job of our house after he drained as much money from us as he could, against HIS Payment Schedule. He claims we wanted things for free. HA! I have the change orders & check receipts to prove that we not only paid for "upgrades" (as he wanted to use junk)
but we never even rec'd the items after we paid him for them. Whoever wrote the other complaints against Joseph Santarelli, is absolutely correct. He is a con artist who is not to be trusted. We learned the
hard way. I am writing this to protect other people from being ripped off. New Jersey is lucky to be rid of him; people of Texas, beware. We intend to file legal actions against Mr. Santarelli as soon as all our receipts are in order; according to our lawyer, he is responsible for all expenses we had to incur for "double payment" of labor & supplies, as well as any expenses caused by his not completing our job in 2005, that includes, storage fees, legal fees, etc. He wiped out our pension fund while living the high life in a million dollar home & multiple "fun vehicles". Sometimes it's good to see that "what goes around, comes around".
Check the BBB and your state Attorney General before
dealing w/ Mr. Santarelli. We had no idea he had
3 bankruptcys; wish we did; unfortunately we got burned by his third.

Yes your right, Joseph Santarelli owner of Santarelli Construction, LLC had to close there doors after 21 years of outstanding service to a small area of South Jersey. Yes I was a victom of this housing crash, I'm sorry I couldn't escape what destroyed my company, took everything I had worked for over 20 years. I'm sorry that people around me were effected, but for 21 years I fed pleanty of peoples families, provided excellent service to my community. Yes its true I couldn't finish a few projects to completion. But did I steal money? No! Did the IRS perform a in depth investigation that Gaye Stanford triggered cause she lied that I had stole people's money? Yes they did, and I was cleared for doing nothing wrong with company funds, I did what I could to prevent this unwelcome disaster.

Gaye,
you should be ashamed of yourself, assuming fake names just to accuse me of untrue things that were out of my control, if your not lying why not say who you are, call me if you want the real truth, I have full and complete documents to prove what I am saying, do you?

Joseph Santarelli, Proud Builder and achiever!
[protected]

Google Joseph Santarelli and Santarelli Construction to see
the MANY complaints against him

UPDATE JUNE 2012 - BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE! This lying defrauding ### creates new aliases or alter egos all the time. Here are only a few of them, but they are all the same lazy lying waste of flesh out trying to part new victims from their hard-earned cash: Santarelli Luxury Homes, Santarelli Construction, JDS Innovative Home Concepts, Joseph Santarelli Home Builders, www.js-builders.com, www.josephsantarellihomebuilders.com. -These are only a few of the various entity names he hides behind to avoid any liability, along with having no findable assets and living in his live-in girlfriend's house so as to have nothing his ripped off clients can get to... changes cars more often than most people change clothing, has no business/ office address, no real employees, no long-standing relationships w any contractors (he chronically doesn't pay subs/ contractors - keeps "fouling his nest", so he keeps having to find new ones) even tho his online descriptions of his "business" his self-description makes him sound like some big sophisticated multinational business - HA! What a joke. All entirely misleading. DON'T BE FOOLED. Odds are REALLY HIGH that: if he's talking, he's lying, all the while stripping away your last dime behind your back.

I am having the same experienced described above. "JDS" is just one guy operating as an LLC. Google Joseph Santarelli and Joseph Santarelli Luxury Homes for a preview of what to expect. He says all the right things and starts off strong. But disintegrates into showing true colors: lazy, no accountability, sends unsupervised laborers to home, accepts no responsibility for damage and theft by subs and their laborers, chronic project "mistakes" and non-conforming work and materials due to sloppy disorganization (prides himself on making decisions "on the fly"), feels free to ignore homeowner input and make unauthorized changes, modifications, installations, promises corrections but never follows through, does not comply with requirements of Texas law requiring that all amounts advanced for project expenses be maintained in a separate trust account and used exclusively for project expenses, makes no notes, declines to consult specs provided by client, very poor follow-through on most things. Seems to sincerely believe all the hype he sells about himself, but once on the job it quickly becomes clear that he is nowhere near as knowledgeable as he claims and seems to believe - maybe no exposure to people who work with integrity and produce true quality. A common catchphrases "nobody will ever know the difference" (about proposed lower quality and substandard - aka cheaper - project elements). Promises "financial transparency" but almost impossible to get him to provide any actual receipts. Fails to pay laborers, or on or near completion squeezes them to accept less than initially agreed. Sends in contractors/ laborers without necessary tools and equipment. BTW - good luck if you ever have to sue him. He has no real assets, nor does the LLC. In fact, he doesn't even own any tools or equipment, relying instead on the guys he hires to come up with tools etc. Chronically vague and hard to pin down. Rarely gives a responsive answer to inquiries, much less a detailed one. List of problems is longer, but I'll stop here.