Kathleen M. Smith, Executive Director
Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing
Maryland Home Improvement Commission
500 North Calvert Street, Room 306
Baltimore, MD 21202-3651
Dear Ms Smith:
As you know, we've met on several occasions discussing the impotency of the Maryland Home Improvement Commission {MHIC}. After conferring with industry experts and legal scholars we've developed an idea to make lots of money. It's quite evident that becoming a Maryland home improvement contractor is a surefire way to make easy money.
Our "Modest Proposal" goes like this: We will take 1/3 cash deposits {or maximum allowable by law} to begin work, unskilled labor will perform demolition and substandard workmanship. After a few days we will abandon the job with substantial work left incomplete. We will then file a mechanics lien {albeit false, but the courts don't care and neither does the Attorney General}; just like Genesis Group, MHIC lic#05-121925 does. We will keep all excess monies paid; stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from innocent homeowners over the course of the next few months/years.
We know that we can do this with impunity - as your office, the state of Maryland and the Attorney General have told us so. The state of Maryland is impotent in enforcing any punishment. As long as we sue the homeowner for a mechanics lien - the state of Maryland and the MHIC are powerless to touch us or any of our franchisees. We know that other contractors have done this successfully {Genesis Group MHIC #05-121925} and received NO punishment, why shouldn't our franchisee's cash in too?
We look forward to your office telling all the home owners, "We're sorry Mr. Homeowner, we can't touch those contractors as they have sued you for non-payment and a mechanics lien." We know that our franchisee's can drag these innocent homeowners through the courts for years, forcing them to spend tens of thousands of dollars defending bogus claims OR they can yield to our patented extortion scheme and pay off the contractors to drop their false claims.
Of course our franchisee's we will drop their claim, ONLY if the owner signs a complete release agreeing not to file any counter claim or MHIC complaint. Meanwhile, we'll be getting rich on the backs of innocent homeowners while MHIC and the Attorney General stand idly by doing nothing.
We will be franchising our system to all Maryland Contractors; it will be called "We upped our income - UP YOURS®"
Please give us your thoughts on the subject.
Sincerely,
Franchisor
CC: Governor, Martin O'Malley, 100 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925
Tom Perez, Secretary Dept. of Labor, Lic. and Reg. 500 North Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202-3651
Sen., Ed Kasemeyer, James Senate Ofc Bldg, Rm 301, 110 College Ave., Annapolis, MD 21401 - 1991
(410) 841-3653
Sen, Alan Kittleman, James Senate Ofc Bldg, Rm 414, 110 College Ave., Annapolis, MD 21401 - 199
(410) 841-3671
Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General and Laura Gansler, 7011 Darby Road, Bethesda, MD 20817-2911
Joel Jacobson, Asst. Atty. Gen, Consmr. Protc. Div. 200 St. Paul Plc, 16th Flr Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 576-6300
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