Heart breaking

My heart got torn out and thrown across the street yesterday. I got a call from a friend who is a construction assistant who has been working on the most amazing house! It is small, but each room is a different color and Christina has done an amazing job on the tile. This home owner has been ripped off twice by contractors and Project Homecoming is picking up the rest, with the rest of her money. Turns out that this house is 10,000 dollars short to finishing. The previous two contractors didn't even acquire permits to rebuild this house and put up the walls before even checking with an electrician and plumber if all was good. So not only do we need to come up with ten grand, but we have to tare apart the walls to get to the electrical, and plumbing, and repaint and all this crap.

Personally I'm just as disappointed in Project Homecoming for not checking on the permits first. Assuming that someone who ran off with the money doing a crappy partial job went through proper channels seems a little reckless to me too! And now we have another woman who can't get into her home. And except for electrical and plumbing, she was getting so close. Christina thought we could finish the house in the month, but now we have a huge set back. I know and understand Christina's frustration, but I can't help be frustrated in the system that I work for. It doesn't seem right to have spent the money done all this work to tare it down and practically start over. It just doesn't seem like we are being good stewards of the resources that our clients have.

We have another home owner who is moving into her house at the end of this week, and now is having problems with the bank. The bank is claiming that she had a balloon mortgage, when she knows she had a 30 year fixed. On top of that she Paid off the house already! So now she is having issues there, and there is potential for her to lose her home. This woman spent 3 days with kids/grand kids on her roof after the storm, and the 2nd contractor she hired took her last bit of savings and ran. Leaving her with no money at all! It is hart breaking to hear these stories in the first place, but to know these people, and not be able to look them in the eye and say it is going to be okay...That is the hardest for me. These people have tremendous faith, even through all the bullshit they have been through, but it really feels like this government/banks/wealthy people are trying to brow beat down their spirit and it hurts like hell!