Veejai Ramdihall of Global Reno & Contracting in Richmond Hill, ON

Stole money, did not complete legally binding contract, a liar, shoddy construction, curses, throws temper tantrums

12th of Feb, 2012 by blazercomp

Do NOT even think of hiring Veejai Ramdihall (aka Veejai R. or Veejay Ramdihall or Vijay Ramdihall) of "Global Reno & Contracting" (aka GlobalReno & Contracting or Global Renovations and Contracting).

I met his sister and brother-in-law in summer 2011 to purchase an air hockey table. At the time in passing I mentioned I was looking for an honest and reliable contractor who could do home renovations and his sister recommended Veejai as she said he did high quality work but was trying to establish himself. I met with Veejai shortly thereafter when he helped carry the air hockey table into my home and he did seem a nice enough guy so I said I would call him when I was ready to proceed.

In early Oct 2011, I contacted Veejai and told him I was ready. He said he would send one of his workers "Dean" to my home to assess what needed to be done. This "Dean" fellow called me and said he'd swing by early that afternoon but he stood me up. Likewise, next day I heard nothing from "Dean", not even an apology for no-showing. This should have been a warning sign about the type of people Veejai hires. Ultimately, I called Veejai and told him Dean was a no-show, so Veejai said he'd come by himself.

I showed Veejai what needed to be done around the house and we concluded it was a one day job. However, he shocked me when he said he'd charge $1,500 for the work as he'd need to bring in someone else to help complete the tasks and buy the materials. I objected since the work was not difficult and one person could easily complete it within a day. I offered to pay for all materials and said my max budget was $400. Ultimately, he settled for $450 (or $50/hr) as he realized there wasn't as much work as he first thought.

Instead of completing the work as planned in one day, Veejai always showed up late morning and never managed to work more than 2-3 hours before having to head home. I didn't mind this so much as I was paying him for the project and not on a per diem basis, so I paid him a bit each day. However, he never completed the work in the assigned time of 2 weeks and as I had to head overseas so he promised to finish when I returned. Having no choice, I agreed but held back some of the payment as he hadn't finished.

On my driveway Veejai threw a temper tantrum and flung my cash on the ground saying he wanted all the money in full. I told him no as he needed to finish all the work first. Again, he got upset and started to raise his voice. Ultimately, he was causing such a ruckus and a shockingly childish ranting and raving display in front of my neighbours that I agreed to pay him in full just to shut him up provided we have a signed contract of the outstanding 4 items. I ended up paying him $500 or $50 above our original deal as he needed to install an extra bannister leg.

In the legally binding contract dated Oct 21, 2011, we stated his full name, his address, and what needed to be done and that he would complete the project before the end of 2011. He signed it. I gave him a copy and kept the original.

When I returned on Dec 5th, 2011, I contacted Veejai on his cell phone but could never get a hold of him. So, I reluctantly texted him. He texted back in his typical sloppy manner (quite unreadable and full of blank messages) that he was busy and can't do my work until middle to late January. I said we have a contract for end of 2011 and I expected him to honour that. He refused and kept putting me off until the following month. Ultimately he cut off communication and said not to discuss further until next month. I was not happy but had no choice so I waited.

In early January, I went away to Florida but when I got back on Jan 22, 2011, I tried to reach Veejai on his cell, but kept getting a fast busy signal as if the line had been disconnected. I texted him several times but got no response. A few days went by and still getting the fast busy signal I called his brother-in-law to see if he could connect with Veejai as I felt his phone wasn't working. He said he would see him before the weekend so will pass my message along to have Veejai call me. Come Monday, I hadn't heard anything so I called the brother-in-law again and he said he hadn't seen Veejai, and also said rather curtly that I was to stop calling him (the B-i-L) as he had nothing to do with the contract. I told him I was referred to Veejai through his wife, I have a signed contract, and if I cannot reach Veejai via his cell then I have no other option but to call his family. He told me if I couldn't contact Veejai then he couldn't call him either as he has the same number as I do. But, he said next time he sees Veejai he would have him call me.

A half-hour later I got a call from Veejai (from a different tel #) and he was yelling and screaming at me to stop calling his family or else he would charge me for harassment and stalking. He was cursing & swearing profusely throughout the call. I could barely get a word in edgewise but trying my best to keep cool I told him he has to complete the contract as promised for end of January, and if his phone was disconnected then how else was I to reach him except through his family? He talked trash and gibberish to me for the next half hour saying he never signed a contract and that I was lying and fraudulently made the contract up and insisted that I had checked off all items on his list and he had nothing left to do at my home.

I told him I had a legally binding contract with his full name and address, with 4 outstanding items, and he signed it. He told me there was never a contract as he never signed anything and even if there was it wasn't legal unless witnessed by his lawyer. He started to come off as a bigshot contractor saying he only builds restaurants and the only reason he agreed to help me was because I came crying to his sister looking for someone (which was blatantly not true as I was just trying to help him get more established). In fact, I had simply mentioned my requirements to his sister in passing and she referred me to him. Obviously, she was biased as he is her brother.

When Veejai finally stopped talking, I told him I needed a bunch of his work to be redone as it had started to fall apart. He laughed and said his work was platinum, that it was the best. He told me never to call him again or he'd have me charged for stalking and harassment. Then he hung up!

In summary, Veejai Ramdihall is a con artist and a thief because he stole money from me without completing the work in our legally binding contract which he signed and has a copy of. He insisted I didn't have his address, however he became very quiet when I read it to him from the contract over the phone. In December I have text messages proving he realized there was an outstanding contract and work was still to be done, but a month later he has all but forgotten about the contract and laughingly insists I made it up. In other words, he is a blatant liar as well!

One of my contractor friends came to visit last week (from out of province) and I showed him the work Veejai had done and my friend was shocked at how shoddy the workmanship was. He was disgusted that Veejai didn't know the difference between oak and pine (I have all oak but Veejai thought it was pine) and whatever work he had completed was in such a poor state as to be almost useless. For instance, a shelf he'd installed in my basement washroom's closet had already started to fall apart and we'd barely even touched it!

My friend knows the type of materials used to construct my home are very expensive and of only the finest workmanship (ie. built from marble, crystal, granite, herringbone wood, natural stone, stained glass, etc). The people who built my home were pros, the best of the best. Veejai has obviously never worked on a custom house so anything outside of cookie-cutter drywall construction was new to him.

I felt I had been more than fair to pay Veejai $50/hour for the work we had agreed. He has taken $500 from me and it will probably cost me more than that to fix the shoddy work that Veejai had completed. Out of the 7 tasks I had asked of him, 6 will have to be almost completely redone.

Veejai claims he does high quality work but in my experience (and in talking to my contractor friend) it
appears Veejai is absolutely clueless in this regard. Pretty much everything he did for me was utter crap!

In a way I feel sorry for Veejai. He has low self-esteem and ZERO credibility so needs to resort to lying, cheating, stealing, cursing, temper tantrums, and outright cons to try to stay afloat. Not only that, he wears ripped & filthy clothing everywhere in the house (ie. torn jeans, socks, etc) that tracks dirt. I tried to get him to wear a pair of our new slippers but he refused.

Do yourself a favour and STAY FAR AWAY from this dirty rotten scam artist.