MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – According to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, almost 40 circumstances towards Sunshine Pools and Contracting Group, Inc. have been introduced to the State Construction Industry Licensing Board.
The board, which regulates development contractors and their companies, ordered Sixto Muñoz to relinquish his license. Muñoz is the licensed qualifier for Sunshine Pools.
As a part of a settlement settlement, Muñoz agreed to “never to again apply for licensure as a contractor or financially responsible officer in the State of Florida.” He additionally agreed that he’ll “not act as a partner, officer, director, trustee of, or be employed in a managerial capacity by any business organization that engages in contracting in the State of Florida.”
The licensing board additionally awarded restitution to 39 complainants.
“We had to come up with the twenty-grand that he stole, plus the remaining [to finish],” stated Soraya Hernandez. She’s one of many dozens of house owners who paid for a Sunshine pool, solely to find yourself with piles of dust, or big holes, rebar, or unfinished initiatives.
“He never had any intention of finishing our pools,” Hernandez stated. “Even after he filed for bankruptcy, he was still taking money for, and promising to finish jobs that he wasn’t doing.”
Hernandez is referring to Joseph Valdes. He’s the contractor she met, and the financially accountable officer of Sunshine Pools.
Valdes filed for chapter in March. We by no means heard from him, or his legal professional. A DBPR spokesperson stated because the FRO, Valdes is “also being prosecuted, and if the [licensing board] finds him guilty of any violations and awards restitution against his license, complainants would also be able to file claims with the recovery fund against his license.”
When we started looking into Sunshine Pools’ dealings, the company had almost two-dozen expired permits on document with Miami-Dade County, alone, for various jobs relationship again to final yr.
In April, county officers suspended the company’s license for failing to right these expired permits.
DBPR stated the state’s Homeowners Construction Recovery Fund awarded 141 claims, final fiscal yr, totaling greater than $2.7 million {dollars}.
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