Linda Wagar and Brianna Lanham
12 months ago
LIBERTY, Missouri – When handyman Jamie Seib saw FOX4 Problem Solvers waiting for him outside the courthouse, he ran.
This surprised us as we were only there to see his side in disputes with several clients, all of whom accuse him of cheating on them.
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One of those clients was Deborah Mason, who sued Seib for the $1,500 she paid him as a down payment to paint her Pleasant Valley home. The work was supposed to be completed in a week, but that was months ago.
Mason said once she gave Seib money, she had trouble reaching him.
“He was missing for about a week,” Mason said.
But then Seib texted her that he needed $400 more before he could start the job. When she refused, Seib promised to start painting to prove to her that he was trustworthy.
That Saturday, he showed up with a ladder and spent an hour caulking boards outside their home. He even brought over a contractor-sized bucket of paint. Then, Mason said, he was gone again.
They exchanged increasingly heated text messages for days until Mason received a final text message from Seib telling her he wasn’t coming back.
“Ok, I’m done with all your disrespectful and negative thoughts towards me. Please put my ladder in the driveway and I’ll be there to pick it up,” Seib texted.
Mason then asked for her money back, but Seib never gave her a dime. She then filed a lawsuit and called FOX4 Problem Solvers.
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“I feel like someone needs to stop this from happening to other people,” Mason said.
Problem solvers wanted Seib’s side. So we tracked him down at the Clay County Justice Center, where he’s being charged with theft for charging $4,800 to have another client’s carpet installed and never getting the job done.
Although that customer wasn’t in court, Mason was, and so was Rachel Cox, another disgruntled Seib customer.
Both women watched from the gallery as Seib, who appeared without a lawyer, declared to the judge that he was innocent. The judge ordered him to have a court-appointed attorney at his next court date on July 19.
“I hired Jamie Seib to build a patio for me,” Cox said after the trial. Cox said she paid him $5,000, but the workmanship was so poor that the deck began to collapse just weeks after he finished the job.
“I asked him several times to come out and fix it, but he never did,” Cox said.
Also included in the list of errors were foundations with no concrete support and split wood. Cox was awarded a $2,000 judgment against Seib in small claims court. That was nine months ago. She said she didn’t see a penny.
Meanwhile, Seib’s already bad day was about to get even worse. Problem Solvers recorded everything on camera.
“I’m not going to talk to you,” he told FOX4.
But Seib needs to talk to the judge.
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