wife, carol, spend sleepless nights worrying about their future. it has been an absolute nightmare. the person that we blame for it is the real estate agent who swore to us repeatedly that this contracting company was the best that he s seen. that agent is this man, paul stickney, who they blame for what has become a three-year nightmare. i wanted to talk to you about a story we re doing about the decourseys. yes. and about the fact that you were financially involved with the contractor that they hired. the decourseys say their problems began in october 2004. like millions of americans who relocate each year, they placed their trust in a real estate agent, who helped them find this house in redmond, washington. this time the home wrecker was a fully licensed professional, a long-standing member of the local real estate community. the house the decourseys bought was in desperate need of upgrading, something mark and carol say they were not prepared to do, but were convinced
have turned their lives upside down. we are on the verge of financial ruin. we could be looking at homelessness. instead of dreaming about their golden years, software engineer mark decoursey and his wife, carol, spend sleepless nights worrying about their future. it has been an absolute nightmare. the person that we blame for it is the real estate agent who swore to us repeatedly that this contracting company was the best that he s seen. that agent is this man, paul stickney, who they blame for what has become a three-year nightmare. i wanted to talk to you about a story we re doing about the decourseys. yes. and about the fact that you were financially involved with the contractor that they hired. the decourseys say their problems began in october 2004. like millions of americans who relocate each year, they placed their trust in a real estate agent, who helped them find this house in redmond, washington.
this time the home wrecker was a fully licensed professional, a long-standing member of the local real estate community. the house the decourseys bought was in desperate need of upgrading, something mark and carol say they were not prepared to do, but were convinced by this man, agent paul stickney, who introduced them to local contractor richard birgh. he said they had superb finish work, they had a unique pricing system, they were just absolutely fabulous. he brought the contractor in to evaluate the house before we purchased the house. we would not have purchased the house had we not thought that the work could be done for the price we d wanted to pay. this was the original bid they gave us. they say the contractor assured them that the total cost of his renovations would be no more than $90,000. it was represented to us that the prices would not go over this amount and it would not go under this amount. so we were fooled for quite a long time into thinking they could do wha