Alleged unpaid bills have led to more than $200,000 in claims against the Penticton-based construction company Okanagan Extreme Home Builders.
Six different civil claims have been filed by various businesses over alleged unpaid bills for services or materials they say they provided to the company, five of which have not been proven in court.
Three of the claims against Okanagan Extreme Home Builders, all filed by Pro Builders Supply — which does business as the Home Hardware in Penticton — additionally name Jason Stutzke as the director of the company and a defendant alongside the owners of three properties.
Stutzke is described as the founder of the company on the About Us page of its website, and is listed as the primary contact for the company on the Canadian Homebuilders Association of the South Okanagan.
The three claims from Pro Builders Supply amount to the majority of the alleged unpaid bills, with claims of $72,000, and $66,000, $28,000 of unpaid invoices and interest.
In each of those cases, according to court documents, the projects that the company was working on were left incomplete or abandoned by mid-2023.
A builder’s lien has also been applied for on all three properties.
The three claims by Pro Builders Supply were all filed on Jan. 17. There has been no response filed to the claims.
A claim filed on Nov. 29, 2023, by Finish First Interiors is seeking just over $14,000 for unpaid work, after allegedly receiving $6,500 towards a total bill of $20,600.
No response to that claim has yet been filed in court.
Only one case had a response filed to the initial claim. In that case, Ed’s Masonry is seeking $11,800 in unpaid labour and material, plus fees. A reply was filed on Jan. 25.
The reply effectively states that the claim was served incorrectly to Stutzke directly, instead of to Okanagan Extreme Home Builders.
A final claim that was filed in August of 2023 asked for a default order after no reply was filed within 21 days. A default judgment was approved.
That claim, from H.E.I. Hybrid Elevator Inc, sought $24,000, and in December an order of seizure and sale was filed.
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