Bamboo Living
15-2903 Pahoa Village Rd, Pāhoa, HI 96778
Modular home builder
Alexander Ambard
My wife and I paid Bamboo Living $252,969.66 for a bamboo house kit along with design and architectural services for a fully approved permit to build our home. Bamboo Living submitted a useless permit application to the county with gross omissions such as no plumbing plan included. The permit application was denied by the county for over a dozen different reasons.
We asked for a refund and we were told publicly we would be given one. We were also told publicly by Bamboo Living that the company does not want us as clients anymore and that they were no longer willing to build our house kit for a variety of reasons.
Over a year has passed and we have received no refund of any kind. We were required to go to mediation as per our contract and spent over $30,000 to do so. Bamboo Living refused to agree to any settlement offers. They then refused to enter arbitration while citing supposed poverty. We have asked for a full refund on all payments made to this company. We are now going to the authorities with this now that we have given a very reasonable amount (1 year) of time to refund us.
The last time we left a review here for Bamboo Living they compelled us to remove it by threatening to sue us for "slander" after saying they intended to refund us. We have waited a year for this refund, and have received nothing. We have contacted the Hawaii attorney general's office and will be pursuing criminal charges if our funds are not returned.
DATE
INVOICE
AMOUNT
5/28/2022
QuickBooks Payment Confirmation (Site Visit)
$549.74
8/2/2022
Invoice (Design Deposit)
$37,832.45
8/2/2022
Invoice (Materials Deposit)
$122,511.73
6/8/2023
QuickBooks Payment Confirmation
$25,968.57
6/30/2023
QuickBooks Payment Confirmation
$3,034.55
6/30/2023
QuickBooks Payment Confirmation
$57,697.62
7/24/2023
QuickBooks Payment Confirmation
$5,375.00
TOTAL
$252,969.66 read more