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Living in black mold: disabled vet stuck after botched home remodel ends in contractors arrest [Video]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A home contractor accused of swindling seniors was arrested this week. Now we are hearing from one of his victims, a disabled vet who is going blind and has been trying to prepare his home now to make it handicap accessible.

The vet refinanced his home to come up with money and paid the contractor, Gabriel Raymundo Adame, $60,000. An investigation into Adame’s company by the Nevada State Contractors Board found that he would consistently charge homeowners massive down payments for home remodeling projects before any work was performed. The work that was performed at vet’s home is nothing short of shocking.

Adrian Pitts is now literally living in a nightmare amidst black mold, plumbing that isn’t connected, and electric that doesn’t work. Pitts took FOX5 on a tour of the chaotic and unsafe place he is forced to call home.

FOX5’s Kim Passoth spoke …

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