Looking back, Aimee Carriere says she knows she didn't do her due diligence as she normally would have when hiring a contractor.

She thought she could trust Alan Hrehirchuk to do the work, since their kids played hockey together.

Plus, she says he'd done work for another hockey family, and says he boasted a celebrity endorsement from the HGTV show at the rink one day.

"I was like, 'What's the harm, I'll see him every day. It's just a couple exterior doors and two small bathrooms.' Where can he go, right?" said Carriere.

So, Carriere says she hired Hrehirchuk in May 2024.

'It's disheartening'

But she says by summer, she started to worry about work not being done, tradespeople not getting paid and items that were supposedly purchased not showing up.

Carriere says in the end, she gave

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