OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A modern bathroom is what a senior couple made a down payment for, but they’ve been left with a mess instead. Their frustration over the incomplete project goes beyond money.

In Council Bluffs, Linda suffers from dementia, but instead of putting his wife in a nursing home, Dennie Schnitker is determined to keep her at home.

“60 years ago I signed on for better or worse and that’s the way it’s going to be,” he said.

But a bathroom remodel to make daily life better for his wife has been worse than Dennie planned.

“A mess and a promise that’s what I got,” he said.

After he paid $2,800 down to Michael Sullivan of Competitive Contracting, LLC in June, which started demo of the bathroom in early July and left gaps in a wall and floor plus filling up the tub.

”Promise a

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