Legal troubles for contractors in the BuildTrend ring continue into 2017.
Garvin Arthur Donaghy (and his companies RBS Builders and RBSF) were "project manager" agents of BuildTrend on several projects in Pennsylvania, including after the time when Shawn Gerety (aka Sean Gerety, Shawn Nicola) began to communicate bankruptcy plans for the BuildTrend entity to certain customers. Gerety was simultaneously starting new entities and moving south to Delaware and Maryland as Garvin was approaching customers for incremental payments and change orders. From the perspective of many BuildTrend customers, Garvin Donaghy and Gerety were one in the same.
A paint supplier started legal action against Garvin in Delaware County civil action 2017-002231: Sherwin-Williams Co vs Donaghy. Garvin failed to respond and Sherwin-Williams won a default judgement for $7,100 in April.
Garvin owns real estate in Media, PA and has a history of tax liens and judgments. This blog has previously covered Garvin's associations with BuildTrend (see 2015-Sept RBSF & JD Kelly).
RBSF Construction Company retains an active home improvement contractor registration in PA #114667 with an address of 3 East Spring Oak Circle, Media PA 19063. The registration for one of Garvin's other companies RBS Builders (HIC #088891) expired and was not renewed.
Hearing reports that Garvin may have some projects struggling behind plan in New Jersey.
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