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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcoming our friend Mike McKnight from Channel six to the program. Mike,
I mentioned this story the other day. Good morning, by
the way, good boy to you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I thought, so you guys been spending three hours on
kiss cam today when I have time for me.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
No, I'm not a big we don't have a kiss cam.
The lighting. The lighting is poor in this studio. Otherwise
it'd be up and run at a point. How about that story.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But this deal, and I mentioned it the other day
of this couple up in Washington County. Their homes were
wiped out by the Arbor Day tornado over a year ago,
and so they contracted with this custom builder, Davis Custom Builders.
Splash this out a little bit. How much did they spend?
The builder basically just said I'm not I'm out of business.
(00:45):
And so they're stuck, right, and they're not alone.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
There's probably about I'm guessing they come in every day,
maybe up to forty or fifty people building custom homes
in both Iowa and Nebraska. And they've actually got Facebook
groups going, you know, talking about what happened to them.
There's law enforcement involved in several counties and also been
(01:10):
there's been contact with the FBI. Federal authorities still look
into this. And what happened to this couple of the
Becklets up there. You know, there's a great family. He's
like seventy six. She's assaulted the earth, she's seventy three.
And they have two homes with her daughter on one,
and the tornado came right through, you know, blast them
both for houses out. They survived, they were home, they
(01:31):
made it out. And then they contracted with this Davis
Custom Homes that specializes in barnuminiums, which are basically houses
that are big open houses basically, and according to him,
and they've they've showed me some paperwork and checks. They
paid this custom builder up to eight hundred thousand, four
(01:54):
hundred thousand out of their insurance settlement so far, and
then another four thousand and from his life savings. And
he was like a mechanic for Douglas County and that
sort of thing. So pretty traumatic and this happened. I
think what is really sad and what makes their daughter angry,
who also lost her home in the same property, is
that her dad was going through chemotherapy when he was
(02:17):
negotiating this home build, and so he knew that and
all they got right now is a hole for a foundation.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I would think the insurance company would be involved too, right,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I think all angles, all angles are on deck here, Gary.
I think from insurance to local authorities, federal authorities, I mean,
you name it, they're just really people are really gathering
their information. They're getting together. Is sort of a groundswell
of people who have these homes in various stages. The
(02:54):
Beckwits are probably the worst off, but there are others
that have their home seventy eighty percent completed. I did
another story in a couple of Gretna who had there's
about seventy five percent completed, but most of the construction
one was drawn on, and now they've got six liens
and she's got seven kids, and they're kind of going, well,
what do we do now we're an apartment waiting and
(03:16):
the builder just close.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is that declare bankruptcy or anything or yet?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's the rumor, but we've not been able to find
that filed anywhere. There's probably about six company names being
used here, so you have to plus the fact that
he was based had offices in Des Moines, Omaha, and
also Houston, Texas, So where would you have filed it?
And that's probably coming. But all these people, it just
(03:43):
keeps getting bigger and bigger, all these liens as subs
are not getting paid. Is basically last week I talked
to one gentleman cardawake as a nice barnament name going
and they said they went in to look at Tyle
on Thursday and by Monday they couldn't get a hold
of them. They were gone. That's just how fast it was.
Almost over the week, over the weekend gone. So we're
(04:04):
talking probably maybe three dozen homeowners. And these aren't small
houses either. Yeah, I think it's ongoing and there's still
a lot more. I'm going to keep bringing these stories
of people with their heartaches and they're literally their dreams broken,
their dream house broken. They thought a week ago they
(04:25):
were going to be moving into their dream home.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now and so and so the Bequettes are out four
hundred thousand of their own money and with nothing to show.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Just so knowing Mike McKnight, you've you've been tenacious trying
to trying to reach this home builder. What do you
get his voicemail?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's it him, his subs, everybody, he's basically based in
Des Moines and so, uh, you know, our affiliate over
there has also they've picked up on it and they've
knocked on doors. But you know, he could he's just
not answering. It's not returning calls. We don't know who
the lawyer is. The subs that work for him obviously
(05:07):
are trying to find him to get paid, but also
also his staff. Those phone those phones have been disconnected
and that's you know what's most frustrating these people is
that's what they get, you know, voicemail full or disconnected.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, uh, this operator has big legal problems. I mean,
you say you've got this. They got the state and
the FEDS and the insurance companies on their case.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So it's just all starting to roll. It's just they're
all just starting to at least three counties in Nebraska
I know of that, our getting reports the sheriffs are
because most of these barnuminiums are out kind of ruraled
as far as I know, there's not any within the
limits of the city limits of Omaha. They're mostly a rural,
you know e preach type of builds.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, you and I do ads for genger instructures and
they do they do Barnos and they're really cool. They're cool.
But so here's here are the big cats. They got nothing.
So what is a living in a trailer or a
mobile home?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Mobile home again RV. They said the people up at
Cotton would have been very good to them. So yeah,
they're they're our on r V, living up above the river.
And then they come down to their area and it's
just trillly. What's also said is just off to the
side is they have a chance to clean up their
old debris from their old house that got blown away
(06:30):
the tornado. So that's on one side, and then they
got this empty hole that's surrounded by weeds now and
eight hundred thousand out of their bank account because insurance
already paid them the four hundred thousands, so that's basically
out of their pocket too.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Because Mike, I'll tell you what sometimes happens, because it's
we reach a large area here. As you know, sometimes
when we shed light on a story like this, somebody
well know something about the company in question in this
case is Davis. You might uh Davis, Yeah, that that
(07:06):
doesn't particularly care for him. You may get some information
from this from this, Yeah, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You got my number, buddy, You got it man.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Thanks Mike McKnight, Channel six here o k f a
b's morning news
Welcoming our friend Mike McKnight from Channel six to the program. Mike,
I mentioned this story the other day. Good morning, by
the way, good boy to you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I thought, so you guys been spending three hours on
kiss cam today when I have time for me.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
No, I'm not a big we don't have a kiss cam.
The lighting. The lighting is poor in this studio. Otherwise
it'd be up and run at a point. How about that story.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But this deal, and I mentioned it the other day
of this couple up in Washington County. Their homes were
wiped out by the Arbor Day tornado over a year ago,
and so they contracted with this custom builder, Davis Custom Builders.
Splash this out a little bit. How much did they spend?
The builder basically just said I'm not I'm out of business.
(00:45):
And so they're stuck, right, and they're not alone.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
There's probably about I'm guessing they come in every day,
maybe up to forty or fifty people building custom homes
in both Iowa and Nebraska. And they've actually got Facebook
groups going, you know, talking about what happened to them.
There's law enforcement involved in several counties and also been
(01:10):
there's been contact with the FBI. Federal authorities still look
into this. And what happened to this couple of the
Becklets up there. You know, there's a great family. He's
like seventy six. She's assaulted the earth, she's seventy three.
And they have two homes with her daughter on one,
and the tornado came right through, you know, blast them
both for houses out. They survived, they were home, they
(01:31):
made it out. And then they contracted with this Davis
Custom Homes that specializes in barnuminiums, which are basically houses
that are big open houses basically, and according to him,
and they've they've showed me some paperwork and checks. They
paid this custom builder up to eight hundred thousand, four
(01:54):
hundred thousand out of their insurance settlement so far, and
then another four thousand and from his life savings. And
he was like a mechanic for Douglas County and that
sort of thing. So pretty traumatic and this happened. I
think what is really sad and what makes their daughter angry,
who also lost her home in the same property, is
that her dad was going through chemotherapy when he was
(02:17):
negotiating this home build, and so he knew that and
all they got right now is a hole for a foundation.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I would think the insurance company would be involved too, right,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I think all angles, all angles are on deck here, Gary.
I think from insurance to local authorities, federal authorities, I mean,
you name it, they're just really people are really gathering
their information. They're getting together. Is sort of a groundswell
of people who have these homes in various stages. The
(02:54):
Beckwits are probably the worst off, but there are others
that have their home seventy eighty percent completed. I did
another story in a couple of Gretna who had there's
about seventy five percent completed, but most of the construction
one was drawn on, and now they've got six liens
and she's got seven kids, and they're kind of going, well,
what do we do now we're an apartment waiting and
(03:16):
the builder just close.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is that declare bankruptcy or anything or yet?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's the rumor, but we've not been able to find
that filed anywhere. There's probably about six company names being
used here, so you have to plus the fact that
he was based had offices in Des Moines, Omaha, and
also Houston, Texas, So where would you have filed it?
And that's probably coming. But all these people, it just
(03:43):
keeps getting bigger and bigger, all these liens as subs
are not getting paid. Is basically last week I talked
to one gentleman cardawake as a nice barnament name going
and they said they went in to look at Tyle
on Thursday and by Monday they couldn't get a hold
of them. They were gone. That's just how fast it was.
Almost over the week, over the weekend gone. So we're
(04:04):
talking probably maybe three dozen homeowners. And these aren't small
houses either. Yeah, I think it's ongoing and there's still
a lot more. I'm going to keep bringing these stories
of people with their heartaches and they're literally their dreams broken,
their dream house broken. They thought a week ago they
(04:25):
were going to be moving into their dream home.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now and so and so the Bequettes are out four
hundred thousand of their own money and with nothing to show.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Just so knowing Mike McKnight, you've you've been tenacious trying
to trying to reach this home builder. What do you
get his voicemail?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's it him, his subs, everybody, he's basically based in
Des Moines and so, uh, you know, our affiliate over
there has also they've picked up on it and they've
knocked on doors. But you know, he could he's just
not answering. It's not returning calls. We don't know who
the lawyer is. The subs that work for him obviously
(05:07):
are trying to find him to get paid, but also
also his staff. Those phone those phones have been disconnected
and that's you know what's most frustrating these people is
that's what they get, you know, voicemail full or disconnected.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, uh, this operator has big legal problems. I mean,
you say you've got this. They got the state and
the FEDS and the insurance companies on their case.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So it's just all starting to roll. It's just they're
all just starting to at least three counties in Nebraska
I know of that, our getting reports the sheriffs are
because most of these barnuminiums are out kind of ruraled
as far as I know, there's not any within the
limits of the city limits of Omaha. They're mostly a rural,
you know e preach type of builds.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, you and I do ads for genger instructures and
they do they do Barnos and they're really cool. They're cool.
But so here's here are the big cats. They got nothing.
So what is a living in a trailer or a
mobile home?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Mobile home again RV. They said the people up at
Cotton would have been very good to them. So yeah,
they're they're our on r V, living up above the river.
And then they come down to their area and it's
just trillly. What's also said is just off to the
side is they have a chance to clean up their
old debris from their old house that got blown away
(06:30):
the tornado. So that's on one side, and then they
got this empty hole that's surrounded by weeds now and
eight hundred thousand out of their bank account because insurance
already paid them the four hundred thousands, so that's basically
out of their pocket too.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Because Mike, I'll tell you what sometimes happens, because it's
we reach a large area here. As you know, sometimes
when we shed light on a story like this, somebody
well know something about the company in question in this
case is Davis. You might uh Davis, Yeah, that that
(07:06):
doesn't particularly care for him. You may get some information
from this from this, Yeah, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You got my number, buddy, You got it man.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Thanks Mike McKnight, Channel six here o k f a
b's morning news
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