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No apology. No accountability. No resolution.

Just a cease and desist letter and another threat to terminate Mum's contract.

The full update, with all the receipts, is here: https://thegrannyflatfiles.com.au/

Affordable Modular Buildings solicitor sent me a cease and desist accusing me of publishing false

and defamatory material, demanding i take it down and publicly apologise. Our solicitor has now

responded. We completely reject the allegations.

Since then, Tim has publicly said AMB withdrew because we didn't make the next payment and

Expandify therefore couldn't pay them.

Except our email to him at the time expressly said Mum was not refusing to pay. We were refusing

to pay almost $70,000 before the contract said it was due.

So l asked him a pretty simple question:

"If we had paid early, would AMB have stayed on the project and installed Mum's house?"

He's had plenty of time to publicly defend the business and make claims the receipts don't

support. He still hasn't answered that question.

Because if the answer is yes, I think most people would agree that is pretty egregious.

That would mean Mum lost her installation pathway because we wouldn't give in to what I consider

unethical pressure to pay almost $70,000 before the contract said it was due.

Expandify's solicitor has also suggested I take the website down because my public posts are "not

conducive to settlement".

What settlement exactly is what I'd like to know.....

I'd suggest very strongly that the way they are treating their customers is far less conducive to

settlement than me documenting it.

At the same time, Expandify's solicitor has issued another breach notice threatening to terminate

Mum's contract if the next 30% isn't paid by 12 October.

Again, we are not refusing to pay. We offered to put the full amount into their solicitor's trust

account because they still have no nominee and because of the financial risk raised by their own

representative.

They still don't have a nominee. So where the hell is the QBCC?

Mum has already paid more than $130,000 for a home she still doesn't have. If they terminate

anyway, she then has to spend even more of her money on lawyers to fight it.

What is the point of having a building regulator, licensing requirements and consumer protections

if the customer still has to personally fund a legal fight just to make any of it mean something?

Since going public, I've spoken to many Expandify customers who are scared, angry, being ignored

and still waiting. So far, I'm yet to speak to anyone who has had meaningful installation work

progress in the past month.

I didn't build an entire website on a whim. Since April, I've spent what feels like a part-time job on

top of my actual full-time job trying to resolve this privately.

Imagine how far you have to push an ordinary customer before they decide the sensible next step

is to build and publish a website.

I've had enough of businesses getting away with treating people like this.

Everything I've published has been meticulously documented, and l'il continue using my voice,

loudly and publicly, until we get somewhere.

We are scared. This is my mum's life savings. Everything she had. But being scared doesn't mean

being silent.

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Weaponising the fear of losing a home and life savings. Tying project

completion to us backing away from our solicitor and QBCC involvement.

And now,defensive public claims that don't match the record instead of any

accountability.

I'm not interested in letting that be swept under the rug. Ethical conduct

matters.

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MysticalRabbit9147

I had a builder go bankrupt that did modular buildings in china and I got my full

qbcc deposit back so yes it is absolutely possible.

And okay well that's fair enough but isn't this all just allegations. Haven't seen a

shred of evidence in literally any of your posts.

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MysticalRabbit9147 what exactly would you like to see?

Every single claim I've made I have the evidence for.

There are 131 emails, letters, call summaries, invoices, shipping records,

contracts, QBCC license searches all available on

https://thegrannyflatfiles.com.au

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MysticalRabbit9147 what exactly would you like to see?

Every single claim I've made I have the evidence for.

There are 131 emails, letters, call summaries, invoices, shipping records,

contracts, QBCC license searches all available on

https://thegrannyflatfiles.com.au

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Are you paying $200k for a expandable out of China? Seems very overpriced for a

container home

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Lucas Barry Baker yes, though to be fair it's quite large and has a lot of custom

add ons. We wouldn't feel ripped off if it'd been installed by now

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MysticalRabbit9147

Why don't you contact the QBCC

If the issue is you've paid money and you've gotten nothing then do a Deemed policy

through QBCC and be done with it

Your money issue seems to be with expandify not affordable modular so why the mud

dragging

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MysticalRabbit9147

We have contacted the QBCC. Mum's house was manufactured in China, so

QBCC cover doesn't simply cover the structure itself or refund everything she's

paid

So unfortunately it's not as simple as do a deemed policy and be done with it.

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MysticalRabbit9147

We have contacted the QBCC. Mum's house was manufactured in China, so

QBCC cover doesn't simply cover the structure itself or refund everything she's

paid.

So unfortunately it's not as simple as do a deemed policy and be done with it.

But what exactly do you consider mud dragging here?

If you think anything I've published is inaccurate, please tell me specifically

what.

I consider this documented consumer awareness.

We're talking about payment coercion. Ignoring a health-related instruction.

Weaponising the fear of losing a home and life savings. Tying project

completion to us backing away from our solicitor and QBCC involvement.

And now, defensive public claims that don't match the record instead of any

accountability.

I'm not interested in letting that be swept under the rug. Ethical conduct

matters.

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