Terra Plumbing

Mike, the owner of Terra Plumbing, provides collection agencies with false information in order to obtain additional profit. I used my home warranty to have a garbage disposal fixed in 11/2015. My home warrantly contacted Terra Pumbing to have it fixed. Per the contract, I pay Terra Plumbing a $75 deductible upon arrival and the home warranty is billed the rest. When Terra Plumbing arrived, I paid $75 by credit card. About 15 months later, 2/2017, I received a letter from a collection agency saying I owed Terra Plumbing $50. I called Terra Plumbing and spoke with the owner, Mike. Mike said the home warranty never paid him what he thought they owed him. I asked Mike how I have anything to do with the home warranty not paying him 15 months ago, because he has a contract with them, not me. His response, Well somebody gotta pay. Excuse me? So because you feel the home warranty didn't pay you what you wanted, you send me to collections in hope that SOMEBODY will pay you? Very illegal and dishonest. That can hurt someone's credit report. I paid what I was supposed to by the contract and Mike didn't dispute that I didn't. So I ask Mike why he thinks he can send me to collections for an amount that someone else owes him. Mike had no response. I contact the home warranty, who said Mike tried to add money to the invoice, after the home warranty already paid him. So, the home warranty told Mike they wouldn't pay him the extra money and then black listed him for being dishonest and adding charges to work orders outside of the contract (they said on multiple occasions). I contacted Mike again and he told me everything would be resolved within the week and he called the collection agency to tell them to not bother me (right, like I can believe you). I immediately called the collection agency and they said Mike never called them. I explained the situation to the collection agency, who has also now black listed Mike and his company from further business due to the amount of complaints they receive on him. The collection agency said that Mike has done this multiple times in the past. So, Mike uses collection agencies by giving false information in order to increase his profits and collect extra cash, in hopes that people will just pay to make it go away even if they don't owe, because Somebody gotta pay. So wrong, so dishonest, and what a terrible person to be running a business.