Hello. I’m putting my pride aside and doing something I rarely do. And that is asking for your help. I’m a disabled father of two boys Hunter who will turn four on Christmas day and William who is one years old. My wife is a full time mom and student. We bought our home just prior to the pandemic. I was hurt in automobile accident several years before that and received a settlement for my injuries. I’m now permanently disabled and receive SSD. I was able to purchase our home with the funds we received from the settlement. It’s a modest home but it’s warm and cozy and it’s ours. After we purchased it I hired a contractor to do some renovations. What followed suit is a nightmare at best. The contractor Conan Gentile started demanding more money and was aggressive and intimidating . He showed up at our rental property as we were not living in the purchased home at this time as we needed the renovations to complete prior to moving in. He said he wanted 15000.00 dollars as he was doing more work than expected. This was not part of the contract and when I told him I didn’t have it he pulled a gun out and told me he had killed four people in the past and didn’t mind making me the fifth one. He told me I had two days to get it and said if I went to the cops he would kill me and my family. This was all done in front of my terrified wife and one year old son who was crying hysterically. He left abruptly and I told my wife I would figure it out and kept a calm face about me. I was very fearful but did not let it show in front of them. The following day he called and said he would be coming by the next day and again asked if I had the money which I explained to him again I did not. He said we could work something out and even though he was not owed any thing I did not want to risk our lives over the house. It was easy to see he was a sociopath and I had hired a contractor who was a conman and later found out to be a lifelong criminal. He showed up and said we could sign over half of our deed to him in lie if not having the cash. At this point I was to fearful for my family and asked my wife to sing it and I signed it as well. I did not have any further contact with him after that and was informed by the neighbors that he was staying at our house around the clock with his gf at this point. This was also not legal as we did not have the occupancy permit yet and it was stipulated in the sale to get one after the work was done. We did not go to the house as we did not want to encounter Conan. A month later he shot his gf at the house and had a standoff with the police before being taken into custody. At this point his name was not added to our deed. I figured he had gotten scared to file it as he knew it was signed under duress of having had a gun pointed at me and being told he would kill me and my family prior to us signing. After being in Jail for several months he did have it filed and we were dismayed to learn he had added himself and his gf whom he had just shot added to our deed. We had to file stay away orders on her and as he was in jail waived having one on him. He was just sentenced to eight years for this after almost three years sitting in the county jail. He is going to be facing additional murder charges(2) unrelated to this case that he ave since come to light. Although he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison he was able to find an attorney to take his case pro Bono to land court in Boston. Forcing us t ok pay for an attorney to represent us and save our home and being forced to sell it and pay this criminal money he wasn’t owed and never earned. Not only has he created a very costly hardship due to mounting legal fees but he never commented the work he was paid for and instead did over 16000.00 dollars in damage to the home by gutting the copper pipes and heating system punching holes in walls and breaking brand new windows and pipes bursting from no heat. Kitchen and bath faucets etc. The legal fees are over 12000.00 as of now and expected to cost us around 25 thousand at the end of the land court case. I very strongly believe the judge sees through this and it will end the way it should with them being removed from our deed. He had claimed we sold him and his gf half of our home for 200 dollars. But nonetheless he conned an attorney into believing his lies and dragged us the victims into court this making us fight to save our home. Our only income is from SSD disability benefits every month and we are trying to keep afloat but the legal fees are severely putting us behind with our cost of living budget and bills. We are now behind 10 thousand on our property taxes and one of our two vehicles was repossessed . Im not one to ask for handouts but our home is all we have and my wife and young sons deserve to have a home and stability. Any help is and will be greatly appreciated and best wishes to everyone wether you can or cannot help our cause. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I’m keeping the faith that it will all work out for the best in the end. Sincerely Tommy, Gab, Hunter, and William. Paypal.me/tommyw0228