We’re willing to be a few of you have had your car stolen right off your driveway either while you slept or were out for the day in another vehicle. But one Florida woman had her entire driveway stolen while she was out, leaving her with a patch of mud outside her front door and a $10k bill to fix it.
Not long after putting here Apopka home up for sale, Amanda Brochu noticed people showing up at her property measuring the driveway. When she asked the contractor why he was there the man told her someone from Tampa called Andre had enquired about replacing the concrete slabs outside Brochu’s house, she told WFTV Channel 9.
That job didn’t go ahead because the contractor demanded full payment and proof of property ownership before starting the job, and when Brochu contacted police, the contractors told her that the mysterious Andre claimed to them that he had simply made a mistake with the address.
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But a week later Brochu’s doorbell camera captured footage of a mini digger tearing up the concrete slabs on her driveway. By the time cops arrived at the property the new contractors had hauled away the broken-up concrete leaving behind just a dirt track between the road and the house.
Brochu already had her eye on a new property, but with her own house now in a far less saleable state and her bank balance some way short of the $10k needed to replace the driveway, the dream of a new home looked like it was disappearing fast. So Brochu set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise the cash needed to fix the driveway, and within a matter of days it had hit received over $13,500 of donations.
But The Daily Mail reports that after hearing Brochu’s tale on a local news report, a Cox Media Group radio sponsor offered to replace the driveway for free, and as result Brochu will be donating her GoFundMe bounty.
Unless he was trying to drive down the price of the house so he could buy it for less, it’s hard to see what the ‘scammer’ was getting out of this other than knowing he had caused Brochu a ton of misery, so maybe it was just a vendetta. But whatever the scam is, it’s apparently not an uncommon one. Rocki Sannchez, Brochu’s realtor, posted about the incident in a Facebook group for realtors and received comments from other agents saying they’d come across similar incidents involving houses being repainted or having their roof replaced.
