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Decorama Flooring customers Shawna Davidovich (left) and Heather Rudd are seeking answers after Decorama Flooring closed without notice, leaving them out of thousands of dollars. <\/p>\nPat Foran reports on the abrupt closure of Decorama Flooring in Bowmanville, Ont., leaving customers without refunds or the flooring they paid for. <\/p>\n
A flooring store in Durham Region has abruptly closed its doors without warning, leaving customers without refunds or the flooring they paid for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have three children and a home that currently has no floors,\u201d said Shawna Davidovich of Bowmanville.<\/p>\n
She and her husband paid in advance $7,250 to Decorama Flooring located in Bowmanville and were expecting to have the flooring installed in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n
But Davidovich said when she called to schedule her delivery, she got a major surprise.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually called at 11 p.m. at night, and a bailiff answered and said, \u2018We are terminating this place.\u2019 So we came the next day, and the locks on the doors had been changed, and there was a sign that said he hadn\u2019t paid the rent,\u201d Davidovich recounted to CTV News Toronto.<\/p>\n
Heather Rudd had also paid in advance $8,500 to Decorama Flooring and was expecting her flooring to be delivered and installed next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very upset,\u201d said the Oshawa resident.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamples were brought out to the house. I thought everything was flowing just fine, but now, not so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rudd and Davidovich are just two of what is believed to be many customers who paid in advance for flooring.<\/p>\n
Decorama Flooring customers Shawna Davidovich (left) and Heather Rudd are seeking answers after Decorama Flooring closed without notice, leaving them out of thousands of dollars. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear why the longtime business closed its doors, but customers say they were given no advance notice that there was a problem. <\/p>\n
CTV News called the store, but there is now a message that says, \u201cThis number is no longer in service.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doug Hoyes, a licensed insolvency trustee with Hoyes Michalos, said many businesses are feeling financial pressures due to inflation, rising prices and trade tensions with the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are definitely more business bankruptcies than there were a year, or two or even three years ago,\u201d said Hoyes.<\/p>\n
He added that while customers may be hopeful to get their money back when a company goes under, consumers are generally considered unsecured creditors who are least likely to get refunds.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a bankruptcy, there is an order of priorities. The government gets their money first. Banks get their money second because they\u2019re a secured creditor. If you put down a deposit down, you\u2019re at the end of the line and the last to get money if there is any left over,\u201d said Hoyes.<\/p>\n
As well as paying thousands of dollars for flooring and getting nothing in return, both Rudd and Davidovich said they will still need to buy flooring again from someone else. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo now I have to buy new flooring because our main floor needs flooring, and I\u2019ll have to pay for it again,\u201d said Davidovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Foran reports on the abrupt closure of Decorama Flooring in Bowmanville, Ont., leaving customers without refunds or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-157016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}