Barrier Reef Pools - Prestige Pools - Charlie Fusco & GFriend Melody Dyson Con Artist, Fraud, "used car salesman" Cheat, Liar, Dishonest, Bait and Switch, Doesn't finish, uses your money to pay for older, incomplete work ripoff Harrisonburg Virginia

Charlie Fusco and his girlfriend, Melody Dyson are up to no good. They are out there selling a "range" of fiberglass pools, (depends on which pool they can sell you, what your budget is or who they are up against in the competition for your business, could be a Barrier Reef Pool, less expensive, less options, or a "Crystal Palace Pool" ((new range of "Viking Pools", little higher end and more options)), collecting deposits, hiring shoddy contractors, showing up to collect money when money is due (but rarely ever if there is a problem, that takes repeated attempts at reaching them and getting returned phone calls).

They ALWAYS show up when it is time to collect a payment, probably because they need your money to pay for older, still unfinished jobs like covers etc. Word has it that they do NOT pay their contractors. They try too, but if money gets tight and they dont have enough "new" deposits in from new contracts, they can't afford to pay the contractors for work they are doing, possibley on YOUR job!

No big deal, Charlie just hits the streets and starts signing up new business, using that money and off they go. SERIOUS case of borrowing from Peter, Bill, Henry, Bob or ANYONE, to pay PAUL!

Confirmed bad debts include several contractors, MANY, MANY suppliers (but you have to check under both names, Charlie &/or Melody, AND Prestige Pools and/or Barrier Reef Pools! They have been known to open up accounts in one name or the other, depending on "if" they already owe you money in one name!

Prestige Pools LLC (A Charlie Fusco Company) filed for BK owing Viking pools nearly 65K. Then Viking for some unknown reason allowed him to sell pools as Prestige Pools (no LLC this time)for one of their new companies, Crystal Palace Pools!! Barrier Reef Pools for some unknown reason continues to allow him to sell their pools despite the homeowner complaints, and despite the fact that he sells SEVERAL and ANY/ALL makes of fiberglass pools!

Prestige Pools has at LEAST two confirmed bad checks to Hatchik Supply amounting to nearly 20K! Charlie lied to the owner of that company stating that "in his divorce, his wife had his accounts frozen!" meanwhile, continueing to issue checks to various people on that same account! Check with the owner of Hatchik Supply for compelte comfirmation,no lies here, it's the TRUTH! Charlie no longer uses them because he can't afford to pay them what he owes. now he has moved on to pool supply house in Ashland! (poor people! hope they are reading this and realize!!)

Charlie owes The Stone Center in Manassas several thousands of dollars from his past life as owner of "prestige pools LLC". I guess he thought the owner of that store wouldn't realize he was the same person when he had his girlfriend open up ANOTHER account in the name of Barrier Reef Pools! Unfortunately for the owner of the Stone Center, he DIDn't realize until Charlie actually had the nerve to show up one day to purchase something and he recognized the FACE! After inquiring with his staff, he was informed that was the man who they just opened up an account for under "Barrier Reef Pools!" Imagine the outrage for the poor owner of that store who had only just extended the creep credit a week earlier!!! Again, Check with the owner of the store, COMPLETE TRUTH!

Another trick of Charlies when attempting to get credit, he uses one company of his as a credit reference for the other!! If he is attempting to open up an account with you under Prestige Pools, he will list Barrier Reef as a reference! His girlfriend is his Sexretary and vouches for his creditworthiness! NICE!

Several contractors have complained about, Non payment, dealing with mad homeowners, shoddy installation contractors causing MAJOR issues for homeowners and additional contractors on the job. BOTH of his last two concrete subcontractors have HORROR stories about MAJOR pool settling causing serious issues with concrete cracking later. He CONTINUALLY blames his bad luck with contractors, poor guy, can't get anyone worth anything! (yet uses great big blowups of their work for display!!)

He blames the contractors that are now "on to him" and not working for him anymore as the "reason" behind any problem at all, be it, problems with a job..."Oh, my incompetent concrete contractor did that" or "I don't have any money as my last contractor "really messed me up this winter" RIGHT!! After he complains to you about his "bad" sub-contractors, ask him for their contact information and call them, then ask them about the circumstances, get the homeowners names on the jobs Charlie is complaining about, find out what EVERYONE has to say and the truth will come out. Also ask for OTHER references from the contractors of people they have done work for ASIDE from Charlie and you will see a pattern, those customers are HAPPY!

Charlie completed almost EVERY job until March of this year without the proper business license. He committed fraud by falsely completing his permit applications stating the jobs were valued at under $7,500 (the amount his previous Class C license allowed him to work up too). After being turned in to the VA Dept. of Occupt. & Profss. Regulation, he decided if he wanted to continue to rip people off, he should at least get his Class A and FINALLY did in March of this year...WHY the hell wouldnt VDOPR prevent him from that after obvious and blatant disregard for their regs??? He was turned in by people in Winchester, Harrisonburg, Stafford? Whats up with that.

The final thing should be this, if a guy has to resort to using two and three names to continue to do business, you have to ask y ourself WHY? What is he hiding. If he needs to use his own girlfriend and other company names for evidence of his creditworthiness, you have to ask yourself "Why"? If he was paying his bills to his subs, to his suppliers etc., and he has reportedly been doing this for so long, you have to ask yourself "WHY!!" He should have a list of his suppliers that he uses over and over and over again, but he cant, because he OWES THEM TOO MUCH MONEY!

homeowner/business owner
Manassas, Virginia
U.S.A.