Finish what you started Podular

Podular have vacated their Christchurch “factory “ now too. Now on a small 800 metre gravel yard at 17 Freight Drive Rolleston- site still has area for lease on gate so maybe week to week arrangement for Podular?? Let’s know progress – have family member signed up with them and they too are having slipped dates…

Hamilton factory at Airport appears abandoned today unless everyone has the day off

I’m sorry to hear that J Gordon, but not surprised. In hindsight we’d do things differently and without knowing how far along your family member is I’d suggest: – take every opportunity / make opportunities to inspect; – ask direct questions. Who are the PBLs? If you can, meet them and establish a rapport. – maintain positive and frequent dialogue – insist on evidence as you go along to include the PS3s, PS4s etc. – talk with the subbies if you know who they are (if not, try and find out) – contact Council directly to see if their records match what the builder is telling you – check contract for when transfer of title occurs (e.g. on payment? on delivery?) – consider security e.g. PPSR, if in their yard clearly marked ‘property of x’. If a company goes into receivership, it will be helpful if you can clearly establish title to identifiable product on their yard – concerns about solvency? Be very careful before paying more. A lawyer should be able to provide more guidance – get a copy of the packs sent to Council(s) and the consented plans. Double check them. – check the contract for payment terms – if haven’t already, get advice from lawyer to better understand terms of contract and the Construction Contracts Act – ask for copies of the insurance certificates of currency Sorry – that turned out to be more of a note to myself (if ever we’re brave enough to do a new build again). As for our build: – one of the team is supposedly collating the docs for CCC. Still hasn’t been applied for; – I’ve asked for a copy of docs to support the CCC application – not a single one has been sent through; – they assured me that the unpaid subcontractors were on last week’s Friday pay run. I don’t know about the others, but at least one has advised me that they are still waiting to receive payment.

I would avoid Podular at all costs. They leave a trail of unpaid invoices, screw around clients and staff are leaving in droves. Management are clowns, fairly sure its on its way to going under

I’ve just seen on Facebook a post from another disgruntled Podular customer.

Hi Gary, did you work for these guys?

Hi Veronica, yes these are just the facts I posted and have already been removed from Podular website and I have been blocked: Podular can you tell me what is going on? Our contract was for a unit to be delivered complete on our section within 13 weeks of starting, which means the unit should have been completed in September last year. The unit was delivered incomplete and with substantial defects on 11 January 2022, 4 months late. It has now been more than a year since the unit should have been completed, and we have not heard back from you since June, despite our lawyers also reaching out. You subcontracted our builder to fix the issues with the unit after it was delivered, but he tells us that you have not paid him for any of the work he has done since before 1 June this year. Our builder tells us he has contacted the other engineers you subcontracted, who say they are also waiting for their invoices to be paid. Rotorua-Lakes Council has also confirmed that it is waiting for payment before it will issue Code Compliance Certification. Per our contract, you should have obtained Code Compliance more than a year ago. We are unable to obtain Code Compliance from Rotorua-Lakes and Auckland Councils. Auckland is waiting on Rotorua- Lakes to issue Code Compliance before it will even consider an application. We are becoming incredibly frustrated at the lack of progress, and lack of communication with us. The main stumbling block appears to be your failure to pay invoices as they fall due. As you have been ignoring our emails, and our lawyers, we are publicly reaching out to see what is happening with our unit. Are you going to complete it, or are we going to have to finish your job ourselves?

I would avoid Podular at all costs. They leave a trail of unpaid invoices, screw around clients and staff are leaving in droves. Management are clowns, fairly sure its on its way to going under

Hi David, yes. leaving was the best decision. worst company to ever work for. Management have no idea how to run a business, invoices go unpaid for months and then sub-trades and other external contractors put their services on hold, which delays builds/consenting etc, constant lies to staff, lies to clients, the lower level workers are good but its all negatively impacted by the higher up’s

I have been chasing Podular for four months for agreed refund on failed Podular build. Finally received a email reply from Charles 2 days ago with an “”I’ll make contact with you next week with an update” So, still no payment & from my terrible customer experience with Podular “next week” translate to will do nothing. I too, have had my posts on Podular FB site deleted & am blocked too. I tried many times to resolve this privately with Charles Innes, Ally & Janice, Podular never responded to any of more than a dozen emails, and voicemails.

Yes, that is the impression I am getting. We still don’t have a house on our site. A building does exist in ChCh but no idea when or if we will get it finished and on site. None of the deadlines they have set have been honoured so far. I fear they will be bankrupt before we get anything.

Next step is to get legal advice and sue for breach of contract. 13 weeks is well and truly breached.

I’m out of pocket nearly 1/4 of a million. Have spoken with chch depot builder. Christchurch yard closed. Truck and trailer not registered since september. Builder has has no money for materials for nearly two months. Podular/Ilan won’t pass over my money for windows order or roofing iron order. Or anything. Same with all builds. Builders are still getting paid while off work at home. like all the office staff in Auckland. Driving the company into the ground. Since Ilan became 95% shareholder a couple of months or so ago he has withheld all funds for our builds. He says they are trying to sell to an overseas company. This has been confirmed to me by both Charles and Ilan . It hasn’t happened. Lies? smokescreen. Money going overseas?!! who knows. Can’t trust anything they say. Ilans letter to clients stating his investment would help speed our builds. The reality is he has frozen funds and abandoned our builds. No updates as promised. No infomation. So no funds going out for about 2 months yet they are still giving out quotes to interested parties. Check out Director Charles Innes (now minority shareholder at 5%) face book site to recruit buyers. Website still operating with estimates. They moved chch build site recently as they had to vacate previous site due to upaid rent. Likely the same with Rotorua. It was not to speed up conscent process as claimed to clients in chch. Or to consilidate in Hamiltion I don’t believe. The directors have a history of insolvency and bankruptcy. Check out online details for them. No communication. No build. I have no money refunded, none going into build or no home. Don’t sign up whatever you do. They lie glibly. As do the sales staff. Alley telling me all the builds are running smoothly when I questioned her. Hadleigh to say all building supplies are locked down when I signed up. This fact denied by the chch builder. OMG. How can these workers support them. Ph 0210522002 .

I’m out of pocket loads thanks Podular. Have spoken with chch depot builder. Christchurch yard closed. Truck and trailer not registered since september. Builder has has no money for materials for nearly two months. Podular/Ilan won’t pass over my money for windows order or roofing iron order. Or anything. Same with all builds. Builders are still getting paid while off work at home. like all the office staff in Auckland. Driving the company into the ground. Since Ilan became 95% shareholder a couple of months or so ago he has withheld all funds for our builds. He says they are trying to sell to an overseas company. This has been confirmed to me by both Charles and Ilan . It hasn’t happened. Lies? smokescreen. Money going overseas?!! who knows. Can’t trust anything they say. Ilans letter to clients stating his investment would help speed our builds. The reality is he has frozen funds and abandoned our builds. No updates as promised. No infomation. So no funds going out for about 2 months yet they are still giving out quotes to interested parties. Check out Director Charles Innes (now minority shareholder at 5%) face book site to recruit buyers. Website still operating with estimates. They moved chch build site recently as they had to vacate previous site due to upaid rent. Likely the same with Rotorua. It was not to speed up conscent process as claimed to clients in chch. Or to consilidate in Hamiltion I don’t believe. The directors have a history of insolvency and bankruptcy. Check out online details for them. No communication. No build. I have no money refunded, none going into build or no home. Don’t sign up whatever you do. They lie glibly. As do the sales staff. Alley telling me all the builds are running smoothly when I questioned her. Hadleigh to say all building supplies are locked down when I signed up. This fact denied by the chch builder. OMG. How can these workers support them. Ph 0210522002 .

Sorry to mention this but I would start doing a routine check on the companies register for these guys. It might be prudent to get in first if they look like they’re going down and it may give you some indication as to how hard you’ll need to fight to get your money back.

sadly it seems there are a number of people in your situation

I know Janice no longer works there so that’s a dead email. Try Charles Innes other company, Sanders Sheds as a point of contact. At least they answer the phone

I’d be interested to hear more if you have more information and are willing to talk about it. PM me 02102614278

Yea, happy to share more, people need to know to avoid these guys. I know of trades that have been trying to get paid for well over 3-4 months. Customers still not getting ccc a year after house being built. I understand they got booted out of the chch factory due to not paying rent. Basically running week to week it seems

Give me a call whenever you’re able. Cheers.

I worked for Podular as well in their Christchurch factory. Something felt immediately off from the day I started. Can confirm unpaid subcontractors, staff redundancies, corner cutting, company run by a bunch of clowns. Chch factory now closed as far as I am aware. I would say they are almost certainly going under.