Get Down.......
How many times are you going to ask this fellow to do a simple task and expect a different result?
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
He doesn't get it. period. He doesn't want to diagnose the problem. He wants to stomp his feet and have a tantrum until someone takes his hand and tells him everything will be alright, none of this is his fault. Not from the bad decision making in using a builder not familiar with Stage 2 stuff to his continued resistance in taking advice from experienced guys in how to begin to diagnose the issue(s) and then build a plan to begin addressing said issue(s).
Stop banging your head against the wall and let him spend his big NY money litigating this. That's what he really wants to do, he has said so many times here.
I've never met a lawyer that could make my car run better, but I haven't met all the lawyers out there, yet.
This is no longer a man asking for assistance, but has become a self aggrandizing pity party, that no one really wants to be at.
But then again, it's such a train wreck, we can't help but watch....