{"id":20565,"date":"2023-10-13T03:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/?p=20565"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:28:07","slug":"carol-prendegast-of-faux-illusions-makes-your-money-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/?p=20565","title":{"rendered":"CAROL PRENDERGAST: FAUX ILLUSIONS MAKES YOUR MONEY DISAPPEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you&#8217;re looking to faux-finish a room in your home: BEWARE of FAUX ILLUSIONS and owner CAROL PRENDERGAST! She may give you the illusion that she&#8217;s a skilled artist ready to paint your room but there&#8217;s a chance she&#8217;ll just make your deposit disappear! Kris called my show to complain that she paid money up front and got nothing in return. Here are Kris&#8217; own words from an email:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><em>I hired her in the summer of 2015.&nbsp; She gave me a start date of Oct. 19, 2015 (or possibly sooner).&nbsp; However, she continually pushed that day back.&nbsp; By Nov. 2015, I had requested that my deposit be returned, twice.&nbsp; The first time, she refused, stating it was non-refundable.&nbsp; I was in shock!&nbsp; The second time, she agreed to send it back, but not until March 2016!&nbsp; I finally got my money back&#8211;because I took her to small claims court!&nbsp;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kris was luckier than others who had similar experiences. According to Kris, the faux painter has a habit of not starting the work and not returning deposits! \u00a0Kris says Prendergast got very nasty and threatening in her emails &amp; texts.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to faux-finish a room in your home: BEWARE of FAUX ILLUSIONS and owner CAROL PRENDERGAST! She may give you the illusion that she&#8217;s a skilled artist ready to paint your room but there&#8217;s a chance she&#8217;ll just make your deposit disappear! Kris called my show to complain that she paid money up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[176,13,177,178,179,20,180],"class_list":["post-20565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corrupt-contractors","tag-carol-prendergast","tag-cheat","tag-faux","tag-faux-illusion","tag-illusion","tag-money-up-front","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20565\/revisions\/21640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleazebrigade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}