An Ottawa-area woman says she’s at risk of losing her home, alleging that a dispute with a contractor — now charged with fraud — left her close to $140,000 out of pocket in building costs alone.
Carol Richenhaller sold her house during the pandemic to purchase a small hobby farm in Beckwith Township in eastern Ontario, partly because of the positive impact spending time with horses would have on her daughter’s mental health.
It was a bit of an adventure, selling an income property she planned to use as her retirement fund as the two tried to make “COVID lemonade,” she said.
“It was
