Note: Phil Rashid asked our company for assistance with environmental issues for a site they considered purchasing, we sent standard consulting agreement and requested a retainer. Due to short timeline, a site meeting was arranged, we reviewed the difficulties, and advised him the site was problematic. Information saved him from making a big mistake with the purchase. Rashid knew that as a consulting firm, our counsel, guidance and recommendations are our product for which we were entitled to be paid. Our reasonable invoice (approximately $200) saved his firm over $30, 000 in costs to avoid an environmental nightmare, not including the headaches he would have encountered with legal fees, the property costs, development fees, preliminary engineering fees, and a host of state, federal and local ordinance problems associated with the property, thus probably saving him more than $100, 000. Rashid refused to pay us. He claimed he did not pay for initial consultations. Now we wish he would have ignored our advise. It would've served him right. In my opinion, he is a deadbeat scumbag.