Sad but true

When you've bought your new home, you're usually thinking about housewarming parties and welcome mats. Not responding to texts about robbery and extortion. Would you pay your contractor $300, just to return some of the stuff he stole? In this true story, a couple in Northern Liberties have had to deal with a situation that is at turns nightmarish and cartoonish. And it gets so much worse. [Philly.com]