I am a rehabber in the Chicago area and have had a nightmare of an experience with Matt Gromczak.

 

In spring, 2011, Matt was introduced to me as a partner of a contractor named Adam. Adam was giving me a bid on a rehab job. Matt later started contacting me directly, "buttering" me up (to win my confidence), and promising he could do the needed work less expensively than Adam or any other contractor. He showed me fire restoration work he had done on a house in the southern suburbs of Chicago and gave me a reference (who "vouched" for Matt).

 

Then, Matt offered me a "business opportunity"--saying that if I became his partner on some fire restoration work (and "advanced him and his company, BMG Development Group & Restoration, money for ONLY a week"--until his expected hard money loan being supplied by some Polish people funded), he would return my money to me within one week and also give me 50% of the forthcoming profits on his next fire restoration jobs. He was very convincing and insisted that he wanted everything "written up" legally. Foolishly, I agreed to his idea. I fronted the money (over $20,000, total), Matt and I signed a detailed agreement, and then Matt signed personal and corporately guaranteed promissory notes for the loaned money. Then, he didn't pay me back as promised! 

 

After I kept persistently demanding repayment of the loaned money from Matt, he finally wrote me a repayment check for part of the money, except his check bounced! I was horrified and panic-stricken! I had lent Matt money that I really should never have lent him (because I was very short on money).  I had done so because I believed him when he promised to return it within 7 days! (Matt is very convincing.) It's now been over a year, and Matt still has not returned any of my money; and of course, he hasn't given me any share of any profits he may have received doing fire restoration work!

 

When Matt's check to me bounced (twice!), I contacted my local police department and opened a criminal case against him. To my surprise, the local detective told me that Matt "had a record" in my town and had used the same scam on another person in my town.  The local detective also told me that the police department in yet another Chicago suburb also was looking for him regarding a similar scam he pulled on yet another person. Then I learned that Matt had also used the same scam on his former partner, Adam!

 

This entire ordeal has absolutely DEVASTATED ME financially and caused me unbelievable stress and anxiety.  

 

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MATT (MACIEJ) GROMCZAK D/B/A BMG DEVELOPMENT GROUP & RESTORATION! HE IS A SCAMMER WHO ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.