Business suffers at hands of Con Edison.

A 13 year old whiz kid from Long Island has much to celebrate. She wrote a book. She got it published. She got some good local press on it. Border's Bookstore heard about her and booked her for a book signing. She sold alot of books that night. It's the getting paid part that's turned out to be the hardest.

A woman thought she was hiring a realtor to sell her house, instead he made her file for bankruptcy.

Do you have an extended warranty contract with Repair Tech? Go get it and check. Complaints are piling up about this company and they are no where to be found.

Two sisters accuse East Village Yogurt Shop of stiffing them out of back wages.

Would you know how to spot a Ponzi Scheme if someone approached you with a great investment deal?

When Susie Kim of Staten Island woke up to almost a foot of snow last Monday, March 2nd, she immediately got to work shovelling her sideway. It took her an hour and a half to do finish amd then she headed to her 12-hour shift as a nurse. When she came home to a ticket from the Department of Sanitation, for not having her sidewalk cleared, she called Help Me Howard.

How long can someone get away with taking people's money and never doing the job?

Last year, Pre-K Parents of P.S. 198 in the Bronx paid almost $1,000 for custom graduation sashes. The big day came, but the kid's sashes were a no-show. It's been almost a year, still no sashes and no refund, so they called Help Me Howard.

A woman who thought she was hiring a realtor to sell her house, unknowingly files for bankruptcy instead.

D.E.A. Agents tell a Bronx man to hand over his cash to them.

Having cancer is bad enough. But then to find out your Medicaid coverage got cancelled, very bad. So then Carol DiGrazia couldn't use an ambulette service to get to her twice weekly oncologist visits. Which meant no way to get up and down the stairs by herself. Carol was forced to get creative. But the whole thing has been a pain in the b--t..literally.

A used car dealer takes back the car he sold and keeps the money!

They come at every time imaginable -- morning, noon and night. They come to your home phone, cell phone, your office, even to numbers listed on the Do Not Call registry.

A Queens woman was approached by a filmmaker to use her house for scenes in a movie. But when it came time for the director to pay up, there was a problem. Can Howard rewrite the ending to this script gone wrong?

A Long Island family gets charged early cancellation fee for twelve-year old account.

A local woman borrows money to go back to school to get more broadcasting experience then the school, The Connecticut School of Broadcasting, fades to black. Now what?!?

Searching for a job these days is hard enough. But deciphering whether the position is real or fake can be even more of a battle. So I ask you -- could you spot a fake?

Having trouble making your monthly mortgage payment? Think you want to try to get your mortgage loan modified? Maybe get a lower interest rate? Or even get the principal balance on your mortgage reduced? Be careful. Not everyone who promises to help you, actually can. And be really careful if they ask you for a fee upfront.

A blind man finds his way thanks to the good graces of a Long Island minister.