Pam Rotelick says she lost tens of thousands of dollars in her dealings with an Edenwold, Sask., contractor. (CBC)

Former customers of Edenwold, Sask.-based homebuilder Iain Hall say he took their money and left them with broken dreams.

Now, a slew of lawsuits has been filed against Hall, both by individuals and companies. Court records show he is a respondent in at least eight cases.

One of the plaintiffs, Pam Rotelick, hired Hall's company in 2007 to help build her dream home in Buena Vista.

"The company looked viable, they were building houses, they were turning them out," Rotelick told CBC News. "Everything looked good and the company actually collapsed shortly after that with our money."

Rotelick said she was forced to start building the home with herself as general contractor. The house eventually got built, she said, although it wasn't because of Hall.

While she was working on the project, she said, Hall apologized to her and promised to help at a reduced rate. She gave him more money to order windows and doors, but that didn't work out either, she said.

"No money was ever received on these windows and doors," Rotelick said. "They were never ordered and at that point they didn't exist."

She said she's not hopeful she'll see any money from her lawsuit but would like Hall to face some consequences.

"I would really like to be the last person that he does this to," she said.

Her allegations have not been proven in court.

Other families upset

Kevin and Tara Garratt say that three years ago, they hired Hall to build a home east of Regina. What they received was a partially built inferior product and piles of unpaid bills, they said.

Another family, Daryl and Kathy Poelzer, said they put their trust in Hall because he was a local man.

"We hadn't heard anything that he wasn't trustworthy," Daryl said. "But as we got going, the more we heard, we thought, 'Oh my God, what did we get ourselves into.'"

Like Rotelick, the Poelzers said they gave Hall a large deposit. In their case, it was $40,000.

Then they started hearing about his financial troubles and problems with contractors and other families building homes. They said they became worried about Hall's involvement and were forced to walk away from their money.

"We sure went through a lot of hardship," Kathy said.

Hall apology

Hall declined to be interviewed by CBC News, but on Wednesday he released a statement in which he apologized for his actions.

"I truly regret the enormous toll the collapse of the business in 2008 has taken on the parties involved," Hall said in an email. "There were many reasons, some beyond my control, for the failure of the business."

While Hall did not elaborate, he said his own attitude played a role in how things wound up.

"The damage from the business collapse was only compounded by my pride and sense of false hope," his statement said.

According to the corporations branch of the Saskatchewan Justice Ministry, Hall's former company, Town and Country Homes International Ltd., is inactive and has been struck off the corporate registry.