This is a part of a contract that I, after 17 years in the business have run across, and would like to get an opinion on the legalities. I live in the Pittsburgh area.
C. The Company will deduct $100 from each paycheck until a retainer is met in the amount of $1500.00 to be held by the company. The retainer will be returned in full to the Independent Contractor after one full year following the last installation performed by the Independent contractor unless any chargebacks are incurred within this time period, of which the amount owed will be deducted from the full retainer amount....Read More
I just started a new position as V.P of Project Management for a sub-contractor. I have noticed that the company is paying taxes to the state for all product that are bought through a out-of-state manufacturer and installed in a new building. ...Read More
We have a client that is claiming that us remedying their punch list items extend the deadline to file a lien. Can you please provide me an understanding?
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Hires me to come and do all finish work and once I got there to work I started finding his work was the worst I’ve seen in 10+years. I refused to roof it in its condition. I explained to home owner how it should be done and he had lied to them from day one. First but saying material coast was 25,000 on two rooms one 8/20 and other 12/20. Now home owner wants him to leave and I to tear it down and start over. But me and her is both in a contract with him he also adds to my contract after I sign it. ...Read More
The residential building received multiple violations on the property pertaining to us and did not advise us until recently and allowed the violations to accumulate to 40,000 and they are keeping our check they received from our insurance company. How can we go about this?...Read More
I have a customer that asked us to do repair work, he has not paid his bill. we liened the property. now the property owner tells me I can not lien property where the owner did not request the work....Read More
We have not been paid for all work completed. CICs are consistently challenged and disputed. Delays are caused by company, which causes us to lose time and money. And yet they continue to request employees be sent to site. What recourse do we have?...Read More
Contract is typical California/CSLB... Covid happened and school being out, my son had never been left alone at home before. No sitters or nannys available or allowed. This minimized my days at work yet showed up almost daily and worked as long as possible, including weekends. 4 of 10 customers asked me to leave, pack up tools, just short of finishing. First time in nearly 20 years. Embarassed and without payment/profit, this made things Much worse. Snow-balled, then unable to pay employees timely. They left, a couple have retained lawyers for payment. Everything eventually crashed and left me many thousands upside down. These horrible people were shocking in their lack of empathy. Of course the rest of the clients understrood that this was an act of God. These customers have Plenty of money but seemed to be trying to pull a fast one. Looking for an out. Each time I was within a week or even a couple of days from completion. ...Read More
We finished our job in March of 2020 and during an audit realized we did not invoice our customer in full for the remaining balance of $5,188.75 of a $60,119.00 contract.. Are they any state regulations that we have (x) amount of time to invoice a customer by. ...Read More
Interestingly with Google Business there are many ways to see reports based on Google Advertising. When a customer with bad intentions flamed me online in a review, one could see the corresponding drop in phone calls and web visits... and these results continue. This awful person who had offered a glass of wine after work only a couple of days earlier turned on me. It was shocking. more than 80% of her accusations were incorrect and invented and all of this can be proven as I document everything. Her review is still up a year later and Yelp / Google are useless. .They quickly denied removing reviews. According to my research they always take a homeowners side. I'm not even sure that humans ever saw my request for review. These folks have money that are doing this and I see that its not just me. Theres a pattern of tearing people up online. It seems to me this is very illegal. The damage is incredible as nearly everyone sees these reviews. Otherwise I only had stellar reviews that I workd very hard for for nearly 2 decades! Now ruined in an evening, at the hand of a couple of really nasty people. One of whom, by the way, I didn't even work for! Aren't these libel suits worth pursuing if the damage is measureable and can be shown beyond a doubt in court? ...Read More
If I was verbal buying a house and I did a bunch of work to the house cause it wasn't livable and now there saying there saleing the house but they were supposed to contract the house to me can I put a mechanical lie on the house to get my money back in ky...Read More
I'm a subcontractor working out of my home state. The job is in North Carolina and I'm wondering if I need to file an NTO on the job per NC's lien laws. If not paid what are my rights to file the lien if no NTO has been filed? ...Read More
I'm a general contractor on a commercial project. The owner signed a contract/ proposal for the work I performed. I now need to file a lien and a notice of intent. Does the sign contract work for a preliminary notice? The owner is trying to sell the business quickly to avoid paying the contractors. I have finished the notice of intent but I'm wondering if I'm waisting my time? Why would you need a preliminary notice when you cant predict the future? Isnt a signed contract legally binding?...Read More
There are 2 jobs in question, one in the state of NY and the other in NJ. We are a manufacturing company that fabricates custom displays and kiosks and ships them to our customers, the general contractors on the jobs. Our question is what date do we use as the first labor/material furnishing date. In our attempt to research and from the following link provided to us by a Levelset Rep below, it appears this highly depends on state rules and if we provide fabrication work prior to shipment in which we do. So in our case, I wanted to clarify if we should use the date we shipped material or if we should use the date when we first started fabrication work/provided labor or possibly job acceptance date? ...Read More