Contractor that I worked for was hired to "build" me a house. Since I worked for him, he said he was not going to many make any money on me, he was just trying to help a young family out. We agreed on a set price and began the project in April. Only work that was done by the actual contractors two employees was help me with framing the house which ended up 16k over his estimate and 8k over a bid I got from someone else. Framing was done at the beginning of June. From then on, he and his employees never stepped foot onto the property to do any work. Sub contractors were hired to do HVAC, electrical, drywall and insulation. I did everything else by myself with some help from my family. Halfway thru the project, he told me that we were 30k over budget. He printed off some paper work with all the numbers and sure enough we were over budget but he couldn't explain why. Come to find out when I was looking at the numbers yesterday, he added in random things like siding, soffit etc into the budget which was already paid for when we purchased the lumber/house package. Taking those things he added in out, we are back to the original price we agreed on. We closed on the house almost a year after we started it and he hit me with a lien a couple months after we closed. He wrote up some invoices for things that have already been paid for and filed a lien. Can he file a lien even though he has not done any work on the house since June (2 months after the project started)? All he did was pay the sub contractors that were hired with the loan I got for the house. Thanks!