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i am not licenced. i am a handyman. i am way past deadline because when they couldn't pay i agreed to take payments. They didn't make the payments. They recently had me come and do some punch out work and said they would pay me if i did. They didn't. Does that now count as the last day i furnished labor? My phone with pics was destroyed so i don't have pictures to show a judge but there are several people i hired to do some specialty stuff that can testify to the work that we performed. Can the court subpeona pics of the finished product? I know how sketchy this sounds. We were friends so i didnt protect myself. I thought they would pay. Their house looks fantastic. So my questions are these: ...Does doing punch out work change the last day of labor provided to that date? ...Do i have to have before and after pics or will statements from several people that worked there fly? ...Is small claims court a better way to go to get around the strict deadline rules? ...Am I wasting my time since i didn't plan ahead and just take the loss? Thanks, Lynda Lyndamylou@gmail.com (i did send a notice to owner)

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Nov 2, 2021
I regret to tell you that punch list work does not start the time to file a lien over again, or count as the last day of work. Nevertheless, a lien isn't the only remedy. Small claims for a regular civil judgment can create a fair amount of pressure to pay. It'll cost you about %500 to file and get service of the complaint, but sometimes, just a letter demanding payment, with a fully filled out draft complaint, ready to file, with a short deadline to respond or you'll file, will get people to pay attention.
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