I am a home owner. I did a >$200k renovation on my home. I had a contractor. The work finished in August 2019. We paid all our bills to contractor immediately when we received them. The subcontracted HVAC company sent my contractor an invoice for their work LAST WEEK. Our contractor said “I’m going to let you decide whether to pay them”. He sent us the invoice and said he doesn’t want to be the middle man. I feel like he’s telling us we are legally allowed to not pay, but he doesn’t want to come right out and say that. Or I feel like maybe he’s actually on the hook somehow since this is a subcontractor and doesn’t want to be the one paying the bill. What’s the right thing to do? We don’t have money to pay this bill (because those credit cards from the reno are paid off and cancelled, and hello, covid-19!) Thanks so much