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What recourse would a sub-contractor have?

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I recently finished building a custom home. I had a contract with a GC but did not have any contracts with any subs, just bids. None of the subs filed a pre-lien. I paid all the subs directly, the GC did not. The electrician gave me a bid of $27K to provide all the materials/labor to rough and trim out the house except the actual light fixtures. I actually performed 30-40% of the labor and purchased about 40% of the materials for rough in. I paid the electrician $16K in cash at the end of rough in. At trim out I performed 90% of the labor and provide 98% of the materials. My electrician sent me a bill for $8500. I told him this was ridiculous and I wasn't paying him 24.5K for a job where I did a lot of the labor myself and purchased most of the materials he was supposed to. I told him I would give him an additional $1K cash but that was it. He threatened to sue and file a lien on my property. The completion of the project is over 90 days, my COO is over 60 (fighting with the city on a drainage issue held it up) and my recorded notice of completion is over 30 days old. Without a pre-lien and no contract what recourse does he have, if any?

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