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I am property owner where my contractor walked away from the job introducing an un-approved change order. He has already collected after collecting 85% of final payment from 7 milestones but only completing 75-85% of each milestone. At the final he introduced a change order for the work done in 4/5th milestone and 2.5 months before whose payment got denied by us. When we told him to complete the paid milestone job first he left the work (threaten many times before to quit the project too). We paid 7 milestones 100% payment in good faith but we don't cheated and now we don't know how to proceed. If we sue him, we will end up spending more than he owes us. Small claim court is to less amount. Our project is stopped from last one month and we don't know what is best way.
CaliforniaI am a sub-contractor hired by the General Contractor for a residental HVAC job. We finished 99% of the work, then the General Contractor was fired. No one has paid us. I filed the Preliminary Notice LATE, and now I am getting ready to send a 10-day notice. I am in California.
CaliforniaI am a property owner where my contractor walked away from the job introducing an un-approved change order. He has already collected 85% of total payment from 7out of 8 milestones but only completed 75-85% of each milestone work. At the final stage he introduced a change order for the work done in 4/5th milestone and 2.5 months before. That change order was never known to us and never approved so its payment got denied by us. When we told him to complete the paid milestone job immediately he left the work (He threatened many times before to quit the project too ---red flag but we were stuck with a contract). We paid 7 milestones 100% payment in good faith but we got cheated in return and now we don't know how to proceed. If we sue him, we will end up spending more than he owes us. Small claim court is too small an amount to cover. Our project has stopped for the last one month and we don't know what is the best way.
CaliforniaI'm A General Contractor. Another General Contractor wants to hire me to manage the construction of several custom homes he is building. I would be managing the sub contractors and over seeing the quality and completion of the homes. What type of contract should I use? Thank you, Mike Evans
CaliforniaHello, My name is miguel, I have a customer who is always looking for excuses not to pay for acme services on a public job,
CaliforniaI am the property owner of my residence in Palm Springs, CA and I hired SuperNova, / Norell Walker as my contractor to work on the landscaping and yard of my house. The total was $32K and he required that i pay him 2 payments total of $25K prior to the work being completed. This is for outdoor concrete pours, overlays and turf/rocks installation.
We started the job on 4/4 and his subcontractor has not returned since 4/20 and I am left with a job about 40% done ($15k worth of work) and have paid already 78% of the project fee. I have attempted several times for weeks to contact the contractor and he has been avoiding my calls/emails/tests. He denies that I have paid him and he claims he has paid his subcontractor already. This contradicts what his sub has told me which is that Norell still owes him half the money.
Furthermore, this contractor has previously been in trouble with the SEC for fraudulent activities, selling penny stocks in a scam company based out of Long Beach. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2017/34-81003.pdf
I am looking to recoup my losses of $10K because I had to hire another company to finish and fix the work they did.
Looking to send them a lien but if this site is not right, please advise if there are other companies who can help me in this situation.
Thank you
CaliforniaI'm an electrical contractor who has an opportunity to work for another contractor in buildings where they already have a relationship with the building/property management/owner.
If the contractor is unable to pay us, I want to be able to collect from the property owner, even though my contract will not be with the owner.
I'm looking for specific language we can insert into our standard contract to ensure we can collect from the property owner if it comes to that.
Californiaif the construction employee of an unlicensed contractor sued a wage lawsuit against the homeowner, would the homeowner be liable to pay for the unpaid wages even if they gave full payment to the contractor already?
CaliforniaWe are a mitigation company that frequently performs work for property managers of multi-family buildings. Can we file a lien if our work authorization is signed by a property manager and not the building owner?
CaliforniaWe filed a mechanics lien, the owner doesn't care, he said he will pay us through escrow once the house sells, can I send an invoice to the escrow company and add additional late fees and the cost of the lien that I had to do?
CaliforniaI did a job for a customer, he told me to stop work so I did.
Now he’s suing me for not finishing!
CaliforniaWe are installing an elevator for $38,000. The contractor has asked for a payment schedule of $17,000 up front, $14,000 when elevator is delivered, $2000 at completion of site of install, and $5,000 at completion. This seems in violation of California’s 10% down. However, the contractor has excellent BBB rating, good reviews, and has a valid California license. What lien waivers should I obtain and at what point?
CaliforniaI was an investor on a rehab project. The Owner on Title to the property to be rehabbed was also the Contractor. He never completed the job 4 years ago and was incarcerated shortly after only starting the rehab project(he has been in jail since). I was in litigation for 3 years on a Quiet Title Action on the property in order to gain Title. That case fell apart and was dismissed due to Lawyer Malpractice. I sued in Small Claims for a Judgement in order to obtain a Lien. I recently lost. I am trying to exhaust all possibilities in order to have a Lien placed on this property.
CaliforniaWe have a fraudulent contractor unlisenced at that and has taken 50% up front and failed to deliver the carpentry. Will not let us see it and now wants all the money or he will lien the property that he has not done any work in? How does this work? aside he is a corporation and takes advantange breaking all the rules of a contractor.
CaliforniaOur contractor agreed to a time and material job. Three months into the work he said he'll need 15% on top of time and material or he won't be paid for the job only his crew will be paid. We have signed no agreements with him and he is gaslighting us saying we forgot about that percentage, even though for sure it was never discussed. We have taken on the work of hiring and communicating with all subcontractors and arranging for them be on the project. Furthermore, he asked for that 15% in cash, so " I can pay my guys a tax free Christmas bonus." Is this a fair practice?
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