My contractor has failed to complete the construction of accessory dwelling unit by the contract's deadline. Has not shown up for work in several months and his license has not been renewed. Twice he's promised to come back in the last two weeks to start and hasn't shown up or answered phone...Read More...Read More
We are an MEP consultancy with a satellite office in Hawaii, our project is located in Honolulu and we have completed some engineering work but the project manager is refusing to pay the remaining fee owed to us. What should I do?...Read More
please advise the letter for, if the suspension order is issued to the MC due to his work permet / licence is expired, under nec4, the cost due to claiims raised for the subcontractor and the supplier, the site activities during the suspension period and the accleration cost for catch up the program if the lic...Read More...Read More
i have a customer in hi. i told him the lien would be filed on the 15th of this month if we did not have payment. he said "good luck with that". I now see that Levelset asks for the date of the notice of substantial completion. I don't have that. the levelset notes don't say it is a requirement, but levelset w...Read More...Read More
I am a private owner requesting contractor to do wall repair work. Their fee proposal was provided and they are requesting an upfront payment....Read More
I am a engineering consultant working on a project in Hawaii and we have already sent several invoices for work we have already completed. We received a payment for one of the first invoices and the check bounced for insufficient funds. What should we do? Can we stop work and file a lien without g...Read More...Read More
If there are no lien release forms for the contractors and subs, what protects the owner from requesting more money that what is in the agreement? Or, more importantly, what protects the owner if the contractor doesn’t pay the subs?? Please advise ...Read More
I negotiated a payoff with a worker on home repairs. After negotiation , I payed the negotiated amount with a check the next day ,and after cashing the check he applied it as a partial payment only. How do I get him to clear the debt so as to avoid the court allowing him a lien filing....Read More
We had a contractor do some mitigation work in our home. They were also paid in full to do the reconstruction work. It has been a month and there has been no work started on the reconstruction. Communication is very poor. Often no response to our questions. They state they will start on a cer...Read More...Read More
What do we do if a contractor doesn’t turn in his final draw request even after asking repeatedly for it? Can we “close out” the project without a final draw if the property owner says the project is done 100% and you have inspected to confirm it is close to being done but we haven’t disbursed all the fu...Read More...Read More
I work for a non-union fencing company in Hawaii, and when we work county jobs we make prevailing wages. But lately we have been subcontracted on federally and state funded projects and we are not making prevailing wages, but the other construction workers said that they are making Davis ...Read More...Read More
We are a subcontractor on a "public" job in Hawaii. The General Contractor was terminated from the job. Can we file a Stop Notice in Hawaii? Hawaii law is unclear if this mechanism is possible. Thank you, Patrick...Read More