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My husband and I hired a local company to pour our driveway. We'll call him "Mr. Fix-it". Mr. Fix-it poured our driveway as we agreed, did a good job and we paid Mr. Fix-it the full amount per our agreement.
Today we received a letter from the concrete company stating Mr. Fix-it has not paid the balance of what he owed them. They advised that they will put a lien on our house if the balance isn't paid. The letter said Mr. Fix-it is not returning their calls. They asked in the letter to contact Mr. Fix-it to get him to pay.
I called and advised that they cannot file a lien against our home because the agreement was between Mr. Fix-it and the concrete company. Their agreement has nothing to do with us.
Am I right?
North CarolinaThey did the job, a new roof! However, They damaged My garage door & gutters. Still, not repaired 2 weeks later. I, want repairs done before final payment.
Floridathe contractor and I have had text arguments over the supplier not being paid and over him doing some additional work to finish the deck which I have now finished. the money involved is about $3015 I have contacted the supplier and put them on notice that I think he has not paid them and wont but I have not heard back from the supplier. my guess I will receive a lein notice. I withheld some of the contractors equipment when he would not finish the work a 200 dollar saw. can I file a lien on his personal property if he does not pay the supplier
OklahomaWas sent a notice to intent to file a lien. Floor company over charged me, by stating we had 2200 sq ft, when in reality we only have 2000. They did not finish job but are demanding payment. We have offered to pay for what is fair
CaliforniaI am an owner who hired a contractor without doing due diligence. He sent me photos of work that was totally not in line with my instructions. Being that I am an out of state owner I was unable to visit the jobsite regularly. When I did show up the neighbor asked me if I was going to continue the job as no one had been there for two weeks. But now the contactor is billing me for work he said was done that week no one was there. We do not have a written contract.
New MexicoWe signed with a company to perform some work on our house. The work was completed by a sub-contractor. The original company has now filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the sub-contractor wants us to pay him directly. What should we do?
ColoradoI have a speciality contractor that did some smaller jobs for us. He brought in a statement of work contract that stated he was charging 5 percent per day late fee for any day over the Next 15 time frame. Is this legal? I was told there is a cap on the fee he can charge?
South Carolinai entered into land sale agreement with a client, and agreed to buy my land land because i was under bank loan distress. deposit was done and title released to the client lawyer on undertaking. i felt cheated and breached the contract before 90 days and in the agreement it was stated in case of breach you pay the other party with 10% damaged
we are now heading to arbitration state, what is the likely scenario.
AlabamaIf I file a lien for the amount owed can I add the price of filing, the cost of release, and interest based on the number of days delinquent, or any other cost associated with collecting payment, such as attorneys fees, court cost, ect? Or are the fees solely out of pocket?
OklahomaWe have been using Zlien's services to process liens for non paying customers. However, most of our customers DO NOT own the land where the mobile home sits. They rent the space instead. We are now having to release the liens after the park owners have asked to do so for obvious reasons. Do you have any suggestions on how to best solve this situation? Is there a way for the lien to be placed ONLY on the actual mobile home even if it may be considered personal property rather than real property? We are looking into UCC-1 scenarios, but would rather keep using your services if possible. Thank you.
CaliforniaFinish the job and client is a very picky person who is not satisfied and we are understanding that it has nothing to do with her being satisfied if the work is completed we are to get paid and that is the law in Michigan. Are we correct?
MichiganI am a licensed plumbing contractor in Louisiana. How long is the typical lien process against a residential homeowner? And average cost?
LouisianaGood morning,
This is Soo from Exbon Development Inc. I have a question in regards to how to file a payment claim to one of subcontractors which is not corresponding their labor/material work despite their scope of work. We have a subcontractor which was executed subcontract agreement for CA state public work project. This sub was irresponsible to perform their work, did not correspond with us and unsuccessfully uncompleted their work. Most likely they vanished at site. Due to their incomplete performance, we had to hire another subcontractor to cover their work and process material / equipment costs. Such costs are exceeded their contract amount although we back charged in their contract amount.
Therefore, we would like to file a payment claim to them to collect the owning monies. Is there any effective claim or lien to subcontractor? If so, how are the procedures and how are they effective? Please inform me in detailed information. My email address is soo.chae@exbon.com. Please respond my question promptly. Thank you,
CaliforniaI would like to know if a homeowner breach a contract without your consent and refuse to pay you can you put a lien on their property. Then the homeowner tell you that your service is no longer needed after you did 75% of the job.
MissouriI am a contractor. My customer does not want to pay for completed work on a change order she agreed to as an addition to the original contract. She says the changes cost a lot of money. She knew the total cost in advance and emailed me to ask how fast I could start on the work in the change order. How should I proceed?
Nebraska