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The lien property owner is requesting a copy of the invoice the lien was based on. The work was done before the 90 day deadline. Should I send the invoice to him?
South CarolinaI have a contractor who threatened to place a lien on my property due to non final payment.
Contractor finally completed the project in which I was promised in writing it would take one month to complete (contractor was 5 months late). Contractor also stated in writing he would deduct $100 per day for every day he was late in completing the project. I received the final bill and the $100 per day deduction was not included. I explained that to the contractor I was not going to pay the billed amount without the $100 per day deductions; however, contractor is disputing the claim and is now threatened to put a lien on my house.
Can this contractor place a lien on my house for the billed amount/non final payment?
ColoradoGeneral Contractor needs to be paid by the client for services. The bank is paying him but the client owes him for items outside of the bank agreement. The client is not paying the bills. Should the GC file a Stop or Mechanics lien?
WashingtonA residential home builder hired my company to do Audio, networking, burg alarm, cameras. We started work in oct 2018. The ongoing project just finished up. Our last day onsite was 3-16-2020. After the builder made a bunch of changes over the course of the project the homeowner (son of the builder) does not want to pay. I have had no direct dealing with the son. Everything has gone through the builder. He said changes made by the builder to the audio are not what he wanted and refuses to pay for anything. Can I file a lien on the property?
OhioI had a person working on repairing my property after a pipe breaking. There is an insurance claim and he walked off the job. There is no signed contract. I paid him some money in good faith as the claim was being processed. I am not a resident of Maine. This is a vacation home. During the worldwide pandemic he asserted that I was not going to pay him.
MaineWe are the general contractor. This work was not done satisfactorily and we hired another company to correct it. How do we prevent lien from being filed against our client?
Iowareceived a call from Charleston SC concerning a Lien on Earth Fare 200 for $1000. The owner is requesting date the service was provided. which is August 6 2019. What can I tell him as to why it is over 90 days that we are placing the lien. I don't want to say the wrong thing and make a mess of this. We were strung out on payment forever and so are in this pickle
GeorgiaI was hire by a GC to do some drywall and painting for a Residential house he was remodeling for a Customer
Gcc not paying
He keeps telling me he will but then doesn’t on 3 different Occasions
Servies we’re done over a month ago and he giving me the One excuse after another
North CarolinaWhat can be done to assure payment? Being faced with a situation of pay being taken away after I have finished a whole month of work without complaints. What law is there to protect me from this
New JerseyI brought a valued engineering idea to the table saving the owner $200,000 six billings into the job the GC says I must give back the deduct from my job. Here are the numbers
Orig Contract 1.9 mil
VE Contract 1.7mill
New net invoice is 1.7 mil
6 months into billing I the GC for 300K he states that I will only be allowed to bill for 17k because I need to start paying towards my deductive change order and now is a good time to do so. The GC is willing to 17k. If I don't like it I can wait until next billing period.
Is this legal and can he make me pay for monies I never received?
ArizonaOur company has a construction project in Arizona that we have yet to receive payment on. The project was completed over a month ago. We did not file the 20 day preliminary notice for the project. Are we still able to send out a preliminary notice or a notice of intent to lien?
ArizonaWe are a subcontractor on a Federal project. We are nearly done on a $450k contract. The GC has rejected our last pay app of $40k and state they only owe us $5k. They have now revised our SOV (which has been used in 15 previous billings) and removed 5% of all work and listed it as "punchlist". They claim the remaining balance of our pay app will be held and fill the "punchlist" line item they have now created. They have also rejected change orders that we have written approval from them more than 1 year ago. We have had numerous change orders approved but never added to the contract value. We have billed them for those and have been paid, but they never added the costs to our contract value. Now they have contacted our tier sub directly and offered to hire them to complete the project.
Is any of this legal?
VirginiaWe are a subcontractor on a large federal project. Contract value is $450k. We are now over 90% complete and the GC has rejected our latest pay app saying they only owe us $5k of the $44k that we billed. They have revised our SOV, which has been used in all 15 previous pay apps, to include a line item for punch list that did not exist and have taken 5% of the entire contract an added it to that line. This includes all the work in place from the entire project. They also have now rejected some of our change orders. These were never added to our contract value even though we have requested this for over a year. We have emails with them approving the cost and stating they will be issued as a CO. We have added these to the SOV and have been paid for them, but now they are removing those dollars from us which now takes pretty much all remaining money from us to be able to continue to bill. They have also now contacted our tier sub and offered to hire them direct to complete the project.
Is any of this legal?
VirginiaWater extraction was provided by a restoration service, by removing a few gallons of water from a house drain trap.
The house drain trap is similar to a sump pump cavity, but is rectangular, and is about 12" by 25" by 18" deep and not sealed as it's beneath basement floor level. The plumber needed to access the sewer plug located at the bottom of the cavity, and requested the restoration service to remove the standing water. After the standing water was removed, more equipment was brought in. My guess is, the restoration company saw $$$ opportunity with homeowners insurance, by padding the bill to the tune of over $3000. They brought in fans, dehumidifier, air cleaner, and listed cleaning and other services which were clearly not provided and not needed.
This would be analogous to having a few gallons of water in the bathtub, and the solution to removing the few drops of water would be to use expensive equipment over the course of several days, to dry the last few drops of remaining moisture in the bathtub. Of course we are disputing the invoice. What's our best option as homeowners ?
New JerseyNorthwest Steel Fab is a supplier of forged and fabricated material. We supply Subs and GCs with our work. We send out material a lot to Hawaii. What is the best way to know we are protected and will be paid for our work? Right now we strictly have joint check agreements on all Hawaii jobs. Is there anything new on the state of Hawaii you can inform me with?
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