I was working a residential bathroom remodel, the contract was for 22627.01, including tile cost when selected and with change orders and additional work, verified through emails and verbal change orders the total became 27752.78, I was paid intermittently total of 13000. when it came to 1 more day of work to just knock out a very small punchlist, the night before I asked for 10000 and allowed him to hold a retainer of 4752.78 until the next day when i completed the job and he was happy. He denied the 10000, wrote a check for 2000. then the next day, I was told that I was not allowed back to the property and that my workmanship was unsatisfactory. Then he offered 2900 only if i signed a letter of dissolution. Hes now threatening to file fraud with L and I. all the supposed poor workmanship was the things I had on my punchlist, The bathroom is absolutely beautiful, Ive showed pictures to alot of people and everyone agrees that its a great bathroom and the amount of work I put into it is close to 300 hours. Throughout the process, there was never a single complaint and his wife even said multiple times that with my work skill and knowledge of processes and supplies I should have my own improvement show or broadcast on youtube. But the day before it was time to settle up, my work all of a sudden was unsatisfactory. pictures are up on my website. www.waunatile.com under a.d.a. compliant remodel. this guy owes me almost 13000 and all my prices are completely justified, hes making up prices for my business, what do I do, I have 400 to my name as all I had went into this project....Read More
In this situation: I am the subcontractor performing $30,000.00 worth of work Property is on a church property and along a shared driveway I am hired by a general contractor The customer is Dish Network Scope of Work is to install underground conduit from a vault in the ROW to a cell tower site located 1,000 ft away on church property I am assuming that you cannot lien anything on property since the work is performed in the easement? In this situation would the $12,000 contractor license bond be something I could go after due to failure of payment? could i file a lien on church property or cell tower for payment issues? could I purchase a payment bond for this project?...Read More
Does a subcontractor on a non owner occupied remodel that contracted for $10,000 materials and labor directly with the prime contractor have to provide the model disclosure to the owner? If not; it appears this subcontractor does not have to provide ANY notice, correct?...Read More
I am a sub contractor that completed a job over a month ago and the customer only paid 50% of the invoice and now he is not getting back to us....Read More
Inlive in washington state. half way through a job the home owner now refuses to allow us access to the job and is not letting me get my tools that had been left on the jobsight. he clearly have breached the contract so what do i do now
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I am a material supplier to a GC on a commercial project. If the GC and Owner are the same (same mailing address, different company names) I was under the impression a pre lien notice was not needed. We are having a tough time getting final payment so I'm looking at filing a notice of intent to lien, but want to make sure we actually have lien rights. I was instructed to go ahead and file a pre lien notice now just incase I was misinformed (which would only protect the last 60 days from pre lien notice date)....Read More
We are a lumber material supplier and have a new customer who is a prefab home manufacturer that we will be supplying some material to. In Washington State in order to have lien rights, the product must be supplied to a licensed and bonded contractor. Our customer does not have a contractors license. They are not acting as the general contractor either. There is a licensed and bonded contractor running the job. Because we are not supplying the material to the general, do we have lien rights? Thank you...Read More
I have contractor that subcontracted my concrete business to do $20,000 in work. The work was completed in December and since that time he has been giving us the run-around on payment. He has used every excuse under the sun admitting owing the money, but having financial difficulty, health issues, etc....
At this point we are done with the excuses and need him to pay in full or we are going to have to take legal action. I would like to know if there is a standard format for an intent to lien letter we can use to light a fire for him before we have to go to court. Is this something you can help me with? It would be much appreciated.
Thank You,
Heather L.
Red Line Contracting LLC...Read More
In Washington, we are required to file our lien within 90 days after our last day on the job. Typically, invoices are partially paid within 30 days by the insurance company (undisputed amount) and the remaining discrepancy will be the basis for our Notice of Intent to Lien.
My question is, at what point during the 90 days should we be sending a notice of intent to lien to try and spur payment by either the insured or the insurance company? Preferably we would like to be paid by the insurance company to avoid negative reviews from the customer.
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I have been working under the table and not been paid after the work is done. I am owed roughly 2 grand for the work i did on renovation and restoration of two properties. I was promised by the property owner that he would pay me such amount for each stage of work yet demanded a rush on the work and now that the work requested is done. He won't pay me what im owed. I have multiple people aware that i did the work and still have keys to the property. Yet the owner was adamant about not having any paperwork or contract other than verbal agreements. I did however take pictures and some video of the before and after work on a few parts of the buildings such as sheetrock, wiring, and painting. Am i still able to file for a lien and if so what and how should i go about it? ...Read More
We are an aggregate and ready mix supplier in Washington state. If we deliver material to a property and the property is sold within our 90 day lien window, do we still retain lien rights to the property?...Read More
We were hired on as an electrical subcontractor. On a remodel that was supposed to take 6 weeks but turned into a year. We had an original contract for a few rooms in a residential property but the home owners asked our GC to add more to our original contract so there was a change order, then another contract for a panel change, then another change order but a verbal agreement that at the end of the project we could turn in all the change orders. Well the supervisor employee of the GC who made the verbal agreement got fired at the end of project 2 days before we agreed to send in the remaining change orders. We explained to the new supervisor employee of GC our agreement with the fired supervisor and he said that if it was never in the original contract then we needed to take the bill to the home owner. We reached out to the fired supervisor who verbally asked us to do the change orders and he signed a statement stating that he gave the approval for the change orders. Since getting that signed we have tried contacting the GC. He has ignored our emails, calls, and text which forced us to send a notice of intent to lien. That too has now been ignored. So, I reached out to the home owner while being ignored by the GC and let them know the situation. They informed me that they had paid the bill in full to the GC and that we needed to discuss the matter with the GC. We reached back out to the GC with still no reply, we sent the home owners a notice of intent to lien that was ignored, sent the home owner emails explaining our situation and it was ignored. I need legal advise on moving forward. We cannot afford to not be paid for the materials and labor we put into this project. Thank you so much for your time. ...Read More
We did 3/4 of work, plus many extras when we were told to leave her property. The owner refuses to pay or respond to our requests for payment...Read More