I'm being told a story and I can't understand how she thinks she can save the house. If I'm being told the truth, she claims she has 2 foreclosures. One is from her company they used their house as collateral. She says they called in loan. She also claims she is in foreclosure on her personal mortga...Read More...Read More
Hello we selected an architect to design our house and provide floor plans. However, since initially working with the architect he has not provided any design feedback or helped us on designing. He has asked us to provide for him exactly what we want for him to draw. The contract for this project was s...Read More...Read More
I am currently building a home. We terminated the contract with the builder due to material breaches of the build contract. Now, the bank with whom we have the construction loan requires the old builder to sign an All Bills Paid affidavit, as well as the Transfer of Mechanics Lien document to the ne...Read More...Read More
I am a subcontractor working on a commercial job in Arizona. My GC has terminated my contract without cause- (personal dispute) but the there is already a considerable amount of money already due. The pay app was due April 1st. Although I realize it is not extremely late, I am concerned about the t...Read More...Read More
I am a subcontractor working on a commercial project. My GC and I had a personal dispute, (the GC failed to pay me for 5 months on an unrelated job for the State of Arizona, and my "letter of intent to lien" gave notice to all interested parties of their failure to pay their subcontractor- this resulted i...Read More...Read More
Bay Area GC kicked off public works job and needs to get paid (retention, unpaid scope work completed, and change orders). Is there an alternative to hiring an attorney to guide/submit claim? Or do we need an attorney for this process? Public works agency keeps telling us to 'file a govt claim'. What ...Read More...Read More
I submitted a question on 7/2/18, and received a response from Matt Viator on 7/3/18 (both of which are copied below). My question has to do with the Notice of Termination. Our company never filed a Notice of Contract with the county recorder's office, so I understand that the subcontractor must file t...Read More...Read More
I believe a person was impersonating as a licensed general contractor. When I verified the license in GA, the license belonged to a completely different individual. When I called the provided insurance carrier of the general contractor, the insurance company said the company did not have an acti...Read More...Read More
I am a contractor that did work on a project but client decided not to pay and sent a letter saying that they wish to terminate the contract due to abandonment of the project. The client still owes over $300k...Read More
So I had a question I am General on my own job putting an addition on my house I subbed out all the work to contractors we had an issue get going with concrete took longer than expected now it’s completed for over a month my builder keeps pushing me off week after week for the last week and...Read More...Read More
Ownership has decided to utilize a new General Contractor on a project already under construction. Looking for advice for a smooth transition....Read More
We were hired to do 2 separate jobs from one client. I am a GC but was hired as a sub by a GC. completed the first job (still owes $3800 on that job) started second job, plans were wrong, his plumbing subs did their part wrong ( i had my men fix for free), did extra work, then we disagreed on somethin...Read More...Read More
I am a general contractor contemplating termination of a utility subcontractor with whom I have three existing and ongoing projects. The work has been substandard in many instances and the projects are not being finished on time, per our written agreement. Our contract contains both a default ...Read More...Read More
I built a library-style bookcase for a customer, actually two of them. The first time, built and delivered, she accepted. A few days later, she decides she wants to change the design. I sent her new price to build the new design, we agreed upon a March 17th completion date. I delivered the bookcases to h...Read More...Read More
Client is unhappy with their GC’s pace of work, the GC is still performing, but behind schedule . They want me to take over the job, but the GC has yet to be terminated. What kind of legal risks am I facing from the client AND the GC in this situation?...Read More