Hello! I am a subcontractor working under a contractor. I do not do construction work, but provide tree removal services. In order to get paid, I've been asked to provide a sworn statement (in MI) along with my other paperwork. I don't know how to fill it out? I had no subcontractors under me. Jus...Read More...Read More
I had a construction contract in which the government included the payment of taxes. In the end he did not want to pay us. The project was outside the US. This was 2 years ago. I need advice to claim that payment....Read More
On this commercial AIA project since Jan, standard AIA stuff we've seen before, including the conditional lien waiver. Now they want an unconditional waiver in order to get our first payment (after 2 other subcontractors have recently damaged the work we've done and had to fix/ redo). I would like to s...Read More...Read More
A potential client advised she wanted to o an addition to her existing home (in California) but ended up scraping the project once the permits and compliance issues became 'too much'. I am curious what the remedy is in this case if the contractor had already done a significant amount of pre-constructi...Read More...Read More
I am reviewing a schedule of value for a project that does not have a % of the project total assigned to project closeout. I have heard the industry standard is 10% of the overall project is given to project closeout....Read More
We are a subcontractor working at a project and received the waiver of release of liens(MLA appointment). We have submitted 1 pay application and have withheld 5% retainage. Retainage has not been billed out. Do we fill this out before we have received payment or after we have payment in our h...Read More...Read More
We are a small stair company that works as a subcontractor on very large jobs in NYC. We do our best to submit the pencil reqs accurately and on time but if there is an issue or disagreement about payment it gets bounced out and cannot be re-submitted until the following month. It takes a lot of time ...Read More...Read More
When dealing with an owner who has a hard money loan who refuses to give a deposit on a $130,000 job that has a deadline in 4 months how many payments should I require. These payments would be upon completion of certain portions of the project. They also tried to get me to sign a lien ...Read More...Read More
We are the General Contractor on a job with 3 Residential Properties. One is complete and we are working on the other 2. A new Architect has been hired by the owner to replace the original one and he wants Apps for Pay with signatures and ending dates and why we weren't doing this all along. The le...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
We are hired by a contractor to remove snow around Charter pedestals all around the Tahoe Basin. We are currently working in Northstar area and removing snow from approximately 100 locations. Next week, the snow removal for the pedestals could be located in Tahoma, and also have close to 100 ...Read More...Read More
Will a valid Change Order negate a Final Waiver, which might have already been executed for said project? Is the answer the same for all US States?...Read More