What is wrong with plumbers?

Especially when it is a subcontract from a big box store. The person may be getting $30 for the job so it is simpler to walk away.

Reply to
George
Loading thread data ...

Reply to
bigjim

I would've liked to watch all those girls! In any case, I took the game elsewhere two days later. The future was obvious.

Reply to
JoeSpareBedroom

If it's an all-day job I offer lunch and a beer while they're cleaning up at the end of the day. We did that with two ends of a move some years back. We got some service! What's a pizza or a couple of subs some soda and a can of beer cost?

Manufactured ,as in mobile home or as in factory built (to the same code as a stick built)? A friend had a lower-end factory built house. While there were certainly things about the house I didn't like (popcorn ceilings, etc.), all of the infrastructure looked pretty normal.

Reply to
krw

Most people are OK, but a few will not let you use their bathroom. I once worked in Arizona - 120 degrees in summer. Some people would not give you a glass of water.

Again, most people are OK.

Reply to
Bill

Sure, no problem with following your instincts, but at least let the customer know up front, and don't tell them you're coming back when you aren't, and definitely don't start something and then just leave whatever it is you're doing torn apart and unfinished.

Cheri

Reply to
Cheri

You wrote, "It's not a contract until they actually take your money. Until then, it's just an offer."

Actually that is not exactly true... One can form a contract without payment immediately conveyed. A CONTRACT - An agreement between two or more competent parties in which an offer is made and accepted, and each party benefits. The agreement can be formal, informal, written, oral or just plain understood. Some contracts are required to be in writing in order to be enforced. (2) An agreement between two or more parties which creates obligations to do or not do the specific things that are the subject of that agreement. Examples of a contract are a lease, a promissory note, or a rental agreement.

This term, in its more extensive sense, includes every description of agreement, or obligation, whereby one party becomes bound to another to pay a sum of money, or to do or omit to do a certain act; or, a contract is an act which contains a perfect obligation. In its more confined sense, it is an agreement between two or more persons, concerning something to be, done, whereby both parties are hound to each other, or one is bound to the other. Blackstone defines it to be an agreement, upon a sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing. A contract has also been defined to be a compact between two or more persons.

Contracts are divided into express or implied. An express contract is one where the terms of the agreement are openly uttered and avowed at the time of making, as to pay a stated price for certain goods.

Express contracts are of three sorts: 1. By parol, or in writing, as contradistinguished from specialties. 2. By specialty or under seal. 3. Of record.

A parol contract is defined to be a bargain or voluntary agreement made, either orally or in writing not under seal, upon a good consideration, between two or more persons capable of contracting, to do a lawful act or to omit to do something, the performance whereof is not enjoined by law.

Reply to
The_Critic

HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.