Deadbeat Homeowner

crhras · 2006-09-21T02:05:26+00:00

----------------------------------------------------------------------A friend of mine contracted with a homeowner to perform specificwork over to be completed by September 29th. The pay was to be$6000. He was paid $1500 to start and just about finished the workwhen the homeowner made some excuses and fired him withoutany additonal pay. What a scumbag. My buddy has about 1 dayof work left until he should deserve the balance of the contract butbecause the work is not done the homeowner claims that he doesn'thave to pay.I told my friend to both hand deliver and send a certified letter statingthat he wants access to the property to finish the contracted workor else the full balance of the contract is due.- Has anyone ever been in this situation ?- Do you think my advice is good ?- If he does send the letter it should probably sound as professional as possible.- Is there a standard letter that he should use to notify the homeowner ?- I tried googling and didn't come up with anything.Thanks,Curt

Sep 21, 2006 42 Replies

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taz 19 years ago

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James 19 years ago

Actually to put a lien on a property you would've had to have a contract

----------------------------------------------------- He DID have a contract, albeit an oral one. Certainly, a Lien can be filed on an oral contract.

If he didn't have a Contract, the homeowner would have ousted him from his property the first day he showed up. The owner didn't do that, and allowed him to almost finish the job.

--James--

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