how to handle?

[treeman82]

I spoke with the town the other day, the contractor that I worked for was paid early in August. I called the contractor on Friday, they cried again... oh our system is down, our vendors aren't paying, blah blah blah. I told them I want my money. They alleged that they will cut the check by Friday of this coming week, or sooner if possible. I informed them that if I didn't have my money by Friday that I would go to the next level of collections.

Ran into a client last night who is a lawyer, he said that I should send a certified letter to both the contractor and the town threatening small claims court and a lein on the property if payment is not recieved by Friday.

 

[Frank Boyer]

Filing your lean papers is SOP on large jobs. Don't worry about people that don't want to pay, and not working for them again. You should not have to work harder to collect, than you did on the job.