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House renovation charges after faulty problems
Horus
Los AngelesRegistered User regular
Los AngelesRegistered User regular
Hello,
I just found out our go-to guy who we had fix my parent's house is charging us for work. This lead to minor roof damage to electrical problems causing minor fire. We had our insurance fix it and my dad payed some of it out of his pocket (insurance will reimburse it).
We informed him of what happen, he didn't send any help nor charged us, until yesterday. He wanted to charge us 200 more what we verbally negotiated.
My sister believes since we never did a contract with him we should just pay what we verbally agreed. I believe we should get cheaper invoice and accept our form of payments. He is a nice guy but coming out of the blue to charge us is a shocker and screwed up. We do not want to take this situation to court or make a big fuss, solve it simple and peacefully just cause our parents will get nervous about this and their health is not at their best atm.
I have no idea what to do, so maybe someone has good feedback about my situation. I want to know if his delay to send us the invoice almost a year later can be useful for us.
Thank you,
I just found out our go-to guy who we had fix my parent's house is charging us for work. This lead to minor roof damage to electrical problems causing minor fire. We had our insurance fix it and my dad payed some of it out of his pocket (insurance will reimburse it).
We informed him of what happen, he didn't send any help nor charged us, until yesterday. He wanted to charge us 200 more what we verbally negotiated.
My sister believes since we never did a contract with him we should just pay what we verbally agreed. I believe we should get cheaper invoice and accept our form of payments. He is a nice guy but coming out of the blue to charge us is a shocker and screwed up. We do not want to take this situation to court or make a big fuss, solve it simple and peacefully just cause our parents will get nervous about this and their health is not at their best atm.
I have no idea what to do, so maybe someone has good feedback about my situation. I want to know if his delay to send us the invoice almost a year later can be useful for us.
Thank you,
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He's got no leverage at all here.
Oh. General Contractor / Home builder here so I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.
By refusing to pay for poor work you're also preventing this from happening to some other person, and making him clean his act up.
2. Never hire anybody to do any work on anything without an invoice or contract in advance.
We are currently getting work done with a contractor. A couple of "upgrades" later (mutually agreed on) and I'm about at my budget for the projects. He's still working on phase one, and we just got failed for the landing of the deck (which was existing, and the person that built it never got permitted for the deck). He now wants me to pay for the fix to get it passed.
Obviously, this puts me way over budget, and I kinda feel that he should have had some idea that this might have happened and given me a heads up. So, is it really my obligation to pay for something he missed in quoting the project? Shouldn't we at least go halves on it or something? How does this impact the fact that I have the other half of the project left?
Any advice would be great.