Summary: Sierra Builders Inc.

Before I read the chapters this week I looked at this applied learning assignment and from my own knowledge I thought that Sierra Builders Inc. would be committing fraud, but I also thought maybe they might not be committing fraud. My first thought was if Heather and Sierra Builders Inc. had a contact to finish the house build within fourteen months, but there was an interference I thought that “things happen, so Heather should be forgiving to Sierra Builders Inc.” I did not think that Sierra Builders Inc. committed fraud. For example, If Sierra Builders Inc. was working on Heathers house and there was a problem and she had to pay more to take care of the problem then they would not be committing fraud. My other thought was that if Heather and Sierra Builders Inc. had a written contract to finish the house build within fourteen months and the company took workers off the job to work on other job that did not have to do with Heathers house build then they might be committing fraud because they had a …show more content…
In this situation, it does not state whether the contract was written or oral. If the contract between Heather and Sierra Builders Inc. was written, then the contract would still be enforceable. If the contract between Heather and Sierra Builders Inc. was oral, then the contract would not be enforceable after one year. Since, the build for Heathers house was to take fourteen months to begin with it was over one year. So, like I said if the contract was oral between Heather and Sierra Builders Inc. then it would not be enforceable. I think that Sierra Builders Inc. did not commit fraud because we do not know what kind of contract they had with Heather. I cannot say that they did commit fraud since I do not know for sure what kind of contract they had with