You find yourself looking at a half finished or poorly constructed home improvement project following an unscrupulous contractor. At this point, you need to take a full assessment of the damages. Get the contract and the project documents out to identify the core issues. Hopefully, you didn’t pay the bad contactor upfront for any unfinished work. Be prepared, you are going to struggle making good on bad work, while you locate a new contractor to finish the project to your expectations.
Every homeowners who has gone through a terrible home improvement project, feels your pain. In order to restore peace again, there are steps to take before you contact the state or local contractor’s board. In some state’s the attorney general’s office will …show more content…
• Letters and notes to show you attempt to make contact or resolve the issue.
If you hired an unlicensed contractor, you are on your way to small claims court. If the case goes to small claims court, every state has a limit for settlements. You can represent yourself in this case. The judge listens to both parties before ordering resolution. Because there are limits, you may have to settle for less following an unscrupulous contractor.
Depending on the monetary amount, you may want to consider contacting an attorney for legal advice. The security of hiring an attorney legally binds the contractor to a lawsuit. If the contractor fails to show, some state contractor boards have a recovery fund for this reason. Even better news, the reason you secured a bonded contractor is recovery for failure to complete the work according to the contract.
New Contractor Concerns
Take all of the hard lessons learned from the previous contactor and apply them to the new home improvement planning. Make the time to sit down with the new contractor and discuss not rant the problems from the previous contactor. Most contractors are as skeptical of taking on second hand jobs as you are with hiring a
Every homeowners who has gone through a terrible home improvement project, feels your pain. In order to restore peace again, there are steps to take before you contact the state or local contractor’s board. In some state’s the attorney general’s office will …show more content…
• Letters and notes to show you attempt to make contact or resolve the issue.
If you hired an unlicensed contractor, you are on your way to small claims court. If the case goes to small claims court, every state has a limit for settlements. You can represent yourself in this case. The judge listens to both parties before ordering resolution. Because there are limits, you may have to settle for less following an unscrupulous contractor.
Depending on the monetary amount, you may want to consider contacting an attorney for legal advice. The security of hiring an attorney legally binds the contractor to a lawsuit. If the contractor fails to show, some state contractor boards have a recovery fund for this reason. Even better news, the reason you secured a bonded contractor is recovery for failure to complete the work according to the contract.
New Contractor Concerns
Take all of the hard lessons learned from the previous contactor and apply them to the new home improvement planning. Make the time to sit down with the new contractor and discuss not rant the problems from the previous contactor. Most contractors are as skeptical of taking on second hand jobs as you are with hiring a