Ok you have a nice job with a signed contract. Supplies and labor all show up, work is progressing as planned. Maybe you got some money up front or maybe you have been paid on a draw or two.
Now it's towards the end of the project, perhaps you?ve done a change. You have faxed in a bill on the 25th or whatever the arrangement is. Now when you call the office/project manager for a check you are told wait until:
The person who cuts the checks get?s back from vacation 2 weeks from now.
Do not call us for a check, we will call you when the check is ready.
The General Contractor hasn?t been paid, so you don?t get paid.
We have to wait until the other trades finish before the office will do a check.
We have to wait for a board meeting, that?s a month from now.
The project manager went on vacation and didn?t turn in his paperwork; he will be back in two weeks.
The project manager has been let go and we don?t have a record of the changes you speak of.
The project manager says that the general contractor put all the money in a CD, if you could just wait 90 days, and I?ve got some other prints for you to look at.
The job came in over budget and the sales man screwed it up and there is just no money for the extra.:grin: I?ll make it up to you on the next job.
The project manager should not have told you to do the change. This is all new to me, what changes?
OK you will need to bring in a waiver of lien that is signed, and then when we (the GC) send the waiver to the engineer, they will release the funds, sooo you get a check soon. Call back next week.
We spent the money, we can pay next quarter. Villages do this all the time.
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How do you get paid? This has to happen all the time.
Do you have your lawyer get involved, first sign of trouble? How much time to you give the GC to pay?
Do you wait until next month, when the person that cuts the checks gets back from vacation?
In the past I have filled out mechanics liens and faxed them over to the GC, sometimes that would get me a check. But that muddies the water a bit.
It is downright annoying trying to get the final payment, retainage, or the last change order.
A few years ago this didn?t bother me so much because things were booming and whenever the GC decided to send out the final payment it was like found money.
How do you ?make? somebody give you a check?
Now it's towards the end of the project, perhaps you?ve done a change. You have faxed in a bill on the 25th or whatever the arrangement is. Now when you call the office/project manager for a check you are told wait until:
The person who cuts the checks get?s back from vacation 2 weeks from now.
Do not call us for a check, we will call you when the check is ready.
The General Contractor hasn?t been paid, so you don?t get paid.
We have to wait until the other trades finish before the office will do a check.
We have to wait for a board meeting, that?s a month from now.
The project manager went on vacation and didn?t turn in his paperwork; he will be back in two weeks.
The project manager has been let go and we don?t have a record of the changes you speak of.
The project manager says that the general contractor put all the money in a CD, if you could just wait 90 days, and I?ve got some other prints for you to look at.
The job came in over budget and the sales man screwed it up and there is just no money for the extra.:grin: I?ll make it up to you on the next job.
The project manager should not have told you to do the change. This is all new to me, what changes?
OK you will need to bring in a waiver of lien that is signed, and then when we (the GC) send the waiver to the engineer, they will release the funds, sooo you get a check soon. Call back next week.
We spent the money, we can pay next quarter. Villages do this all the time.
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How do you get paid? This has to happen all the time.
Do you have your lawyer get involved, first sign of trouble? How much time to you give the GC to pay?
Do you wait until next month, when the person that cuts the checks gets back from vacation?
In the past I have filled out mechanics liens and faxed them over to the GC, sometimes that would get me a check. But that muddies the water a bit.
It is downright annoying trying to get the final payment, retainage, or the last change order.
A few years ago this didn?t bother me so much because things were booming and whenever the GC decided to send out the final payment it was like found money.
How do you ?make? somebody give you a check?
