Paid the Contractor $200K and Only 15% of Work Done
Posted May 08, 2026 in Media
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Ideally, there’s going to be some type of contract involved, right? So, your options are going to be tied to a contract. You know, you also have the basic tort law options through construction defect litigation outside of the contract should you go that route. If all that money was paid upfront to a contractor and the work wasn’t done and the money isn’t being properly refunded and a termination is happening, that’s a whole different ballgame. In that case, you may have a civil theft claim, you know, trust fund
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claims, you have misappropriation of funds to other projects. You know, you start to see some squirrely behavior from contractors. And if you feel that in your gut that something’s off about it, it probably is. you need to give us a call because we have the experience and expertise in this stuff and we see it all the time. And if even if we don’t, we have expert consultants who we work with who do and they can help kind of untangle the mess and help you understand what happened, how much
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you’ve been damaged, and what the remedies potentially are. So, just keep your ducks in a row, organize your facts, organize your evidence, keep all text messages and emails in a nice clean folder. Um, keep all of your pictures and videos of the project, your timeline, keep that all ready to go and organized so that when you do turn it over to a law a law firm, it doesn’t take us as long and therefore as many billable hours to sort through it all and make sense of.
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