Weasels

So where is the other 345?

Been better off to have stayed home.

 

that sucks

his trailers have tires on em?

 

i was just thinkin swapping yer out for new....lol

i wouldnt even talk to him unless it was thru a lawyer at this point

wait....paper or verbal contract?

 

This kind of crap drives me absolutely nuts! We should be able to call the cops and make them sweat at the very least! Brick, this happend to me a few times in construction too. Turn in a bill for a job completed and get a check for less. When you call them on it they say "well I can't afford to pay that much", so what, I can afford to work for free? What about my costs? Like you, I didn't work for them again. It's stuff like this that keeps the law schools full of future thieves, I mean lawyers. Wait, isn't that redundant?

 

This kind of crap happens in TX all the time. Especially in the construction industry. You can go get a judgment in court, but collecting any money in this state is almost impossible. They can put their assets in kids or parents name or in home they live in and it can't be touched. Occasionally you hear about someone administering some prairie justice, but then they go to jail. Normally cleared by jury in court in small towns. In Dallas, Houston, Austin, etc probably looking at jail time or probation. One of the reasons this area has grown so dramatically. Idiots calling themselves contractors that are just bid takers and thieves.

 

I've ran into that crap several times with my Backhoe and welding truck both.I did a handrail job (as a sub to a general contractor) on a building a few years ago for a ratty contractor...this dude had a bunch of illegals on the job and just oozed slime when you talked to him but D&B checked out so I did the job.Billed him on site and before he paid he wanted me to sign a lien waver...NOT LIKELY,played this game before...then says send bill to his office...I didn't see any money but he sent me lien wavers three different times...I finally got pissed and went to the court house and put a mechanics lien on the multi million dollar property he was building and then called and left a message on his cell vm(he'd quit answering my calls and I knew if I went over there I'd be in jail).....About twenty minutes later (probably long enough to talk to his lawyer) he calls and wants to make a deal and he was sorry for the delay but they weren't releasing the funds to him and he was just fixing to call me to get me paid anyway and blah blah blah.....I made him bring CASH plus I added $550 onto his bill for time lost messing around at the court house,filing fees etc.He was PISSED and I laughed in his face all the way through it seeing as we were in public and I just prayed he would throw the first punch in front of impartial witnesses so I could stomp him.He knew what was up and paid me and when I left that parking lot I thought"Sometimes a guppy really does eat a shark.If a mechanics lien is an option in your state,you may want to use it everytime one of these greaseballs get in your pocket.