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On 7 Mar 2006 07:15:24 -0800, "CanopyCo"
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Get the contract in writing, and make sure there is a clause
in there
where he pays you if the job is not completed in full in X
number of
days, for every day after X days that the job is still not
finished.

That will be the first signal to the contractor that you are
going to
be a very high maintainance customer ... and that he should
turn down
the job.

And not the company owing you, but the contractor personally.

Maybe the contractor could give you $50 000 cash up front ...
and when
the job is done to your satisfaction, you could give h im
back the
50 grand plus the value of the job.

I knew of several guys that start jobs, then stick you up for
more
money to finish them.

That's why you do a reference check.

And it is really hard to find someone to take up a job that
was started
by someone else.

Unless the market is dead and the contractor is starving, It is
going
to be really hard to find someone under the terms you're
suggesting.

Ken

Just cause he's paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get him.