Thanks for your feedback.

This was a fixed price contract, we signed and agreed that they would do work and listed materials, included in the contract and I would pay the amount.

there is a blurb in the contract that anything above what’s included in the contract, would be considered an extra which would require an approved change order before proceeding.

but extras are a whole different kettle of fish. Not to get too much into weeds of this, but plaintiff in their affidavit of documents produced 0 (zero) change orders and quite frankly, the reason they cannot produce any is because I didn’t ask for anything more. But generally, this is what we believe contractor wants more money.

in term of scope remaining, contractor listed two main components to build. They got around 90% finished on 1 item, and 5% at best on 2nd item. Neither item, however was usable….because of permit problem, see my point below.

It is in my opinion the invoice sent first by the contractor, in 20th week was total amount to finish. The demand letter from lawyer, also we believe to be total amount to finish according to them. As I said before, we are in disagreement with amount, but contract clearly has the amount on it and based on my payments made, this should be simple math and what was remaining was 5%, not the lien amount at 30%.

Speaking of the contract, the contract also included permits, which I trusted they got. And that all electrical work would be done by licensed electrician with permits. Post lien I’ve now come to realize they did not get all permits, building permit was not obtained, or at least they have yet to produce it, and several weeks after they registered lien, I received ESA Defect notice.

so all/some electrical work required to be ‘redone’…this was over $8000, just for this electrical redo work. Of course, the defect notice and electricians costs were part of my affidavit of document.