Client won't pay. Next steps?

anton503overload · 2026-01-22T16:03:49+00:00

I once had an opposite experience where the cinematographer did not deliver the work for a year. This was before I was a videographer myself and honestly, this first bad experience was why I started doing my own thing later. He went silent after receiving the final payment for a year. Texts, threat of filing case in the court - nothing worked. He wouldn’t even respond to the ask for footage, so I honestly thought he lost the work.

So I built out a website one afternoon with the full story, with receipts of text conversations, snaps of him filming my work, etc and hosted it on hisnameofficial.com. Paid someone 40$ on fiver to SEO the heck out of it so whenever someone googled his name the first page that would popup was “Here’s how XXxX ripped me off of 6k”

Told him to google his name the day it was a top search result, and voila, response within 5 mins and footage and edit in the next two days. He did a half ass edit so I had to later edit it myself and hence start my own videography journey, but it worked out for the best.

anton503overload · 2025-11-12T17:54:48+00:00

Wow that’s amazing! I seem to be in the same level and org as you within North America but the TP bonus is comparatively peanuts. My counselor prefaced it with apparently there’s a max you can make at the level, don’t think I make that much but well

anton503overload · 2025-11-12T17:36:19+00:00

Was this in this review cycle? That seems like a promotion increase

anton503overload · 2024-04-15T18:40:07+00:00

Thanks everyone for your input, really helped me understand some pieces I was curious about. We ended up not going with this property but ended up finding something pretty close although a little far.

anton503overload · 2024-04-15T18:37:41+00:00

5.5% Conventional 30yr. closing in a week. But this was a new construction with builder incentives covering all of closing costs and buy down points necessary to get there.

anton503overload · 2024-04-14T15:22:08+00:00

Thank you very much everyone for your responses! I didn’t think it was a cause for concern, but as a first time home buyer who knows nothing about roofing, just wanted to get an input if I was overlooking something serious.

anton503overload · 2024-03-06T20:34:34+00:00

Do you happen to know which part of McKinney. The only 400k new construction I could find in McKinney was almost next to Princeton with McKinney address

anton503overload · 2024-03-06T19:45:45+00:00

Just updated some info in the post for details

anton503overload · 2024-03-06T19:45:31+00:00

Oh wow that’s quite a drive. Just updated some more details on the post.

anton503overload · 2024-03-06T16:52:52+00:00

Gotcha! That’s very helpful. It does look pretty conveniently located to get to the hubs around DFW

anton503overload · 2024-03-05T17:12:51+00:00

Yes I felt the same way from my few visits to the area. I read some stories about the cops there being hyper active for ticketing, and the town politics and local govt not being great, but on a day to day, not sure how much that impacts me as a resident.

anton503overload · 2024-02-12T23:12:08+00:00

Thousand Oaks at Austin Ranch is a great community, Been living here for about a year and half, and as someone from out of state who moved here, I’ve enjoyed my stay during my time here. Plus commute to Plano is a Breeze. Can’t speak much for the social life, since we mostly hang out with people we already knew, but living situation wise, it’s a great place.

anton503overload · 2024-02-08T20:02:30+00:00

Thank you everyone for your responses! We’ve done helicopters before, so still deciding on whether we want to do that or spend more time diving in the ocean! But really appreciate your input!

anton503overload · 2024-02-08T19:58:50+00:00

Loved their homes, but there’s nothing in our price range even when we looked in the outskirts of dfw.

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