What to do if I have a roofing business and I bid on a job but there ended up being some extra work and in the end the customer didn’t want to pay the extra?
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What to do if I have a roofing business and I bid on a job but there ended up being some extra work and in the end the customer didn’t want to pay the extra?
I sent my crew to do the roofing job. When the job was done I sent him an invoice and he only wanted to pay for the amount that I told him was an estimated bid. He sent me a check that said in the memo line “paid in full”, which when I cashed it I wrote over the memo “not paid in full” and wrote my initials. I was saying that I was not agreeing with the “paid in ful”l memo but I had to cash the check because I had to pay my workers. I took him to court and I just recieved the court papers staing that it was in the defendents side because I cashed the check that said “paid”.
Asked on August 12, 2012 under Business Law, Minnesota
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
If you sent a written contract for a set amount for roof work to a client and never got a change order dated and signed by the client for an amount above the contract amount then you are not legally entitled to any amount from the client above the agreed upon contract amount since you are a licensed contractor.
By cashing the check it seems that you may have agreed that the amount paid was payment in full by the client.
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