Legal Advice

[loner]

x-2 what you said.

 

[dummy]

If you decide to pursue and get a judgement in your favor, find out where they do their banking and put a lien on all of their accounts. Surprisingly how quick they'll pay when they can't get to their money.

 

[Wingnut]

Obviously you have a lot more faith in judges than I do. Everytime I open the paper lately, I see another judgement coming out of our courts that makes me wonder what qualifications judges need besides an extremely low IQ and evough fiends to vote them in ....

 

[Ozarker]

You're right. But one common thread in most of those cases that make you want to scratch your head is that is is the little guy that comes out ahead and business that loses. In this case, the owner of the deck is the little guy wronged by the business. The business isn't going to win in court after doing damage to the little guys property.

 

[gusg]

Well I have made up my mind what to do after considering all of the good responses I have gotten. I called Behr and it appears that they will help me out to the tune of $400. With the $300 the first guys would have gotten paid I will be $425 in the hole since the job is now going to cost $1125. I asked the contractor who will now do the stripping and resealing what the cost would have been had he done it in the first place. He said that it would have been $600 which is in line with what other contractors bid. That means that I will only be in the hole $125.

Life is too short to get all stressed out about this (as some of you told me) and to go through the aggravation of court. I am just going to have the work done and forget it. It is probably worth the $125 to have learned a valuable lesson.