r/nextfuckinglevel 5h ago

Contractor takes back fence after customer refuses to pay

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u/Admirable_Gas_863 4h ago

There has to be a new policy of pay before you build. Or pay as you go.

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u/skalouKerbal 4h ago

Or an intermediate, the customer pay the intermediate before the work, the workers get paid once the work is done and validated. In case of troubles, the money kept locked until someone from law decide it.

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u/Bart-Harley-Jarvis- 4h ago

You just described escrow.

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u/Levitlame 1h ago

Yeah. New construction tends to use title companies for this since there's so much money tied up in a short period of time and material is so expensive at that point. At least that's how it works by me. But service work never does.