General contractor resources
What usually goes wrong with a home renovation, what a dispute is worth, and what pursuing one takes. No account, no cost.
What usually goes wrong
Inside the general contractor guide
Renovations and larger projects where the contractor walked away, over-billed, or delivered work you can't accept.
- A project abandoned mid-build
- Change orders that were never approved
- Work that fails inspection
Before you do anything else
What to gather
Most decisive first. Gather these before you contact anyone.
- The signed contract and the agreed scope of work
- Every invoice and proof of payment, with dates
- All change orders, and messages about changes nobody documented
- Permits and every inspection result, passed or failed
- Dated photographs of the work at each stage
- The full message history with the contractor
Work it out
Calculators
What are your options actually worth?
Compare walking away, hiring an attorney, and working with us, using your own figures.
Compare what each route leaves youHow long do you have left to act?
Pick your state and the kind of dispute, and see which deadline applies and how much of it is left.
Check your deadlineHow much of your time would this take?
Everything pursuing a dispute properly involves, and roughly what each step costs you in hours.
Add up the hoursNext