Construction Issues Facing Florida Homeowners
Tilden Law focuses its efforts on assisting Florida homeowners to recover restitution when financially harmed by unscrupulous home contractors.
Tilden Law Helps Florida Homeowners
Our typical client has hired a licensed contractor for construction services on their residence and has suffered a financial loss due to the contractor’s actions in one or more of the following three ways:
- Committing mismanagement or misconduct in the practice of contracting that causes financial harm to a customer. Financial mismanagement or misconduct occurs when:
a). Valid liens have been recorded against the property of a contractor’s customer for supplies or services ordered by the contractor for the customer’s job; the contractor has received funds from the customer to pay for the supplies or services; and the contractor has not had the liens removed from the property, by payment or by bond, within 75 days after the date of such liens;
b). The contractor has abandoned a customer’s job, and the percentage of completion is less than the percentage of the total contract price paid to the contractor as of the time of abandonment, unless the contractor is entitled to retain such funds under the terms of the contract or refunds the excess funds within 30 days after the date the job is abandoned; or
c). The contractor’s job has been completed, and it is shown that the customer has had to pay more for the contracted job than the original contract price, as adjusted for subsequent change orders, unless such an increase in cost was the result of circumstances beyond the control of the contractor, was the result of circumstances caused by the customer, or was otherwise permitted by the terms of the contract between the contractor and the customer.
- Abandoning a construction project for more than 90 days; or
- Signing a false statement claiming that the work is bonded, that all payments to subcontractors have been made, or claiming to have provided certain worker's compensation and insurance protection.
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Attorney N. Fleetwood Tilden fights to recover money for homeowners throughout the state of Florida.
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