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Work out what a dispute is worth, what pursuing it takes, and what usually goes wrong in your trade. No account, no cost.
Before it goes wrong
8 hours before, or 32 after
The four steps below are what stops a job becoming a dispute. Below them is everything the library holds for after one has already started.
Before you hire
about 2 hoursA license that is current, a bond that exists, insurance that covers the work, and the complaint record sitting behind all three. Every one of them is a public record, and looking is free.
Before you sign
about 2 hoursThe deposit, the payment schedule, the start and finish dates, who pulls the permit, and what a change order has to look like. The disputes on this site turn on those five lines more often than on the work itself.
While the work runs
about 3 hoursPhotographs at every stage, a dated note of each change, and payments released against work that is actually done. Half an hour a week decides whether a disagreement later is a comparison or a guess.
When it is finished
about 1 hourRegistering the workmanship warranty, keeping the permit and the final inspection, and knowing the date each one runs out. An hour now is what answers a question asked three years from now.
Satisfy Home keeps the contracts, payments, photographs and warranties this half of the library is about. Your first project is free.
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 hoursBy task