California Surveyors Forums

Are there any drawbacks to leaving negative reviews about contractors who don't pay you online? It's a so small that it's not worth much of my time but I feel people should at least know that they weren't paying.

I'd turn him in to the Contractor's Board but that almost means nothing since most people don't check it and the amount is so little that he'd probably get a slap on the wrist.

We've got local land surveyors here that have been disciplined multiple times and still seem to go unscathed since the public NEVER checks the discipline statuses.

Build zoom has reviews for contractors.

A contractor once told me "I don't care what it costs I will sue to get my money, nobody gets a free ride."
That is my motto also, I am 4-0 in small claims court. Was it worth the effort - no, but the client had to pay and that is the satisfaction.

The weird part is that the contractors showed up the night before the court date with a certified check including court costs. If they were gonna pay why add to the amount.

If you don't hold them to your contract terms they will just do it to other surveyors also. Suing will send a message. Maybe what LB did to the guys he sued was enough to teach them to pay their subs. Probably not though.

Eric,

A few years back, our neighborhood road association hired a contractor to regrade our gravel road and to pay particular attention to some potholes that we had filled but which kept coming back. Part of the scope was that they would repair the potholes by digging into the gravel surface, regrading and recompacting.

The job initially looked good, but they neglected to fix a couple of the worst potholes, merely filling them with poorly compacted gravel. It became obvious in only a few days when the potholes began reappearing at the specific locations that we had shown them the potholes of greatest concern.

Initially he refused to return and correct the work. He refused to take our calls. We threatened to file a complaint with the contractor's board, and that letter got no response.

A day or so after we received a letter from the Board that they had opened an investigation, the contractor contacted us and asked when would be a good day for him to come and make the repairs.

The cost to have someone else come out and just fix the remaining potholes would have been around $500.

Apparently the contractor;s board isn't as understaffed and doesn't have the backlog that BPELSG has had. The response was quick and effective.

If you have a written contract and all the other documentation you need to show that he didn't pay, file a complaint. See if it works. Your effort will be in filling out the form and making copies.

Thanks everybody.