[QUOTE=Audiofn;3992528]Ok guys I know this is not boat related but I need to get the word out on this guy.

I have over the last few years done a number of jobs with this Chris Challof from CMC Systems in Dover, MA. Every time a job finished there would be a balance owed. Then the next job would come in and he would promiss to make good on the end of that job... You know how this story goes... The old rob Peter to pay Paul.


Pantera has been doing this for decades. Good luck getting your $$$

Slap a lien on every house where you worked and not paid. I know it sounds ugly but that's what a guy I knew in the ac business did (he got screwed by the builder). Amazing how quickly he got paid once the home owners found out.. not 100% but better than 75%

I install large home automation systems. Control lighting, camera's, HVAC, TV, Theater systems...

Thanks for the advice guys. Looks like I am going to have to legal up. It sucks because all I asked was for him to work this out with me. Hell even set up a payment plan. Now I am going to have to spend money to try and get what I worked for.

Wobble the problem with that idea is that Massachusetts only gives you a very small window to file a lein. There also has to be certain documentation in place. I had never been one to do contracts and in this case it is going to perhaps bite me in the ass. Also a number of these customers are now hiring me directly so I don't want to mess that up. We shall see.

I have always hired nice ethical lawers in the past to help me out with stuff like this. This time I am looking for a pit bull! I want him to feel my pain.

A baseball bat and cement shoes???

If only...

Happened to a concrete guy I know the same way, he was pouring basements and drives for a builder, builder could not pay him when he was done so concrete guy had to sign off to the bank/homeowner that he was paid other wise the builder could not get his final check from bank and ever pay him. it progressed to where the builder got paid for a house and paid him for the concrete from PREVIOUS house. As time went on the builder got further and further behind to the point he was owed concrete guy 100,000$+ then bottom fell out of the housing market and, builder went bankrupt, never did collect and went bankrupt. He now drives semi out in ND in the oil fields, sucks, hope you can collect but doesn't sound good!!

Exactly how my friend in the AC business got screwed, however the market was stronger here and the liens worked.

People like this give the real estate/construction business a bad name, what a POS, I was in the business for thirty years and was lucky enough to only get burned a few times and they were fairly small amounts, but I made sure that everyone in our town knew what a POS these guys were, so at least I got satisfaction that they couldn't do it to someone else, sounds like you're doing what you have to do, talk to a attorney and see if you still have lien rights, but make sure it's gets out the he's a POS, good luck.

Man up, knock him out of his shoes... Trust no one!