court?
Do you want to go to court and maybe split the difference (you have a hardship, some paperwork and emails; she has verbal-agreement-differences and probably a minor schedule b*tch)? or just eat the final payment? She said she'd pay once you were inspected and cleaned up, and you did, so you could offer to split the final billing amount?
I'd try the latter, and if she resists too much, just absolve her of further payments (swear all you like in your office while writing) in writing, snail mail. Sounds like she owes you $3,500? Fairly cheap schooling for the Always Write a Contract lesson. In Mass. here you have to write a contract for a job that size. I would not apologize if you did nothing wrong, just say you wish it could have worked out better and move on.
If you had a contract that you had fulfilled, then you could expect it to be honored in court. Without it, it's a gamble. The end of your sentence that says "...and juggle six other jobs..." makes me wonder if you do feel you shirked her job a bit.
Sometimes life deals you a hit (I'm sorry about your daughter) and you reel from the blow. This sounds like one of those times. By 2019 you won't think of it more than once or twice a year (that's how long it took me).
Jim
Do you want to go to court and maybe split the difference (you have a hardship, some paperwork and emails; she has verbal-agreement-differences and probably a minor schedule b*tch)? or just eat the final payment? She said she'd pay once you were inspected and cleaned up, and you did, so you could offer to split the final billing amount?
I'd try the latter, and if she resists too much, just absolve her of further payments (swear all you like in your office while writing) in writing, snail mail. Sounds like she owes you $3,500? Fairly cheap schooling for the Always Write a Contract lesson. In Mass. here you have to write a contract for a job that size. I would not apologize if you did nothing wrong, just say you wish it could have worked out better and move on.
If you had a contract that you had fulfilled, then you could expect it to be honored in court. Without it, it's a gamble. The end of your sentence that says "...and juggle six other jobs..." makes me wonder if you do feel you shirked her job a bit.
Sometimes life deals you a hit (I'm sorry about your daughter) and you reel from the blow. This sounds like one of those times. By 2019 you won't think of it more than once or twice a year (that's how long it took me).
Jim
