That is a good one. You do need leverage when it comes to these matters.
An owner of a large project will keep what is called retainage out of every prime contractors monthly payment requisition, used to be about 10%, so for all the progress payments this is done until the end of the job, so on a large contract it represents a significant amount that a contractor needs, can be a good chunk of the jobs profit too. This is done to insure that all punch list items are completed to the satisfaction of the owner, close out items are done, it gives the owner some leverage until the job is 100% accepted/closed out and can be held for 1 year or more depending on the contract, until the job warranty expires in some cases. Funny though, contractor does not have the same leverage as an owner in some cases, smart move the piece of glass was, owner must have been really dumb, not to look into the flue.
I bought a cheap car for a co worker once, gave him the car, but kept the title, he was a budding alcoholic I came to find out, many DWI's later I heard. Never was sure how he got plates and stickers without transferring the title, but he ran the car, for about 6 months, never paid me, but when he wanted to sell it, he came to see me, had the title under the seat of my truck the whole time, dug it out in front of him and gave it to him when he paid me cash, had he known it was there and we still worked together I'd bet he would have stole it.
It's all about leverage, you always need that, good to have that in most situations like these.
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