Don't really have a comment on this, but do have a comment on the mentality of some "big" money folks.
My dad was a builder/contractor and did a lot of biz for folks in multi million dollar homes in the 60’s and 70’s. About one in three would try something and my dad new it. The most prevalent scam was to reduce the payment by a third and type something on the back of a check effectively constituting "payment in full". Assuming he would have to deposit it to cover expenses.
More than a few got quite upset when the check was return with a letter stating, per the terms, that any payment modifying the contract was not accepted, if they didn't pony up he'd see them in court, and remind them, per the contract, interest, late fess, collection cost were pilling on, and he had a signed acceptance of the work.
As far as I can remember only one guy took it past that. He was some high ranking fell’a at a prestigious collage. He was convinced he could win in court. He didn't, and we held a lean on his house for 6 or 7 years. He finally had a lawyer try to negotiate the interest, late fees, and collection cost down so the guy could sell his house. That didn't work either. Seems like an $8000 project cost the guy $12000 in the end. Pretty good chunk of change in the 70’s.
The best one was when he was quote “fired” from a job. He was fired the day they delivered $14,000 dollars of marble. Dad went and got an injunction to stop all work until he could recover it. Boy was that fell’a upset. Sued us, and claimed all kind of damages. Trouble was other than the bid process we hadn’t been in his house. Hadn’t done any work at all. Of course it was toss out and dad sold the marble to the next contractor to cross the guy’s path.
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