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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sell their outstanding balances to a collections agency, black list them in terms of doing business with you.
Eventually this kind of thing will bite that company in the A$$.
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I'd think a threat of going to collection agency and damaging the credit report would be enough to get payment out of a good chunk of people.
There are also two sides to these stories, and I've had my share of home contractors who really drag out the finish of a project. If in your example, you committed to completing the job in 4 weeks, and it dragged out to 3-4 months, and their kitchen was more or less unusable or at least a big mess, I can see the customer being frustrated and wanting to hold out payment until some kind of compromise can be negotiated. I've never done that, but there are definitely times I've wanted to.