A guy I worked with had this happen to him. His house burnt down in slave lake, he pays the general in full with his insurance money, he built the house, had subs come in and in the end he started getting notices in the mail about leins being put on his house. The general contractor had charge accounts set up all over the place and in the end he skipped town and turned up building houses in edmonton. He was out something like 60 thousand bucks to finish the place. I'm not sure how it ended because I didn't want to ask but the fact that this general was still building houses baffles me.
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