From: bambam@nospam.tnx
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house alt.building.construction misc.legal
Subject: Re: Are these normal issues with contractor's agreement?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:24:18 GMT

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:21:39 GMT, "Doc" 
wrote:

>I'm in Florida working on getting post-hurricane repairs made to my house.
>Replacement of the roof, drywall replacement in several rooms and full house
>carpet replacement.
>
>I've found a General Contractor who says they can do the work. They left an
>agreement with me to sign before they'll begin any contact with the
>Insurance company. I realize many of you aren't attornies but am hoping some
>have had experience with this sort of issue and see what you think about
>some points on the agreement - under each I'll include any questions
>concerns about the point. If you see something, by all means speak up. By
>the way, sorry for the all caps, but I did this by OCR off my scanner. It
>would take forever to type it all:

(SNIP)
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>What I'm looking for is if you feel these seem like normal, reasonable
>provisions or if you see anything that's questionable.
>
>Thanks for all shared wisdom.

All prepared contracts (as opposed to negotiated contracts)  are
onerous -- designed to protect the contractor  rather than the client
and rather than being fair and balanced.

I am a contractor, in Alberta rather than Florida, and I'd be
embarassed to ask my clients to sign off on some of those provisions.
Not all those provisions would be upheld here, but that doesn't help
you in Florida.

I'd talk with a contract lawyer there,   I'd check with a couple of
other companies,  and I'd sure check references.and any state agencies
that might help.

Ken .