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At the end of a long enormous project, my GC and I can’t agree how much money we owe them. In the last few months, they continued to plaster us with excessive and unfair change orders. Our architect agrees that the majority are unfair. Anyway, at this point, the difference between us is about $45,000. (We think we owe them 45, they say 90) The project is completed, we don’t need anything from them (although they haven’t fully finished the punch list, and there continue to be problems with some of the work they did, but if need be we could find others to do that — we’re sick of them). We seem to be in a stubborn place where neither of us will budge. I think if they sued us, we would win, but obviously it’s to no one’s advantage to go there. I’ll give them what I think we owe them, but no more — is there any reason I have to settle beyond that? Can they do anything to us? I suppose they could put a lien on the property, but a) couldn’t I fight that? and b) I have no plans to sell or do any major renovations in the next 10 years