{"id":32174,"date":"2009-05-22T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=32174"},"modified":"2009-05-22T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:11:53","slug":"firing-a-contra-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/firing-a-contra-1\/","title":{"rendered":"firing a contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contractor I hired deliberately breached our contract agreement, so I need to<br \/>\nsever ties. The job is not complete, but they&#8217;ve done enough that the next<br \/>\ncontractor will need to undo and redo. Anyhoo, other than saying &#8220;don&#8217;t come<br \/>\nback&#8221;, any other steps that should be taken? I do intend to seek $$ for wasted<br \/>\nmaterial, and wondering what the best way is to do so. DCA allows people to file<br \/>\nonline complaints, but one question they ask is whether the contractor has tried<br \/>\nto fix the problem. It&#8217;s so bad at this point, I don&#8217;t trust them in my home to<br \/>\ncome back and do additional work\/remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Any btdt comments appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>keywords: fire terminate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A contractor I hired deliberately breached our contract agreement, so I need to sever ties. The job is not complete, but they&#8217;ve done enough that the next contractor will need to undo and redo. Anyhoo, other than saying &#8220;don&#8217;t come back&#8221;, any other steps that should be taken? I do intend to seek $$ for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-32174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_contractors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/firing-a-contra-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"firing a contractor","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/firing-a-contra-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/firing-a-contra-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"General Contractors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"cl297"}],"creator":["cl297"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z","datePublished":"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z","dateModified":"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"firing a contractor\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/firing-a-contra-1\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/firing-a-contra-1\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"General Contractors\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"cl297\"}],\"creator\":[\"cl297\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-22T22:11:53Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32174"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=32174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}