Can Contractor Pull Permits if we cancel Contract for non-performance

Turns out they had a business under another name more than 10 years ago and closed down for similar issues. Also, they do have a contractor license as in fact they were the ones that pulled the permits on the project.

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randolph | 3 years and 11 months ago

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something about this whole story if fishy. the op claims to be an attorney but certainly doesn’t write or do his own business like one…..

classc1 | 3 years and 11 months ago

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I covered myself as much as possible. That’s why I can walk away. Nothing fishy. Just relied upon the recommendation of my architect.

Lurker | 3 years and 11 months ago

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Vard01—it’s as I said. We filed a complaint, DCA reached out to contractor who has something like 30 -90 days to respond, from there they act as mediators and aim to negotiate a settlement between the parties. If that doesn’t work they then can refer the case for trial. They do have subpoena power, they do have the right to pull a contractors license, which prevents them from doing work legally. They can and do sanction contractors so that they are basically on strict probation. Of course there are ways around it, but in our case we got back almost 20% of our construction contract.
Justice is slow, it takes a while, but in our case we filed in Nov and had a settlement by April/may.

Lurker | 3 years and 11 months ago

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https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/businesses/settle-violations.page

classc1 | 3 years and 11 months ago

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Thank you Lurker for that information.

hasibur.rahman07 | 3 years and 11 months ago

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Thanks for sharing Lurker. The first part about mediation is what I also heard from the DCA.

Negotiation didn’t work in my case but also I did not push it. It was similar to the Classc, the owners did not want to take responsibility for sub-contractor and they didn’t even seem aware that the sub had done anything wrong. So we would have wasted 3 month negotiating. DCA told me they will not sanction or suspend license till there is proof such as a legal settlement etc

Lurker | 3 years and 11 months ago

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we were set to have the case referred for a hearing, which is in the OATH court, if our contractor didn’t sign. So that pressure is what tipped him. I presented what our contract was, what payments were made, what work was outstanding, and the costs based on the contract’s line items still outstanding. It was all pretty irrefutable.