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Hello and thank you for providing a nice forum where I can ask this question.
My husband and I own a service related business, lawn care and landscaping.
A man named Rich called us and hired us to take care of what he presented as his lawn at his home. He presented himself as a married man with a wife living in the home.
He asked us to invoice him monthly, and bill him at the end of each month. He asked us to address his bill to his business name "so and so plumbing", which we did.
This was done on a verbal agreement, no contract, a handshake.
He will not pay the bill now after the work has been done. The woman who he claimed as "his wife", is not his wife, although she is the one who lives at the house where the lawn was cut. She claims no part in any of this, although she saw our crew out there cutting her grass, and she never told them to stop. Her answer is this, "Call Rich, you invoiced Rich, I have nothing to do with this."
We come to find out, that Rich doesn't even live at that house, and we have no adddress or phone number to reach Rich. All we have is the home phone number, which is her phone number.
I want to take her to court, because I feel it is her that is living in that home, we cut HER grass, she watched us cut HER grass, and I feel she is the one liable for the bill.
Could you give me any advice on what to do? It's like they were running a scam. She gets some fly by night guy to call us, sets up the agreement, then he disappears, we can't get ahold of him, and she claims she aint responsible for paying, although she is the one who reaped the rewards of getting the grass cut.
Can I take her to court?
I appreciate your advice.
Thank you very much,
My husband and I own a service related business, lawn care and landscaping.
A man named Rich called us and hired us to take care of what he presented as his lawn at his home. He presented himself as a married man with a wife living in the home.
He asked us to invoice him monthly, and bill him at the end of each month. He asked us to address his bill to his business name "so and so plumbing", which we did.
This was done on a verbal agreement, no contract, a handshake.
He will not pay the bill now after the work has been done. The woman who he claimed as "his wife", is not his wife, although she is the one who lives at the house where the lawn was cut. She claims no part in any of this, although she saw our crew out there cutting her grass, and she never told them to stop. Her answer is this, "Call Rich, you invoiced Rich, I have nothing to do with this."
We come to find out, that Rich doesn't even live at that house, and we have no adddress or phone number to reach Rich. All we have is the home phone number, which is her phone number.
I want to take her to court, because I feel it is her that is living in that home, we cut HER grass, she watched us cut HER grass, and I feel she is the one liable for the bill.
Could you give me any advice on what to do? It's like they were running a scam. She gets some fly by night guy to call us, sets up the agreement, then he disappears, we can't get ahold of him, and she claims she aint responsible for paying, although she is the one who reaped the rewards of getting the grass cut.
Can I take her to court?
I appreciate your advice.
Thank you very much,
