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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Here are two other options. One is to agree to pay the supplier directly for the materials when they are delivered to your house. Another option is to agree to make progress payments based on the amount of work completed. But, paying a third of the cost either in cash or by check before any work was completed would be totally unacceptable to me, and could very well result in you losing all of the money. It happens often.
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Would never finance a contractor but some sort of progress payment could work.
If you felt you had no choice but to pay a deposit put it on a credit card but would also get some sort of a contract signed by contractor.