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Originally Posted by Pturner
Dlzdh,
It was very kind of you to post this to help others avoid a similar problem.
I am a little confused about what happened in this instance. The contractor said the "worker was fired". Was the person who knocked on your door a subcontractor or an employee of the contractor? I thought lien laws applied to subs and suppliers, not employees. It also was unclear from your post whether the contractor claimed to have paid the worker.
Also, it sounds a bit fishy to me that, rather than filing a lien, the worker (ex-employee?) knocked on your door and handed you a letter threatening to file one. You couldn't possibly know when he knocked whether he even had been paid. What did he expect you to do-- take out your wallet. Do you still have the letter? If so, and it turns out he was paid through the end of his employment, I would turn the letter over to police and have him arrested for attempted theft before he has a chance to scare another senior into giving him money.
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It works like this,contractor buys product,tells supplier it is for a certain address,if contractor does not pay supplier,supplier puts lien on home,in florida it is as simple as that. Home owner must get release of lien from contractor,that shows that contractor paid for supplies.