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Alright. Where to begin? How about last May when the whole ordeal started. A friend of ours is a landscape architect who works for a prominent landscaping firm in Omaha. The clientele my friend deals with aren’t Joe Blow from down the street who wants a tree or two planted. Most of them are high dollar, high profile folks. In other words, if you are using her nursery, you’ve got cash to throw around.
A client approached K (my friend) and wanted some landscaping done to her summer cabin which included some concrete work. She took the bid and, in an effort to please the client even more, contracted the concrete work through my boyfriend who was able do it at a phenomenally better price than she could ever dream of. The final bill from K was around 8 or 9 thousand dollars (a pretty small job, but it was a pretty small cabin!), and the bill for my boyfriend was about $1,000. She had a contract with the nursery, and although I advised my boyfriend to get one as well, he neglected to do that. I could kick him. She became delinquent with her account at the nursery, and we went with out payment as well. MANY phone calls and surprise visits to her residence from K didn’t seem to do any good. She stopped answering calls from K’s office number, work and personal cell, and my boyfriends cell. Letters were sent on behalf of her company, which did elicit payment of all but $2,000. Still nothing for us though. K was stopping over there every morning on her way to work, every lunch hour, ever appointment that brought her even remotely close to her house, and every night on the way home. Not only harping for payment for her company, but for the poor independent contractor as well. FINALLY, after 4 months we received a check in the mail from the client’s daughter for the full amount. It was deposited and we went on with our lives, and started paying the bills that had begun to back up.
Let me explain that my boyfriend is a farmer by trade, but anyone who has ever known a farmer will agree when I say that they are much more than that! When he isn’t planting or harvesting something, he does side jobs that range from diesel mechanics to plumbing to auctioneering to construction work. Side jobs that help provide his (our) income in the summer and winter. With a $1,000 balance outstanding for nearly 4 months, our finances were beginning to feel it. Luckily our creditors are local, and are used to dealing with the farmer. (Sometimes you’ve got more money than you know what to do with, and others you are quite literally robbing Peter to pay Paul). So when this check bounced, wreaking total havoc on our account, you can guess that we were none too pleased, as were the local merchants that have now also taken a hit from our bad checks. Again the calls and visits started, and now the bitch refused to even answer the door. Many messages were left and my boyfriend was beginning to think that he would just have to eat this one. Months pass, she’s no where to be seen, the daughter who passed the rubber check being just as elusive. In January an ultimatum was sent by the nursery regarding her delinquent account: Pay us now or meet us in court. This is the last correspondence from us. Miraculously a check arrived days later, wiping out her balance. She and her daughter have been black flagged, and will have a hell of a time getting work contracted though a business like that again. K stops by the house one last time to remind them of their payment to us. She tried to get snarky and deny that they owed us anything! K reminded them that we still have the copy of the bad check, and while the nursery can’t represent us in court, they sure can testify for us!!
Lo and behold come the end of February a check arrives in our mail box! Joy! We tear the envelope to pieces only to find a check for $400!!!! This time the check is from a mans account, same address though. There is also a note that says they will be sending the rest with in 2 weeks. We immediately took it to the bank and verified that it was indeed a good check. It was.
Well kids, two weeks from the date that check was last Wednesday, and STILL no check. Now mamma’s involved, because I am tired of dealing with this happy horse shit. I composed a letter indicating that they need to remit at once or face legal action. This will be sent certified, once I’ve made a few attempts to contact the scum bags by phone. The three of them are now involved as far as I am concerned since Bitch 1 never paid, Bitch 2 passed a bad check, and Asshole 1 promised us payment and never delivered.
My first call was this evening. A woman answered the phone and hesitated as I asked to speak with one of the three. SURPRISE!!! They “weren’t home”. But I was given the option to leave a message, which I gleefully did. I advised the woman that I do not want to be forced to make another call, and that it would be in their best interst to return my call at their earliest connivance. I asked who I was speaking with, as I am kicking asses and taking names by God. Guess what? She declined to share that information with me! Claiming she was an out of town guest and didn’t want to get involved. They should be home later………..
“Is this *Stupid Bitch* that I am speaking to?” Greeted by silence and then a shaky and stuttered denial. I asked quite forcefully a few more times if I was speaking to the bitch in question. No, she claimed she wasn’t. Do you guys believe her? HELL NO!!!!! I left my number as well as my boyfriends number, and let her know I would be anticipating a call back.
Now they have my cell number and I guarantee you I will never get a live person again if I call from there. So, tonight, after my gym session (with the my landscaper friend no less), I will place a call from the payphone in the rec center. And then from a phone a work, and then from my boyfriends parents house, a friends cell, a payphone in the mall, whatever. Then I will send my letter. Also, I drive by their neighbor hood on the way to work. I think I’m going out for lunch tomorrow if you get my drift!
I'm not messing around anymore. Either they can pay us the remaning balance now, or they can pay us the remaning balance with court costs later. Either way, it's up to them.
Comments? Sorry about the length, I;ve just been dealing with this broad and it's making me
A client approached K (my friend) and wanted some landscaping done to her summer cabin which included some concrete work. She took the bid and, in an effort to please the client even more, contracted the concrete work through my boyfriend who was able do it at a phenomenally better price than she could ever dream of. The final bill from K was around 8 or 9 thousand dollars (a pretty small job, but it was a pretty small cabin!), and the bill for my boyfriend was about $1,000. She had a contract with the nursery, and although I advised my boyfriend to get one as well, he neglected to do that. I could kick him. She became delinquent with her account at the nursery, and we went with out payment as well. MANY phone calls and surprise visits to her residence from K didn’t seem to do any good. She stopped answering calls from K’s office number, work and personal cell, and my boyfriends cell. Letters were sent on behalf of her company, which did elicit payment of all but $2,000. Still nothing for us though. K was stopping over there every morning on her way to work, every lunch hour, ever appointment that brought her even remotely close to her house, and every night on the way home. Not only harping for payment for her company, but for the poor independent contractor as well. FINALLY, after 4 months we received a check in the mail from the client’s daughter for the full amount. It was deposited and we went on with our lives, and started paying the bills that had begun to back up.
Let me explain that my boyfriend is a farmer by trade, but anyone who has ever known a farmer will agree when I say that they are much more than that! When he isn’t planting or harvesting something, he does side jobs that range from diesel mechanics to plumbing to auctioneering to construction work. Side jobs that help provide his (our) income in the summer and winter. With a $1,000 balance outstanding for nearly 4 months, our finances were beginning to feel it. Luckily our creditors are local, and are used to dealing with the farmer. (Sometimes you’ve got more money than you know what to do with, and others you are quite literally robbing Peter to pay Paul). So when this check bounced, wreaking total havoc on our account, you can guess that we were none too pleased, as were the local merchants that have now also taken a hit from our bad checks. Again the calls and visits started, and now the bitch refused to even answer the door. Many messages were left and my boyfriend was beginning to think that he would just have to eat this one. Months pass, she’s no where to be seen, the daughter who passed the rubber check being just as elusive. In January an ultimatum was sent by the nursery regarding her delinquent account: Pay us now or meet us in court. This is the last correspondence from us. Miraculously a check arrived days later, wiping out her balance. She and her daughter have been black flagged, and will have a hell of a time getting work contracted though a business like that again. K stops by the house one last time to remind them of their payment to us. She tried to get snarky and deny that they owed us anything! K reminded them that we still have the copy of the bad check, and while the nursery can’t represent us in court, they sure can testify for us!!
Lo and behold come the end of February a check arrives in our mail box! Joy! We tear the envelope to pieces only to find a check for $400!!!! This time the check is from a mans account, same address though. There is also a note that says they will be sending the rest with in 2 weeks. We immediately took it to the bank and verified that it was indeed a good check. It was.
Well kids, two weeks from the date that check was last Wednesday, and STILL no check. Now mamma’s involved, because I am tired of dealing with this happy horse shit. I composed a letter indicating that they need to remit at once or face legal action. This will be sent certified, once I’ve made a few attempts to contact the scum bags by phone. The three of them are now involved as far as I am concerned since Bitch 1 never paid, Bitch 2 passed a bad check, and Asshole 1 promised us payment and never delivered.
My first call was this evening. A woman answered the phone and hesitated as I asked to speak with one of the three. SURPRISE!!! They “weren’t home”. But I was given the option to leave a message, which I gleefully did. I advised the woman that I do not want to be forced to make another call, and that it would be in their best interst to return my call at their earliest connivance. I asked who I was speaking with, as I am kicking asses and taking names by God. Guess what? She declined to share that information with me! Claiming she was an out of town guest and didn’t want to get involved. They should be home later………..
“Is this *Stupid Bitch* that I am speaking to?” Greeted by silence and then a shaky and stuttered denial. I asked quite forcefully a few more times if I was speaking to the bitch in question. No, she claimed she wasn’t. Do you guys believe her? HELL NO!!!!! I left my number as well as my boyfriends number, and let her know I would be anticipating a call back.
Now they have my cell number and I guarantee you I will never get a live person again if I call from there. So, tonight, after my gym session (with the my landscaper friend no less), I will place a call from the payphone in the rec center. And then from a phone a work, and then from my boyfriends parents house, a friends cell, a payphone in the mall, whatever. Then I will send my letter. Also, I drive by their neighbor hood on the way to work. I think I’m going out for lunch tomorrow if you get my drift!
I'm not messing around anymore. Either they can pay us the remaning balance now, or they can pay us the remaning balance with court costs later. Either way, it's up to them.
Comments? Sorry about the length, I;ve just been dealing with this broad and it's making me
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