Ah c'mon!  Paying late isn't the ONLY way an owner can abuse you!  This isn't
enough of a challenge to hire someone with specific talents in the coordination of
abuse!  I think you may also be over estimating the owners pride in his ability to
abuse you well!

-jc


Ken Follett wrote:

> Late Payment Abuses
>
> "Late payment without good cause is a form of legal predation through which
> an owner or contractor makes use of a (sub)contractor's money not as security
> for work yet to be performed but either to make money or for extra leverage
> in the business relationship."
>
> "â€| the long-term solution is the adoption of a new ethic that precludes abuse
> of contractors by owners and between prime contractors and subs. And the only
> way to do that is to withhold your services from people unworthy of being
> your clients. That means that slow-paying owners and abusive prime
> contractors should be publicly identified, ostracized and isolated."
>
> ENR, September 11, 2000, p 74-77 & 100
>
> As a member of the Preservation Trades Network and APT, I believe there needs
> to be an alliance of relationships and sharing of information within the
> preservation industry between the trades, architects, engineers and
> conservators to sort out those CM's, GC's and property owners who are abusive
> in late or withheld payments. We all of us get held up equally on payments
> from the same set of abusers.
>
> "â€| a prime contractor may propose a closeout payment at a fraction of the
> value of the work."
>
> Been there, done thatâ€| I'll never, ever, say anything nice about them again.
>
> Does anyone know of a GC with a subcontractors relations coordinator?
>
> ][<en