wesley

Just this past week we had a deadbeat customer. Talked to the lady the night before we were to start the job to remind her to put her dogs up and turn off the electric fence. I also reminded her to leave a check under floor mat at the front door and I would leave her an invoice when we finished. The next morning when we got there no check but we washed the house anyway since we made the trip. The job was only a $160 job so I wasn't too worried. That night after not hearing from her I called and after she said hello I introduced myself and she hung up on me without saying another word. Repeated phone calls no answer. This went on for two days, Friday night around 10:30 pm drove past house to make sure they were in town and they were,(I wasn't stalking them that late at night I was leaving from a high school football game just down the street) so the next morning I called the local sherriffs dept. and told them I was hand delivering a bill and asked them for an escort since I didn't know how they were going to react and to also keep me from doing something I may regret later. We showed up at the front door and they wrote me a check in about 30 seconds, there excuse was they were busy and hadn't thought twice about the check. Anyways long story short I am a man of principle and right is right and wrong is wrong the money wasn't the biggest concern here it was the fact that somebody tried to screw me. No written contract, only verbal and I was going to get my money one way or the other but with the local authorities standing outside everything went great!