Originally Posted by
reclaimer04
What some people don't understand and what hasn't been explained a lot was, he initially only asked for a paint job. While they were working on it, he would come in and ask for more jobs to be done on it. He didn't just walk in with a big ass list and say, "Do it". That's where the verbal agreements come into play, also with the assurance that Joe had the funds to cover it. he mentioned his grandfather and sponsors (lol).
I fully understand that. I read plenty of this monster thread. Still, at the point the kid owes 3-4k in labor and paying bills is getting a little tricky, most normal businesses would say, "You need to pay for some of the labor first and then we can expand the project." We don't even start work @ my company without a 50% deposit on the original estimate. And if halfway through the scope of the project should dramatically change we'll certainly require more capital to help assure we won't pour resources into a project for a client that simply isn't going to pay. I'm sorry, I've read all of it. It still doesn't make sense to basically be floating a kid a 16K credit line. It wasn't 16K at first, but they kept extending more credit to him until it was.