problems with general contractors

Would be curious to know if you have made the final payments seeing you are almost done. Hopefully from your perspective, you have not. Is it one of the big boy contractors or a much smaller one?

This is what typically happens when they are about at this stage. The money you owe them is no longer "profit" to them - actually the remaining work they do probably costs them money so they slow down to the point where they hope you will forget about it and move on. He is probably already on the next project too. Just hold back the money and hope for he needs it enough to finish. Worst case you have to hire someone else to finish the job. In the future, negotiate the contract to leave as big amount of cash as possible to finish last 10% so it'll be worth their while. Good luck.

hi guys - no, its not a big name guy.... and I have about 10% of the contract price left to pay.

My wife actually bit into him pretty hard...and now, all of the sudden, he is getting in gear. THis was 3 days ago; so i guess Ill see if it works!