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I think clients in general, should stop paying attention to all these "useless gurrantees" that Niaralanders give on behalf of other Contractors because when the chips are down, they can actually do nothing (and do nothing, they do!), for all the noise they make.

So, l wonder, why would you give such assurance to a Client A, on behalf of a Contrator B, when you know that if he absconds or does a woeful job, you dont have the power or leverage to [pick him up, lock him up or make him cough out the money he has taken?
Of what use is your Gurrantee or Surety?

That is why we say "Clients must do their due dilligence".
What this means is that as a Client, you must take responsibility for your actions, let your agreements be water-tight and actionable and whomsoever stands as surety for any contractor, upon which you make a financial decision, should be held responsible and they must agree to indemnify you against any loss, from the person they are suretying or guarrantying.

We should stop giving out jobs to Contractors simply because somebody said "Give it to him" because in most cases, they might just be playing the "Boy is Nice", for their own future, anticipated selfish benefit (recommendation tinz as per rebate) or just to be in the good books of the contractor for a future, return of favors.

If l start naming all those who use to surety Brabus in those days, only to turn around and start blaming him when trouble starts but failed to go the whole hog of refunding the money on his behalf?

Of what use is that surety, if you know you wont reimburse the Client who has taken a decision and made a financial commitment, based on your recommendation?
WHo is fooling who here?

Would it not have been better for the Client to go into negotiation with the contractor, knowing there are "no guarrantees" (like meeting a complete stranger) and as such, he has to be very tight with his written agreement, make all payments via bank transfer and insert a "non-performance clause" in the written contract such that all he needs to do was flash such ocntract to law enforcements officers and the Contractor is toast?

This idea of jumping to dash-out useless gurrantees needs to stop unless the Gurrantor states that they should be held liable and responsible for any pfuck-up from the ContractorWe must learn to put our money where we put our mouth.
Enough of the eye-service and hypocricy.


@StainlessH: It is One week today that you promised to come back and finish the job.
But you did not and correct me if l am wrong, you did not contact the Client (Segzy) to explain into details, what happened again and to let him see and agree that it was due to one "Hurricane/Natural disaster" that is unavoidable!

Is that what you have become? Why collect almost 90% of the agreed fee, when you have not even started the job?
What is the sense in that?
Has that become the new "signal" to look for in dubious Contractors when they insist on collecting funds, even before lifting a single block or doing even 50% of the job?

Gone are the days when anyone can act on another's recommendation of a contrator and think the contractor has any form of integrity and wont want to disappoint! We have seen it happen over and over again.

Let us stop it and let each client have a water-tight, binding agreement that he/she knows can be easily enforced, even wwithout going as far as a court.
Spell everything out in Black and White. That is due dilligence, from my own point of view.

That is too bad o, stainless H