In the 20yrs. we've been in the adc business we may have had a dozen clients that didn't pay us. We actually got checks from the collection agency we use from some of them after as late as three years. Here,if you have a lean against the property you can't sell it until that lean is satisfied. Even as screwed up as my state laws are the courts take a really dim view of those that don't pay "contract labor". Key word here being "contract". Having said that, here in Calif. if you install something on a building you, by law, cannot go back and take it off because the owner didn't pay you as it is now considered part of the building and you have to let the courts handle it. Also if you were to actually release an animal/animals on a property because that owner didn't pay you, you would not only get sued and lose but you would also lose your adc lic. in a heartbeat.
We pride ourselves in our work ethics and our honesty and I truly believe it comes across to our clients in such a way as they try to treat us in the same manner. If it happens,and it does, that someone is late paying us and I have to call them,invarably they will say something like "Oh my gosh, I compleatly forgot about your bill and I'll put a chack in the mail today". Thats good enough for me and I tell them so and the check, almost without exception, shows up.
Last edited by Probtrapper; 03/29/14 12:11 AM.