Contractors

We paid a licensed contractor for sheetrock, they did not pay the supplier, the supplier filed a lien but has not filed a lawsuit within 120 days to enforce the lien, yet the lien is still on our property, how do we get this removed?

WE ARE SUBCONTRACTORS IN SARASOTA CO., WE HAVE JUST FINISHED A BIG JOB DOWNTOWN SARASOTA, THE CONTRACTOR KNOW WANTS TOO CHANGE OUR BID PRICE ON LINE ITEMS THAT WERE ON ALL OUR DRAWS ON AN AIA DOCUMENT AND A SIGNED AIA CONTRACT WE HAD WITH THEM BEFORE WE EVEN STARTED THE JOB LAST YEAR WE ARE AT THE FINAL DRAW PLUS RETAINAGE, THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE LINE ITEMS THAT ARE SIGNED IN OUR BID AND CONTRACT WITH THEM, THEY ARE KNOW SAYING WE CHARED THEM TOO MUCH, AND HAVE ADD THEM UP LINE BY LINE AND ADDED THE CHANGE ORDER MARK UP % of 15% we charge on only change agreed upoun in our orininal contract with. the original bid was a lump sum with a price in it and the AIA draws have been submitted each month too them it is has been a problem job from start to finish but the line items and or bid price has never come up before. Can they back out of the bid price we have signed with them before we even started, I'm in the proscess of on Monday filling out and sending out notice of none payment to all involved, we have all the legal paper work filed since we started, notice of commencement, notice to owner's and have given release of leins to the from every one we owed and paid from the very begining of the job, they also are behind paying all our sub's and our material venders since the May 2009 draw.

A Florida licensed building contractor who normally practiced in the Sarasota, FL area contracted to rebuild my house after Hurricane Andrew. I fired him for nonperformance after his last completed step payment which I paid but he then filed a mechanics lien on my house (1994) for work not yet completed. The lien in fact was for reconstructing the entire house even though he only finished a small fraction of it. An attorney that I went to told me that the lien would expire in 1 year if he did not file suit so I just ignored it. Recently, I found out that that lien as well as one filed by one of his suppliers on my house is still listed on the Miami Dade county clerk's website. Do I need to petition the county clerk to have the lien removed or is it possible that it remains valid ?

My father worked as a subcontractor for a mechanical companing he supplied materials and labor for two jobs. One job he got paid for the next one he did not. what can he do to collect the money owed to him?

I pre-wire a residential construction for cable, telephone, network, stereo, and surround. Customer agreed via email to a proposal on Dec. 8, 2008. Customer was given labor price per hour and material costs. Customer added more work over the course of the project. Customer now wants to quibble over the bill even though labor and materials charges were listed in original proposal. Home closed about 45-60 days ago, and customer has not paid a dime toward a $7500 invoice. Do I have options, and can I file a lien against the dwelling without stirring up a hornet's nest that I can't afford with legal fees, etc.?