When we bought our new house the seller refused to do the (mandatory) sewer lateral, and we gave in and agreed to do it.
The city has a program where they will pay half the cost to qualified owners.
We are on a busy 4 lane street, and the city main is all the way across the street, so bids were higher than typical.
We got 3 bids, went with the lowest one.
The work seems to have been good, passed inspections, no problems.
But then when we applied for the city's rebate program, our application was rejected because the information on our application didn't match their records.
It turned out the contractor didn't actually pull the permit. They hired a sub-contractor, who used a completely different (and several thousand dollar lower) bid/contract to apply for a permit (presumably because the cost of the permit is based on the price of the work) - with my signature forged(!!), as though I had actually just hired the subcontractor directly.
If not for the city rebate application being rejected, I would have never even known that there was a subcontractor involved in any way!
Does any one have any idea what my options might be?
I kind of resent having paid the original plumber at all - if the sub contractor pulled the permit and (possibly?) did all of the work, I could have just hired them directly, and saved a couple thousand dollars. Is there any law against a contractor hiring a sub and having that sub do 100% of the work?