Painting Contractors: Let’s talk about having this important document for your sub-contractors

If you have a contractor, the most important piece of advice I can give you, and seriously, if you walk away from this with just one thing, this is it. Have a signed contract. If you want your attorney to look at it, that's awesome. Contract that specifies the work that's going to be done and the amount that you're going to pay for it and when it has to be complete. Contractors always have contracts. Employees generally don't. And that would apply for whatever jobs they're doing. So if they move on to a new job, have a new contract with a new price set out for that job.

I'm obviously not a lawyer, so I haven't seen a lot of any businesses. They do have a contract that covers them for a period of time, their subcontractor. Lays out what the expectations are, what's the relationship look like, and says something like further work orders that you're going to be provided or whatever. Um, so they're not having it signed each job. I know common practice from what I've seen is a lot of subcontractor agreements that are signed to cover you for like a year period and then reference the work orders for more specific instructions. You know, neither of us are lawyers, probably need to run it by a lawyer to see what they think.