Construction company halts work despite overpayment

Exactly that does not apply here at all. The company still exists.

There is a contract with the company, a legal entity, not with the managing director. In the discussion, one should detach from the idea that it is about/against "him". That is not true, or not in the first step. It is about the company, and it still exists and apparently even has value.

Maybe I read a little too quickly....

But it is always the same, the one who has to make the concessions is the client.

It is not a problem from yesterday.

The advice on this is always the same. Hire expert external support, check payment plans, don't overpay. There are also construction completion guarantees, etc., in exchange for coin insertion. Of course, these are not 100% protections, but they help to reduce the risk.

The advice on this is always the same. Hire knowledgeable, external support, check payment plans, don’t overpay. For coin deposits, there are also construction completion guarantees, etc. Of course, these are not 100% safeguards, but they help reduce the risk.

It somehow feels to me as if I wanted to buy a phone in a store and I say: Wait, I first have to hire a technician myself and he checks the device before I buy it, of course I bear the effort.

The advice on this is always the same. Hire knowledgeable, external support, check payment plans, don’t overpay. There are also construction completion guarantees available in exchange for coin deposits, etc. Of course, these are not 100% safeguards, but they help reduce the risk.

We have all that by now. We have a great construction supervisor, without whom we would be absolutely lost, especially since the BU wanted a rule in comparison that I can no longer act as a contact person. He found more and worse defects than the expert! We have a completion guarantee, also fought for in comparison, and we have the retention for the unfinished roof structure. And yet it’s not working. I could imagine that the new management now wants to sue for the retention.

Our lawyer is currently sailing through the Caribbean (kein Kommentar) and will not be back in the country until the week after next. Until then, we cannot do much.

The advice is always the same though. Hire knowledgeable, external support, check payment plans, don’t overpay. There are also construction completion guarantees against coin insertion, etc. Of course, these are not 100% protections, but they help reduce the risk.

Theory and practice are unfortunately two different things )-: We had an expert, but if the construction supervisor says for every "defect" that it's fine as it is, then in practice you face a problem... clash with your general contractor, who then possibly stops working, or let it go and complain afterwards... Often we had already paid trades and only afterwards problems came to light... but I simply cannot withhold payment for a (still covered) staircase for 2 months.....

The problem lies somewhere else... legally on the construction site everyone can do whatever they want and the construction companies always have the upper hand anyway in the current situation....

What I mean is: even if you have considered all this: it takes a bit of luck and a good general contractor, no matter what you do