Terms and Conditions

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Terms and Conditions: 

1. Any items added from this project will be subject to an “change order” and an addition to the final price. 

2. All changes must be approved with a signature and date from the customer on a revised bid form prior to work being initiated for any work already in progress. 

3. There are no assumptions nor verbal agreements of work to be performed, other than what is expressly written on an approved estimate/contract/proposal between you the client and Elite Handyman & Remodeling, staff, field technicians, office staff, managers, or the owner. You as the client are responsible prior to signing/approving any estimate/proposal/contract to ask any relevant questions if any portion, tasks, methods, or supplies provided or excluded are not clearly understood. 

4. Disposal or hauling away of debris produced by your project(s) is understood to not be included unless expressly stated in this contract.  Debris haul off can be added to this agreement at an additional cost if requested or proposed by Elite Handyman & Remodeling which will determined based on the project.  

5. Bids/proposals/estimates provided by Elite Handyman & Remodeling without an in-person evaluation/consultation are subject to a change in final pricing in the situation where any customer provided descriptions, dimensions, and or photos were insufficient to translate the scope and breadth of a project, or if key details were omitted accidentally or purposefully. 

 6. Due to a number of unforeseeable unknowns which are common with water damage repairs or “rot”, Elite Handyman & Remodeling reserves the right to update the final amount due on any water damage repairs contract, with client awareness once a full damage assessment can be made after demolition. Repairs in this situation will not be made without client approval of new costs both for water damage or any further damage caused by demolition to expose the extent of initial water damage. 

7. No paint requested to be matched and supplied by Elite Handyman & Remodeling is guaranteed to match in color or sheen perfectly due to a number of circumstances and reasons, including: aging, fading, bad or dirty or stained sample used for the match,  discrepancies in the formula used by the manufacturer, paint store associate’s personal opinion of a “good enough” match. If you the client would like a second attempt at matching more perfectly, then the labor time to get a new match made and the areas/room repainted a second time will be charged  as well as the cost of materials a second time. Paint matches are highly encouraged to be provided by our clients so there is no contention on possible matching issues.

8. Projects with a grand total at or greater than $1,200.00 will require a 50% deposit due at the first day of scheduled work. 

9. A payment schedule as follows will be required  and is agreed to by you the client as the work progresses on any project larger than $1,200.00 A project continuing longer than 5 business days will require a second payment of an additional 20% of the grand total to be made by the 5th work day, or when the project is approximately 50% complete, whichever comes first, and a subsequent 20% payment by the 10th work day or when the project is declared by Elite Handyman & Remodeling to be more than 80% complete, whichever comes first. In summery, four payments on any project over $1,200 will be expected to bring the total amount paid of the agreed balance plus any additional change orders in sequence of: fifty percent deposit, seventy percent, ninety percent, and the final ten percent on completion of the project.  Any work in progress will pause if payments are not made in this aforementioned payment schedule.  Final payment arrangements are to be made immediately following the completion of the final project. Any unapproved delays in final payment will incur a 5% fee of the total balance due for every five business days the final payment is past due.  

10. Failure to may payment or to make a payment arrangement with ELITE handyman and remodeling after 14 days from the date an invoice is sent to you the client will result in a Mechanics Lien being placed on your home or property and will not be removed until all balances due are settled and paid in full with Elite Handyman and Remodeling. This means you will not able to sell your property until this debt is settled. 

11. By approving this estimate/proposal/contract you  the client understand, legally agree to pay the total amount due upon completion of work as indicated by the “grand total”. If "hourly labor" is indicated on the line items of the form, you the client understand and agree that a. no fixed amount is guaranteed, b. actual costs will be based on actual labor time,  and c. final cost will be include actual costs of supplies purchased and provided. 

When agreeing to this proposal/estimate/contract at an hourly basis of labor, you the client acknowledge and understand you will be responsible to pay the final balance even if Elite Handyman Remodeling  has overestimated or underestimated the time required and or the materials cost of the project required. Additionally by agreeing to this estimate/proposal/contract it is your responsibility to pay the determined total due of any work already preformed by elite Handyman & Remodeling even if the project is not completed. 

12. Once this estimate/proposal/contract has been approved by you the client, and a start date proposed has been agreed, you agree and understand that you will be legally responsible to pay  a twenty five percent cancelation fee of the project total for any  projects canceled by you the client within thirty six hours of an agreed start date. Elite Handyman & Remodeling may cancel this contract and the projects contained in this estimate/proposal/contract if discovered that  inaccurate project descriptions, dimension were given, or details and information were  withheld willfully or accidentally, once work has begun. You understand and agree that there will a twenty five percent cancelation fee if false information given terminates this contract. Disagreements, misunderstandings, or any willful obstruction of completion of the project by you the client, will have twenty four hours to be resolved with Elite Handyman & Remodeling or will be considered as a project cancelation and a final payment based on the percent of the work completed will be immediately due. Weather related delays, or general rescheduling of the project will not be considered as a cancelation of this agreement by Elite Handyman & Remodeling. 

13. By approving this estimate/proposal/contract you agree that all portions of work contained within this agreement shall be performed only by Elite Handyman & Remodeling unless otherwise indicated or declined by Elite Handyman & Remodeling. 

14. Pricing in this form is guaranteed for up to 14 days after which we reserve the right to adjust all pricing based on supply, demand, increased supplies costs or labor costs. 

15. By signing this contract you agree to give permission for Elite Handyman & Remodeling to capture and distribute images and video of your project both before, in progress, and after project completion for our own company marketing purposes as well as for our portfolio of completed projects.

16. Elite Handyman & Remodeling will place up to three yard signs with our logo and QR code in your yard during and until project completion for our marketing purposes. If you have an issue with this or if scheduled mowing is obstructed please let us know and we can remove the signs. 

17. Any proposed availability is contingent on a “first come, first serve” basis and will only be reserved when a contract has been returned dated and signed. 

18. We guarantee our workmanship for 90 days from the completion date of the work. Any known issues must be brought to the attention of Elite Handyman & Remodeling within a as soon as they are known to be honored by this guarantee or they will be rendered invalid and not honored as client negligence. All workmanship repair claims must be submitted in writing within the 90 days period and must include photo or video documentation of the issue to be considered for a claim. All warranty claims will be evaluated and examined by Elite Handyman and & Remodeling and we reserve the right to use our expert discretion to determine whether the fault is products / materials or workmanship. We do NOT warranty any work not performed by Elite Handyman & Remodeling and listed in the “Description of tasks” column of this form, nor any parts or materials which are defective purchased or provided by you the client even if these products and materials cause further damage to any surrounding structures. Any additional removal and reinstallation costs of these defective parts, repair of further damage due to defective parts, lost time costs, or delays of project completion will be at customer cost. 

Any defective supplies, parts, and materials, which have been purchased and provided by Elite Handyman & Remodeling that have been determined  to cause damage will be taken up with first with the manufacturer for replacement, and a plan for repair or replacement of parts will be arranged replace these defective parts.

19. Our service call MINIMUM charge for any visit is $365 daily.