What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas
I live in Allen, TX and have a shared fence line dispute with my neighbors contractor (not my neighbor). Initially the contractor felt we had a verbal contract for my roof and fence line (i never felt we did) and upon declining his services i indicated that we needed to discuss what repairs would be performed with myself and my neighbors shared fence line . Those discussions never occurred until after the contractor replaced the entire fence line as well and upgraded it to a higher quality product. Now the contractor is billing me for half of those costs ($25 a foot for a total of $500) and threatening legal action if not paid in full. I had no problem splitting the costs of the needed repairs with my neighbor (again my neighbors are not requesting funds), but at no point in time was i provided from my neighbor or the contractor with an estimate or date of this fence replacement. My question is what is my legal obligation to the contractor under this scenario if neither my homeowners insurance or myself ever agreed that this section of fencing needed to be replaced? The hang up is that he keeps claiming we had a verbal contract who he has a witness to, yet it's my opinion that we never made any formal agreement at any point in our discussions on what materials, costs, or time frame the job would be performed in (he's claiming i verbally agreed to have him discuss those details with the insurance adjuster under our apparent verbal contract).
I live in Allen, TX and have a shared fence line dispute with my neighbors contractor (not my neighbor). Initially the contractor felt we had a verbal contract for my roof and fence line (i never felt we did) and upon declining his services i indicated that we needed to discuss what repairs would be performed with myself and my neighbors shared fence line . Those discussions never occurred until after the contractor replaced the entire fence line as well and upgraded it to a higher quality product. Now the contractor is billing me for half of those costs ($25 a foot for a total of $500) and threatening legal action if not paid in full. I had no problem splitting the costs of the needed repairs with my neighbor (again my neighbors are not requesting funds), but at no point in time was i provided from my neighbor or the contractor with an estimate or date of this fence replacement. My question is what is my legal obligation to the contractor under this scenario if neither my homeowners insurance or myself ever agreed that this section of fencing needed to be replaced? The hang up is that he keeps claiming we had a verbal contract who he has a witness to, yet it's my opinion that we never made any formal agreement at any point in our discussions on what materials, costs, or time frame the job would be performed in (he's claiming i verbally agreed to have him discuss those details with the insurance adjuster under our apparent verbal contract).