Q: my problem is this. We fell behind on our rent,and began doing jobs for our manager at our complex,in return for rent.
After the storms recently the complex was torn up by trees landing on vehicles,landing on rooftops,and everywhere.This is a huge job!!which was bidded at 13-21 thousand $$$.My manager and I agreed to 5,500,with 3,000 credited to my rent.I hired one other person to help me get this done,and his pay would be 1500.00. Long story short my manager is not holding up to any part of the deal and still expects us to work on this keep saying we won't get paid until we do this or we won't get paid until we do that we have done everything we were supposed to do in order to get paid she's changed the dates on us repetitively it's been over a month since we started this job we've not been credited anything or paid anything what can we do
A: You can file a breach of contract case in small claims court since the total amount at issue is less than $20,000. You do not need an attorney in small claims court given the small size of the cases there. It would not be cost effective.
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