Builder asking money outside contract

Yikes, when you said $85 at the start i thought.. eh, just pay it... but $85,000... yeah im not sure the legal process.
I feel they cant if its a mistake from the original contact... i can understand if there was a crazy increase in materials or something.... (although 85k is still way too high for that), but i feel they cant charge you for making errors when sending the original contract.

But, im not sure. However, if your lawyer advised they cant charge you, then can you advise them of that?

Yeah sorry man, thats always been my fear during this first time build.. we have literally just hit lockup as-well, so ive been praying for no issues. Our mortgage / lender was barely able to get us enough to cover the build, and we have put money aside of emergency variations... but certainly not to the extend of $85,000...

Hope it all works out for you.

"but certainly not to the extend of $85,000" - Certainly not chump change

I would be questioning what they did which resulted in this blowout and get it all itemised.

To ask a silly question, I'm assuming that they did not get your go ahead for any extensions?

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