Issues with contractor pushing date

[Christian Lopez]

Hi everyone,

I am “under contract” and paid the down payment to a roofing company to replace the roof of one of my properties (more than 3 months ago). Unfortunately, it is already been 1 MONTH since the “due date” they gave me when I signed the contract. One of the main reasons the whole work is delayed was that the person who quoted the work did not pay attention to how to get to the roof given the layout of the property and utilities/cable close to it. This was an error from their end, not mine, and they have made it clear that because of this error the price they quoted is lowered than the true cost; hence they would be losing money with this job (the reason why I think they are delaying the whole job and not due to weather are they make it sound).

I would like to know:

What can/should I do in this case? (are they any legal argument here I can use in my favor? can I make them responsible for lost opportunity costs and/or other costs related to their delay? )

Thanks,

[Max T.]

@Christian Lopez

Why do you want them to lose money?

They underbid… ok

So pay them the true cost or get your money back and find someone else.