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A law which permits one state to claim personal jurisdiction over someone who lives in another state.

Question: Help with a problem with a cleaning service I hire for my dads house.? 1. I live in DC I hired a cleaning service in WV for my dad over the phone and email. 2. Through email she told me she would send 2 girls @ 12.00hr every two weeks. I told her over the phone fine. 3. She then faxes me an invoice for 4 girls not two. I asked for references names and numbers. I got sick and didn't pay the invoice for about 30 days. Then she had a fake bill collector calling my job. I paid 500.00 by CC and have proof. The bill collector after going over all emails is one of her reference from a radio station in wv. Now she changed the amount of the invoice I receive at first to included finance. Now I get a letter from a WV lawyer saying pay this new amount or they will sue me using WV long arm statue code 56-3-33. I have sent her checks for the first invoice only to have her send them back because it didn't include these made up charges. I agreed to 2 girls not 4 now I feel like I should only pay half the invoice I never signed anything this was all over the phone. Help

Answer: Besides a lawyer, call the Better Business Bureau and any consumer help organization, preferrably one related to the media. The word needs to get out about these people. I would think your email should have been your contract. Do you have copies of all your emails? That would be the proof. If you have trouble paying for a lawyer, you can probably take her to small claims court and I would as she was unauthorized to send 4 girls. Make sure your contract is cancelled now so that she does not continue to send people.

 


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