Fencing company Stained Tenant Vehicles

[Swathi Vijayakumar]

Hi 

We recently got some fence work done on a rental property. We found the fencing company before and loved them so we used them for this property. One of the workers from the fencing company accidentally got stain on the tenants truck and motorcycle. The truck is a rental through enterprise so we decided to let enterprise handle it. For the motorcycle our tenant is indicating that it's a custom denim paint and will cost anywhere between $5k to $7K to fix. He indicated he will file a claim with his insurance company for the bike.

When this initially happened the fencing company owner gave us his insurance but after trying to file a claim we realized it's worker's comp only. Since then the fencing company is being very flaky and refusing to give us their insurance information. 

My question is who is responsible for this incident? Do we have any recourse against the fencing company other than leaving a bad yelp review? 

[Nathan Gesner]

This is why it's important to only use licensed, insured professionals and you have to verify that because you can't trust what they tell you. The fencing company is obviously responsible. If they refuse to communicate, file a claim with small claims court.