The water table is high in this community, so we had to install a new drain tile for proper drainage, which was the main expense that we hadn’t originally anticipated.

I recently had 1000 sq ft of laminate flooring installed. 

To take it a bit further ...Just show up one day and say you want to install smoke/co2/radon detectors in the basement. 

Charge for that, plus labor, transport, installation, etc.I've hung a million (well, it seems like that many!)

It needs a new breaker box and light fixtures installed in about 3 bedrooms.

In each instance, it cost be between $300-$500 installed.

Or installing a sump pump?

I'm not familiar with Cali but if the s/l was 4 years for contracts and unsecued notes I'd put my money betting on 4 years.I'd weigh the option of proceeding regardless of the s/l as the borrower would need to bring that as a defense, I'd bet they don't if no payment was ever made.Another issue, if a payment was never made it sounds like mortgage fraud that is another category getting to criminal charges, the s/l will be longer, 7, 10, 12 years, not sure, it depends too if the original was an insured lending institution or a private individual.It also depends if the note was generated from an installment sale or was made as a cash loan, purchase or refi.It will also depend on whois in the property and if the property has been sold over the past 16 years, we just had an example of a subject 2 deal going sour with subsequent sales and that can limit your security if the note holder fails to act in a timely manner.Frankly, I wouldn't fool with this one, 16 years old, foreclosure notice gievn and never followed through, that's pretty much allowing the note to go stale and abandoning the claim of the amounts owed.If the maker of the note is still in the property and you can contact them by phone or in person, you might be able to negoiate something holding the fraud claim over thier head, forgive some of it and modify it back to life, but they need to agree and you can certainly bluff your way along to a point.

Citezens energy has release forms for property owners, instillation contractors, and developers to sign off on ownership of the underground infrastructure to the utility company to effectivly eliminate royalties like mentioned above and also to eliminate contractors from filing property liens due to unpaid installation expences.This discovery leads me to believe the utility is trying to protect their monopoly.

He actually had them install the carpet before they painted!