But he should still have to submit quotes for the work and compete against other contractors.Honestly, though, the best way to keep a contractor from gouging on the labor when they know or think that they'll automatically be getting the work is to come up with a price list on all the types of work that can be done.

Contracts had to be fully executed and submitted by yesterday.

The offer was probably accepted before you submitted yours.

We have a commercial loan but with the price points so low they do not want to be submitting deals to underwriting once a month so they strongly suggest for me to buy more than one and submit 1 file to underwriting about once a quarter

They handle all the funds and release payments to us when we submit vouchers for the work as it's needed. 

Hopefully I can manage to schedule time to come to the meetup via video at a future date.

This makes me think that bid was already in the system and not submitted the day before. 

IF YOU REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO ARBITRATION AFTER AGREEING TO THIS PROVISION,YOU MAY BE COMPELLEDTO ARBITRATE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF CIVIL  PROCEDURE.

I then submitted her the report so she could have a clear picture of the values of her properties.

You can search for some great videos on how to make this happen.