Arbitration Clause in a contract

One of the states I work in is Oregon and they require 15 hours of continuing education to renew your license, which I did recently. One of my courses was three hours of Oregon contract law.

There I learned that in Oregon arbitration is a mandatory step in a construction dispute. You wouldn't need to state it in your contract.

I also learned that none of my old contracts would have been enforceable if there ever had been a dispute because I failed to include three or four pages of consumer information with or within the contract. Stupid nanny-state legislators don't even realize the more silly crap they require with contracts, the less likely someone is to read the important crap.

Hah Tinner, that's funny. I do quite a bit of jobs w/out a signed contract but not that many. Not a good idea, but this is small town roofin. Somebody screws me and I can get the public shamefinger goin.

What contract I do have states very little as far as specifications and warranty details. It's more of a "balance due on date of completion" and that's the main point. BUT today I decided that over this iced out weekend I'm going to try to make a standard contract page, and then have a personalized quote page for each customer. The reason is because I hit an A/C line this past year and it cost me $640. The homeowner wouldn't let me charge her insurance for it(we had an existing claim, but I didn't know it until the end of the job.)

Not me. I don't think I've even seen a signed contract in 5 years or more.

I just told wife about this and she said one came in today with a check. :woohoo: So, other than this one, it's been about five years or more since the last one.