My husband & I are contracting our home out to be built. We hired a framer whom was referred to us by the company President Homes out of Council Bluffs whom we are going through. We have had nothing but issues with the framer. We had to have them redo numerous things & now he is mad because we told the company whom referred him what we thought of him. We have not paid him his final payment yet & do not plan on it until our final framing inspection is done by the building permit board. He is trying to charge us for things that should have been in his original framing bid & we are disagreeing with this. We were considerate enough to pay him as he went along due to him having personal issues also, which in the long run has cost us daily interest on our construction loan also. Can we pay him his final bill which was on his original bill & get away with not paying him for the extra stuff not agreed upon. Can he put a lien on our loan or new home? We are going to consult a lawyer I think on the subject. Can we put a lien on his company also? We are not happy with the whole thing. He used our tools & equipment also which would have cost him a lot more to rent out if he would have to pay for that. Can we bill him for all of that? If so he owes us a lot more than we owe him. We helped him along just to get the job done finally.