Business won't pay for snow removal

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Cars are buried under the snow in Jay, Oklahoma February 9, 2011. Photo submitted by Keith Culver.
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Posted: 07/07/2011

TULSA - The phone rings a lot during the spring and summer, for a business that sells and repairs tractors.

On the other hand, Steve says, business usually slows way down during the winter.

Last winter, though, was an exception, he says, with all that snow in February.

He used his equipment to clear a lot of driveways and parking lots.

Steve remembers one business owner in

"Just charged him $100 to do his lot and removed the snow, turned the invoice into him, then as we know the very next week, we got another 20 inches, so they called us again and we removed that snow."

But while all of his other snow removal customers paid up within a couple of weeks, Steve says he never got a check from that business owner.

As weeks turned into months, Steve and his wife, Kimberly, say they called and called, and left messages for him.

"Never heard anything, he never did, not one time ever contact me."

Kimberly finally called the 2News Problem Solvers, and we got in touch with the owner of the company that owed that bill.

He told us he lost Kimberly's number so he couldn't tell her the check had been ready for several weeks.

We passed that information along to Kimberly and Steve, and they were finally able to pickup the $200 payment they'd been waiting for, for more than three months.

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