Updated October 23, 2026 You signed a $475,000 gut renovation contract for your Bay Ridge two-family last spring. The contract was two pages long, printed on the contractor's letterhead, with no cancellation notice, and a $200,000 deposit due on signing. Six months later the project is 40% complete, the deposit is spent, and your contractor stopped answering the phone. This two-page contract almost certainly violates GBL Article 36-A, and that violation is one of the stronges