title: How to get paid for contract work and deal with debtor
body: <p>Three weeks ago, I completed a project for a guy. My former CEO gave him a good reference.</p>
  
  <p>The whole time I was doing work for this guy, I gave him updates he could see, and told him he needed to make sure to tell me if there were any changes he needed.</p>
  
  <p>At the end, he told me it looked awesome, exactly what he wanted, and he would send me a check. The next day, he had his buddy check it out, and realized there were a bunch of changes he needed.</p>
  
  <p>I told him I would continue working on this project--to implement these changes--as long as he paid me for the work thus far that he had commissioned. </p>
  
  <p>He's now MIA, doesn't reply to my emails or my phone calls. I've put $2,000 worth of work into this.</p>
  
  <p>Should I try to collect on this? If so, how? Should I take him to small claims court? Forget about it? What?</p>