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What type of legal documentation do I need to ensure compensation at the end of a technician service order?

I'm getting ready to start taking technical support service calls on computer equipment on-site as a full-time consultant for an home-based business that I am developing. The labor rate is going to be $20 per hour for residential and $40 per hour for business on top of a travel rate of $0.75 per mile for residential and $1.00 per mile for business. So basically what I want to do is: 1. transfer the legal right of possession of the equipment to my company on-site, or stop and bill for travel 2. waive the liability of data loss / loss of limited manufacturer warranty for certain procedures on-site, or stop and bill for travel 3. start and finish work on-site, or stop and bill for partial work and travel 4. receive compensation on-site, or stop and bill for work and travel and leave with held equipment, then bill for holding equipment off-site at a rate of $5 per day beginning the first day after invoice date (all of which will be required to release equipment back to customer) 5. transfer the legal right of possession of the equipment back to the customer on-site, and smile a little knowing most people follow the rules and I have little to worry about Also, I want to document it in a single section of a 1-page form, which contains lots of information fields already, however, I am willing to use a 2-page form by printing on both sides of the page. This single purpose form should permit me to document the customer info, service order info, data loss liability waiver, manufacturer warranty liability waiver, backup/restore information, operating system installation information, hardware modification information, and probably more than that as needed. Basically I want to be able to pull a file and know what myself or another technician has done, and to do that requires lots of check boxes and empty blanks to fill in. So I don't have a lot of "legal room" to work with, but, with the correct font size, margins, paragraph settings I should be able to fit in quite a bit if need be. I just don't really know what to write, and I don't even know how to write the right questions for people that might know what to do. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, David

Public Comments

1. Why not pay a real lawyer, or at least a paralegal, who knows how to write contracts, to write one for you? --- Kasey C, PC guru since Apple II days I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
2. Why not just simplify the whole thing by just saying "pay me when I walk in the door" and forger all that documentation stuff - when they get through all the documentation you require I sure of one thing - they certainly won't call YOU again.