Tag: County Recorders
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What Happens if My Lien is Delivered to the Recorder Before the Deadline, but Isn’t Recorded Until After?
Lien and notice deadlines are some of the most thought about and worried about dates on a construction project – at least when it looks like there may be payment issues. And, there is good reason for that. Mechanics liens are very powerful tools to protect against nonpayment in an industry that struggles with many…
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Filing a Mechanics Lien: 4 Essential Questions for the County Recorder
In over 10 years of business helping construction get paid in all 50 states, we’ve interacted with more than our fair share of county recorders and clerks. However, just like the underlying lien laws themselves, county recorders and clerks are constantly updating and changing their regulations which can include anything from the mandating the margin…
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What’s the Difference Between a Lien Claim and a Bond Claim?
To protect against nonpayment, construction participants have unique protections built into the laws of every state. These protections provide the claimant a security interest in a piece of collateral to ensure payment. Whether the interest is in the improved real property itself, or a “pile of money” set aside to protect against nonpayment depends on…
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My Mechanics Lien Was Rejected – What Does That Even Mean?
At zlien, we file hundreds of mechanics lien documents a month, all across the United States. The documents are sent to the county (or town) recorder offices, where they are to be filed and indexed on public record. When the lien documents are received by the county, they are generally recorded as long as the…
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County Recorders – Their 5 Worst Habits
Most counties will record documents the same day, or within a few days, of receiving them. However, other counties do this really annoying thing where they record the document quickly and then…they let the recorded document sit in their offices for weeks at a time. These same counties often mail outgoing documents just once a…