Tag: How Liens Work
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How to Sign a Mechanics Lien – 3 Essential Things You Need to Know
On the one hand, mechanics liens are incredibly powerful tools that help thousands of contractors, subs, and suppliers get paid the money they’ve earned each and every day. But on the other hand, the mechanics lien process is very challenging to manage, and the rules, regulations, requirements, and deadlines that stipulate how the process works…
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I’m a Janitorial Co. and my Customer Won’t Pay – What Can I Do??
Here on the Construction Payment Blog, we focus most of our attention on the core group of players in the construction industry: general contractors and subcontractors, equipment rental companies and material suppliers, and all of the other folks that make the almost $1 trillion domestic construction industry tick. But there’s another player in the industry that…
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Getting Paid on a Project with Multiple Properties
Mechanics liens can be the last line of defense standing between a construction participant and nonpayment. But with all of the specific, technical, and confusing rules and requirements that potential lien claimants must comply with in order to qualify for an enforceable lien, it’s possible to end up unprotected, even when the claimant has put…
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How to File a Kansas Mechanics Lien
A Practical Guide“It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.” ~L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz All too often, construction industry participants are finished with work and left waiting for late payment (that may not come at all). This is a nationwide problem affecting construction companies in every state, including Kansas. The nature of construction…
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Mechanics Lien Louisiana: How to File a LA Mechanics Lien
If you are unpaid on a Louisiana construction project and have decided to pursue payment through filing a mechanics lien, this step-by-step guide (starting in the next paragraph, below) will provide an outline for how to go about it. However, before you make that decision, it’s important to note that there may be preliminary notice requirements, (and there are…