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  • Texas Monthly Notices: Technology Is Here To Save The Day

    Texas is notorious for having some of the most complex notice and lien laws in the entire nation. Do you need to send a two-month notice? A three-month notice? Which one goes to which recipients? Do I need to collect a green card? What are these so-called “sworn statements of accounts”? Confusion abounds, and many…

  • Texas Subcontractor Risks In Focus at ENR Risks Summit

    The 3rd annual ENR Construction Risk Summit is approaching, providing contractors, owners, sureties, attorneys, and other construction stakeholders a forum to discuss and debate industry risks. The event’s agenda promises to help all stakeholders better “manage costly risks to achieve project success.” Catering to the summit’s 2015 locale being in Dallas, one focus on the agenda…

  • What You Need To Track When Sending A Preliminary Notice

    Thousands of times every day, contractors and suppliers prepare and send a “Notice to Owner” or “Preliminary Notice.”  Typically, a supplier or contractor will prepare and send the document in-house, or the company will rely upon a “notice service” or a SAAS technology product, like zlien, to transmit the document. Regardless of how the document is prepared…

  • How To Send A Notice To Owner – Certified Mail, or Certified Mail Return Receipt?

    How to Send Notice to Owner? Sending a Notice to Owner is a complicated affair. The document has a lot of criteria, such that contractors and suppliers must, within a certain period of time, make certain that they are sending the correct form with the required information to the appropriate recipients. Importantly, however, a notice to owner must be mailed in…

  • zlien Platform vs. “Lien and Notice Service Providers”

    The Construction Payment Blog has recently published several articles about the current and future state of technology as applied to, and as used by, the construction industry. One of the most important take-aways of many of those articles is that rather than something to be wary of, the adoption of new technology can be a…