Construction Payment Blog

It’s not a fun job but someone has to do it. There will come a time when you have to write a customer a demand letter and it’s going to...

We answer hundreds of questions (and probably more than that!) about payments from folks in the construction industry each and every week. And this really isn't surprising, because construction payment...

Some description of the property to be charged with the lien is essential in a mechanics lien claim.  What constitutes an effective description depends on the state in which the...

Michael Dennis from Covering Credit recently published an article titled: “Is Credit Insurance the “Silver Bullet?” The article, responding to a company in the B2B space who suggested that bad debts can be...

When it comes time to record a mechanics lien every company wants to file the minimum amount of documents. This makes perfect sense. The more documents you need to record...

Trade credit, or business credit, is merely the extension of credit from one business to another and is a tremendously large lending source, and an incredibly important part of the...

Credit and collection professionals, collection agencies and agents, attorneys and absolutely everyone in the ARM industry will tell you the same thing about aging receivables: start collection actions as soon...

Can a lien be amended? It depends on multiple factors, the most important of which is whether the time to file an original mechanic's lien has passed. This is a...

Mechanics liens on condominiums can be tricky. In fact, this blog has addressed the complexities of condominium projects several times; here or here for example. the factors that make the lien process...

Earlier this week someone asked a question on Avvo.com about whether a mechanics lien would be effective if filed after an original owner sold the property. This is a great...