Construction Payment Blog

Many small to medium sized businesses get into the habit of sending their own preliminary notices.  What starts out as a manageable task 3 – 5 times per month quickly...

Generally speaking, when a party performs work on a public works project, the necessary remedy for non-payment is to make a claim against the payment bond. Similarly to the mechanics...

  Deadlines are omnipresent when it comes to mechanics lien law. There are deadlines by which notices of commencement must be posted, deadlines by which preliminary notices must be sent...

As the end of the year rapidly approaches, it’s time for companies to take stock of their receivables, reevaluate (or create) their credit policy, analyze their average DSO, grade their...

Note: Please follow this link to read a new article about how legal holidays affect lien and notice deadlines. It’s the holiday season, and that means its time for a warning about mechanics...

I wondered if one of these light-hanging companies or individuals would be entitled to file a mechanics lien if they went unpaid for their services. We’re deep into Christmas season,...

In a victory for construction subcontractors, the U.S. Supreme Court preserved the 24 state laws limiting the validity of forum-selection clauses in construction contracts in its ruling on Dec. 3...

The Construction Payment Blog and levelset’s Mechanics Lien resources are jam-packed with information about the mechanics lien laws as they vary from state-to-state, but we rarely analyze these laws at the county level....

An interesting question occurred to me while I was doing some “fix-it” work around the workplace the other day. And, being that a good portion of my brain-space is taken...

The Texas mechanics lien and construction notice laws are unnecessarily complicated, as we’ve discussed in a number of previous articles, including: Are Texas Lien Deadlines The Most Complicated In The...