Construction Payment Blog

At Levelset, 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...

If your company is on a construction project in Iowa, sending a preliminary notice may be required or voluntary depending on the role your company plays on a job and...

Oftentimes, a company on a construction project doesn't have all of the project information required in the lien rights process right at the start of the project. Other times, that information...

More than just a document to be rubber-stamped to facilitate payment, however, a lien waiver is a document that has significant effects on legal rights. A lien wavier document gives...

All mechanics lien statutes provide a strict time period with hard deadlines before which a lien must be filed in order to be valid and enforceable. These deadlines are critical to...

Just because the payment problems are similar, however, doesn't mean that the solutions are the same. In fact, the mechanics lien as it currently exists was specifically developed in the...

Because mechanics liens are so powerful, there are specific rules and requirements with which the claimant must comply in order to claim a valid lien. These requirements include form requirements,...

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...

A "progress payment" is an installment payment to the contractor, or in other words, a small partial payment on a larger contract that is proportional to the work done by the...

So you need a lien waiver on final payment? You will use the statutory California lien waiver form. Here is a guide to all the blank fields in this form to help you...