Minnesota Mechanics Lien Form

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When unpaid on a construction project, those providing materials or services in Minnesota can file a Mechanics Lien Statement. This must be filed and served upon property parties within 120 days from last furnishing labor and/or materials to the project.

Fill out the form on the right to download your Minnesota Mechanics Lien Form. Use this form to file a lien in Minnesota.

Rules and regulations for sending a Minnesota Mechanics Lien

Deadline for Property Owner / Public Entity to send the Minnesota Mechanics Lien

120 days after

Last Furnishing Date

A Mechanic Lien Statement must be filed with the proper recording office and served upon the property owner and the party who hired the claimant (if different from owner), within 120 days after last furnishing labor and/or materials to the project. This deadline marks the end of this 120 day period.

Information that goes on Minnesota Mechanics Lien

Amount of Your Lien Claim

Identify the total amount of your lien claim. This should be the total amount owed to you, after applying all credits, for labor and/or materials furnished to the project.

Current Order Text

Extra Text to be used in Forms

Select Unpaid Invoices

Select which invoices to associate with this order.

Specific Description of Labor or Materials

This will impact if your lien will be accepted by the county as “lien-able work". The more specific you can be, the better, here. For examples, please see levelset.com/description-of-labor

Date Lien Claimant's Notice Served

Please enter the date your Lien Claimant's Notice was served. Or, if one of the exceptions apply, and you were not required to send the Lien Claimant's Notice, please enter "N/A"

Who should you send this notice to?

Mail to the Property Owner / Public Entity with Affidavit of Service

After completing the Minnesota Mechanics Lien Form, you must deliver it to the appropriate parties required by statute. Notices are typically served on the property owner and, for sub-tier parties, the general contractor. However, depending on the type of notice, it can be helpful to send notices to anyone else who is in charge of your payment, like a lender or surety company on the project.

Others are asking about Minnesota Mechanics Lien

Submitting a Lien Under a DBA

Your question is very confusing, and as asked seems to be asking whether you need a separate Levelset account for each of your LLCs. For that, you’ll have to talk with Levelset.

That said, as a legal document, a mechanics’ lien should reflect the full legal name of the claimant. Best practice would be to identify your company as XYZ, LLC dba Service Today at least the first time it is mentioned in the document. Each LLC is a separate entity, so each of your “Service Today” companies are independent of each other; they are not all one entity just because they share a common DBA. Furthermore, technically, you can’t have several LLCs under a single DBA, though several LLCs might be able to use the same DBA so long as doing so doesn’t create confusion in the marketplace as to which LLC the customer is working with when they’re working with “Service Today.”

If you haven’t had this conversation with an attorney who can review your company documents to ensure you’re not unwittingly ignoring formalities and risking the wall intended to protect each company’s assets from the other companies’ liabilities, I encourage you to do so.

Answered by Bill Gschwind | Attorney

Removing a false lien

Hi, thanks for reaching out to the Levelset legal community. Check out this Levelset article that addresses the ways to remove a lien from a property: https://www.levelset.com/blog/how-to-remove-a-lien/ . I hope you find your answer there, if not, you may visit our attorney directory page for Minnesota to find an attorney in your area.

Answered by Julie Gelderblom |

Can I file a lien on a GC's personal home if project location wasn't identified?

A mechanics’ lien can be recorded against the property that was improved by the contribution of labor, materials, or both. Proper pre-lien notices must be timely served on the owners of the property to protect the contributor’s lien rights. It is not clear from the question whether the material supplier has lien rights. A call to your legal counsel with all facts should make it possible to provide an accurate response.

Answered by Bill Gschwind | Attorney

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Other forms to use in Minnesota

Minnesota Final Conditional Lien Waiver Form

Minnesota Final Unconditional Lien Waiver Form

Minnesota Lien Claimant’s Notice Form

Minnesota Mechanics Lien Form

Minnesota Notice of Claim on Payment Bond Form

Minnesota Notice of Intent to Lien Form

Minnesota Notice of Lien Rights Form for Prime Contractors

Minnesota Partial Conditional Lien Waiver Form

Minnesota Partial Unconditional Lien Waiver Form

Minnesota County Recorders

Looking to file/record a mechanics lien in Minnesota? You'll need to get your Minnesota mechanics lien filed and recorded with the county recorder in the county where the construction project is located. Here is a listing of all county recorders in Minnesota. Click on any county to find more information about how to get your lien recorded in that county.