The project is a public work in California and the contract amount is over $25,000.00. We already sent preliminary notice to GC and Owner 2 months ago, but the preliminary notice didn't have bond information listed on it. Now, we added GC's bond information and send it to the surety company. Does we need to resend update preliminary notice to GC and Owner? We don't want to lose our spot....Read More
I have a signed contract with a client to be her roofing contractor. I met with the adjustor and the roof was approved for replacement. Arrangements were made 3 different times to collect the payment so I could proceed. She then decided she wanted estimated from other companies. After lots of going back and forth I just sent her a notice of intent. I just discovered that someone who used to work for me and was a partner under a dba put the roof on. He has been using my signs and advertising he is a verteran owned business and is fully insured. Both of which he is not. Do I have legal recourse against him . And this is not the first instance as there are also google reviews where left with people giving his name as he completed a roof under our name and no money has come to our company...Read More
it looks like this property has been sold since this lien was originally recorded. It was sold to SLP-90A, Ltd near the end of 2018. That is when we filed the original lien. We then updated the lien again in August of 2020 and found out about the new owner (which is really the old owner just in a different form). We have correspondence indicating the owner knows we were doing work. What are our alternatives and can we update the lien to include the new "owner"?...Read More
I just found out we have a mechanics lien against our property. We have had no notification of this. I do I find out where the lien is filed and what is required to get it released?
Richard Weitzel
949 677 1252...Read More
Our client suggested we can file a lien on Rodd & Gunn project. The problem is that we had entered the project late on Levelset, we sent an intent to lien when we reached to our client on payment update. . Till this moment we haven't received a payment on the project since March. We started the project back in November 2019 and end around February. Can we still file a mechanic lien? ...Read More
We are a federal contractor and have been for decades. The PPA is fundamentally flawed and plays little significance on being paid timely on federal projects. The reason being is that the invoice submission is a multi-step process, that can be delayed endlessly by the FEAD without recourse. The first step in billing on construction projects is to discuss the proposed progressive payment with your FEAD ET. Upon reaching an agreement, you then submit a written CPS for his signature. It is at this point that the government is not held to any time limitation, and we have had ET's hold our CPS's for weeks without signing. We cannot enter our invoice into WAF until this document is signed, and the PPA does not come into affect until the invoice is entered into WAF. So as stated, the PPA does nothing to ensure prompt payment to the contractor if you are dealing with an incompetent or malicious ET. ...Read More
I'm a subcontractor that worked on a federal building project. Our last day on the project was 10/4/2019 but we still have not been fully paid. I used Levelset to send in a Miller Act Claim on 9/24/2020. What are the next steps we need to take to enforce our Miller Act Lien Rights?...Read More
Hi, we are a Material Supplier. I did a prelien a little over a month ago, since then our customer has added nearly a million dollars in new invoices to the project. How should I go about this? Do I need to amend the current prelien, do another one?
Can you please help me with this? ( It is not something that I want to do incorrectly!)
Thank you,
Pam...Read More
A home contractor decided to abuse the system and harass me because I do not want to work with him. He has performed no work, delivered no goods or services. Then he goes and files a statement of account on my property to extort money by making fraudulent claims. There is no contract filed nor is there any contract that exists since no work was performed....Read More
I filed a mechanic's lien on a property that is now in escrow. The escrow officer contacted me asking for a demand letter and lien release. Do you have any templates that I can use for the demand letter? I am unsure of how to draft it. Thanks. ...Read More
We have a project that was under contract, and it looks like it got closed out in Levelset and we missed a deadline. The owner promised to pay via email on 6/24 - we sent the final draw on the contract and two invoices for work outside of the contract. To date, the owner has not paid. What are our rights and is our payment still protected? ...Read More
General contractor wants to file a lien against commercial property owner for work done for tenant
No written contract with Landlord or tenant...Read More