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can I put a lien on a home for none payment of snow removal?

I live in Bridgton Maine. I live on a dead end road. the town does not plow the street. I pay a plow company to do it and get money from the rest of the home owners on the street. this year no one is paying me. Can I put a lien on the home for payment?

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Dec 30, 2019

Maine's mechanics lien protection is relatively broad, and affords mechanics lien protection to “whoever performs labor or furnishes labor or materials” to the construction, alteration, repair, or moving of a building, an appurtenance to a building, a wharf, or a pier. Note, however, that the work giving rise to a mechanics lien must relate to construction, alteration, repair, or moving or some type of structure. This requirement makes sense because mechanics liens attach to the property itself due to the improvement of that property. Work that is not permanent, or is not specifically related to the structure, may not give rise to mechanics lien protection. Snow removal, like other services related to property but not specific to improvement of the property itself (like routine landscaping, for example) may be work that is not the construction, alteration, repair, or moving or some type of structure. And, if so, is likely work that requires a different remedy than a mechanics lien.

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