We are a NY millwork company selling doors and mouldings, we have a customer in NJ that we delivered goods back in September 2021 and we haven't received payment, we still have custom doors, meaning doors that we usually don't stock we just ordered and assembled for them but we did not deliver yet. Can we still file a lien and still meet the NJ deadline of the "last day on the job" since we did work for them at our shop? Thank you
In order for the work to be elligible to lien against a NJ property, it must be part of the written contract scope and the claim needs to be filed in a timely manner under the applciable statute. If the custom doors are included in the millwork materials your company was hired to furnish, you could absolutely extend the permissible filing deadline by delivering them to the customer's property which you would now wish to lien. Keep in mind that the both the deadlines and procedures in NJ differ depending on whether or not the property is used for a residential purpose.