Menu
Home>Levelset Community>Legal Help>Do you recommend any contract language stating that you will not provide a lien waiver for unpaid work or unpaid retainage?

Do you recommend any contract language stating that you will not provide a lien waiver for unpaid work or unpaid retainage?

Georgia

This pertains to the new lien law changes for Georgia that take effect January 1, 2021.

1 reply

Sep 28, 2020
If I were to do that, it would depend upon the relationship you have with whoever you’re contracting with. What we find is a better situation is actually vetting your general contractor or vetting your owner. It amazes me how few people do that. Maybe that’s a seminar topic that we can put together sometime. If you look at even just the lien record in Georgia, which is public record, if you Google for newspaper articles, you tend to find out who the good GCs are and who are not. Same way developers may take a little bit more work with developers for the Secretary of State's website. You can go to contractor pages at Levelset. We can tell you that too, but due diligence will help prevent those problems.
1 person found this helpful
Helpful