The work was for a tenant who has filed for bankruptcy. Can the owner be pursued without the tenant to avoid the bankruptcy stay? Or is the tenant a necessary party?
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Jun 17, 2020
If your contract was with the tenant, you can only lien the property if and only if the property owner signed off explicitly on the tenant's improvements. Absent that owner sign-off, you can only attach to the lien interest. Unfortunately, a bankrupt tenant means that the lien interest has no real value.