We haven't received payment from the General Contractor who hired us. We had never sent the homeowners or GC a preliminary notice. Its been about 90 days since we have been waiting on payment. Am I still able to send a preliminary notice? Or can I just go ahead and said a Notice of Intent to th...Read More...Read More
I know Iowa requires a preliminary notice of lien rights be provided to the customer before work begins or soon after. That being said, we do not have an "official form" for this; however, the fine print on our contract has a line that says the following: "Pre-Lien Notice: company hereby provides notif...Read More...Read More
My girlfriend's mom purchased a house that my girlfriend then rented. Her mom wanted some framing around water heater, etc done in basement and also wanted a deck built. Many text messages to prove that she asked for these things but no contract. Her mom was also there in person for some o...Read More...Read More
Is this the wisest thing to do? As I've been shut down and locked out of project only while the general contractor is there! I need my tools and need to only finish very minor plumbing about 4 hours work until two weeks ago I was paid weekly while the general was in Florida at Thier other home they'v...Read More...Read More
I have a condo neighborhood we are supplying to.....do i have lien rights as the supplier. The Condo association hired our contractor to do the work. Do I have lien rights and do i need to send the prelim right away?...Read More
After looking at Iowa's preliminary notice requirements - I would expect that, particularly on larger projects, prime subcontractors would almost always have provided that basic info (name, address, and phone) to the GC on behalf of their second-tier subs. Assuming they didn’t, the Iowa statute (572.33...Read More...Read More
We have found that it is possible for our contractors to provide an inaccurate delivery location for their project, then we could end up liening the wrong location or losing our lien rights because it wasn't actually direct shipped....Read More