I am a material supplier. An Oregon contractor paid me through November 2022, and I provided an unconditional waiver through November. They now made their 2nd payment through December 2022, but are asking that the 2nd unconditional waiver have the total amount received on the project (tot...Read More...Read More
In Oregon, how does an Responsible Managing Individual disassociate from a General Contractor and what happens to the RMI's status. Does it go inactive until the RMI associate with another General Contractor?...Read More
My customer bonded out of a lien to sell their property. Do I refile the same lien or do I have to place a claim on the bond? I’m unclear on what my next step is....Read More
I was hired by a home owner to replace the siding on one side of his house and he only paid me for half the job.I had a lien recorded at the Multnomah County Court on 12/06/2022.I need to know how to do the next step to file a lawsuit to enforce the lien....Read More
I'm a Concrete Contractor. I completely doing a pour and finished one of my Customer job and I get paid in full. After few weeks, I just find out the same Customer turn around and disbute against my Bank Account so my bank hold some of my funds. What should I do?...Read More
I am a GC and contracted a whole home remodel for a client. They wanted to move quickly and were hoping to move into home by February 28, 2022. The permitting process took 3 months when we had never had it take longer than 3 weeks. The county was implementing a new system of processin...Read More...Read More
Customer is not paying me for labor and materials that has cost me to replace siding on his house and I believe levelset has sent them a notice to lien and it is up tomorow...Read More
I have paid about 65k to my contractor and he is unable to do the work. He seems to have no money and has spent the money I’ve paid him. He has a 20k bond in which we are due. Through mediation he agreed to pay 20k. My question is, should I sue for all that I’m out? Are there ramifications that ...Read More...Read More
We typically delivery a plan set (scope of supply and design submittal) to our customer long before delivering labor or materials. However, we haven't been filing our pre-liens until we first drop the materials. Should we be filing the pre-lien based on the date that we deliver th plan sets?...Read More
we are a supplier/manufacturer. we have a contract with a subcontractor to provide some material. We do not have a contract with the GC. our customer has been asking for a lien waiver but keeps insisting we need to sign off on it as if it says we are dealing with them and with the GC. (They want us to...Read More...Read More
I have a contractor that never finished a job. I made many attempts to work with the contractor for 30 days to complete the job, but they were unwilling to work. They are now threatening a lien on my property (although they have never even billed me for the job). I have since hired another compa...Read More...Read More
Is it necessary for a general contractor hired by a property owner to send a notice of intent to lien before they file a mechanics lien? If you don't send the notice of intent, will that affect the lien if it's been filed?...Read More
I have recently changed up the way I create construction progress waivers which are signed by our vendors and then submitted to our customers (the GC.) This both reduces chances for errors and cuts my waiver creation time in half. Part of this requires that the conditional month always be listed (i....Read More...Read More
I need to send a right to lien notice and we are contracted with the property management company on a residential home. Would the customer role be "owner designee" or "other" in this case?...Read More