A former customer of mine owes me for three different invoices for work that was completed at his place of business .The former customer & his family are immigrant from another country. They do not understand a lot of stuff that we just assume are simple things you should already know. Like what...Read More...Read More
Had historic written quotes from a contractor of $2500 for porch and $3500 for under the house. Earlier this month we had the contractor out to give us current quote to include a little work on the garage in addition to the work on the 2 historic quotes. He quoted a total of $7000 for all 3. He com...Read More...Read More
levelset says In Louisiana, anyone who contracts with the owner for more than $100,000 must file a Notice of Contract before the delivery of materials or labor to the project. an upset client whom we placed a lien on, directed us to websites that say "In order to secure lien rights, prior to beginning ...Read More...Read More
We provide storm restoration services and will be working in Louisiana. Is there any required wording in reference to liens that should be added to our contract?...Read More
Insurance company would not pay due to Over charging. Contractor would not provide insurance company with exactimate bill. They were not licensed in Lake Charles, La and filed the lien over 60 days late. Insurance company and myself have asked them to turn in the bill the way the insurance c...Read More...Read More
I once owned a residential property in Louisiana. While I owned the house I had it rebuilt after a storm damage. I have a lien waiver from the GC and the rebuild was completed, was GC paid in full, and I sold the property. I recently received a Mechanics Lien against the property I no longer own. M...Read More...Read More
Contractor has filed lien on my property. I had a lawyer speak to his lawyer, cost me a small fortune, but the lien was removed by the contractor. He then put the lien back on my property using a different lawyer. He never notified me, or made any attempt to collect, but has renewed the lien for the past 4yrs. ...Read More
We did not know until now that the client was in active bankruptcy since August 2018, she refused to pay us for the work we did, can we still file lien on property?...Read More
If homeowner hired me originally to paint and change some rotted fascia. But hired another person to move electrical panel and install doors originally. So was originally hired for that scope. Than she added gutters and change two windows. Who is the GC? ...Read More
Customer had work completed in Mid Oct. No notice of termination was filed however. It is now first of May, and they have not paid. Am I out of the statute timeline to fild a lien in Louisiana. ...Read More
Our company is a labor only company. We started a job that required a 3 draw payment. While doing work at the home the clients request for additional work to be completed which turned our now 3 draws to 4 draws. The client has paid 2 of the 4 draws, we have requested for the 3rd draw to get us th...Read More...Read More
I finished work on a residential remodel and im still owed 10,000. Now the client is moving out of state and her house is on the market. I have a paragraph in my contract that i make them initial that states if final payment is not received that i will file a lien against said property....Read More