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I paid an unlicensed contractor under the false pretense that they were licensed. This fraudulent contractor hired (subcontracted on his own authority) his
friend to do the electrical work. The electrician is a licensed electrical apprentice, can this electrician file a lien against my property if he lies and...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
1 answerAdd commentJun 12, 2022
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I'm a subcontractor who was working on a commercial development that had a stop-work order that went into effect before I was actually on the property. I
completed design work, some labor (in warehouse), and ordered parts for the job (sprinkler heads that were in a shortage at the time and were ...Read More
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Leigh Moulton
1 answerAdd commentMay 16, 2022
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We are a sub-contractor in New Jersey who provided labor to a job i Michigan. The last day of work and the invoice date were 11/24/2021. The General
Contractor has refused to pay. We did not send a notice of furnishing to the General Contractor. (did not know the procedure). Can a lien still be filed?
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Anonymous Contractor
Waiting for answerAdd commentApr 11, 2022
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I filed a lien against owner of job that we worked on. Come to find out the contractor we worked for also filed a lien against the owner and since we didn't as
a sub go in on the lien we are now part of the lawsuit against the owner of the job. I filed the lien before the contractor did. I received a letter s...Read More
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Anonymous Subcontractor
Waiting for answerAdd commentApr 11, 2022
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Im a contractor and my last date of work was late January. Sadly, my collection efforts have failed. I want to lien the residential property but I noticed that
the home sold to new owners a month after I finished work. Can I lien the home even though there is a new owner?
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Anonymous General Contractor
1 answerAdd commentApr 4, 2022
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A company filed an invalid lien on a botched granite counter job after I called them to get the issue resolved and then ignoring my calls for months. They did
not correct the major mistakes made on the job and filed after the 90 day period after installation. I need to get the lien removed as the property...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
Waiting for answerAdd commentMar 23, 2022
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Performing as a sub-sub contractor providing labor, we did not meet the 20 day deadline to provide Notice of Furnishing to the prime & property owner. (We
sent the Notice of Furnishing 6 months after the deadline.) What lien rights are still available to us?
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Anonymous Sub-Subcontractor
Waiting for answerAdd commentDec 27, 2021
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I was hired to fill in a swimming pool and level the yard. After the initial rental of a bobcat and 2 truckloads of dirt plus the last 3 truckloads of dirt and 2 days
of rental costs for another bobcat. Between these I used my own money to buy more dirt (approximately 10 truckloads) and rental of a bobcat ...Read More
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Roger Church
1 answerAdd commentDec 23, 2021
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I own a water mitigation company. I filed a mechanics lien via levelset on the 90th day of the last day on the job (deadline in MI) to collect payment from a
customer. Levelset has issued a notification that as of today, I am past the deadline. Is this correct? Does the lien have to be recorded on the 90...Read More
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Anonymous General Contractor
2 answersAdd commentNov 8, 2021
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I had a masonry contractor repair a brick porch on my house. The repairs are of unacceptable quality, and some areas needing repair were not completed.
the contractor sent their employee twice to supposedly address this, but they only made the situation worse, and still did not complete the repair...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
1 answerAdd commentJul 31, 2020
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Can a contractor file a lien on work that is not yet completed, hasn’t requested payment and I haven’t refused payment. We ere waiting for the last repair in
order for them to finish the carpet. The contractor then filed a lien. How is that legal?
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Anonymous Contractor
3 answersAdd commentSep 3, 2021
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A mechanics lien was filed on our for sale property a person who wanted to buy the property. He has talked for a year about buying the property but when we
let him know we had a cash offer from another buyer he got mad. We offered to sell him the property for $1500 less than the cash offer but he o...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
1 answerAdd commentAug 12, 2021
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I had a contractor work on my kitchen remodel. Start date was suppose to be on 17th of May with an end date two weeks. They completed some work and
then he didn't show up for 3 days within those two weeks. I took a day off from work for him to complete some electrical work and he didn't sho...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
Waiting for answerAdd commentJun 30, 2021
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repairs were performed on my vehicle in Oct 2020. payment was made with a prepaid debit card for $2441. The mechanics card machine didn't batch the
charges until late Nov. 2020. the mechanic received the funds but then the funds were reversed back to the card company because they thought...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
3 answersAdd commentApr 7, 2021
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I hired a company to paint our new home before we moved in. Turns out, he had day workers painting with little experience. I have about 50 pictures worth of
issues. They did a sub par job, broke a couple of small items, didn't rehang any lights or wall plates, didn't complete project, etc. I emailed the ow...Read More
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Anonymous Contractor
1 answerAdd commentJul 8, 2021
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