I am the project manager for the property owner. We recently completed a project, and the General Contractor has been paid in full for the contract total and provided an unconditional lien waiver. However, one of their subcontractors reached out to me saying they had not been paid and that they ...Read More...Read More
I am the project owner or a commercial renovation. We require lien waivers from our General Contractor and each of their subcontractors at the end of every project. During this particular project, our GC fired a subcontractor. They were paid through their termination date, and I have a conditiona...Read More...Read More
My company is a GC on a Construction Project. Our Subcontractor, who we are contracted with, has a court case against them, and because of that my company was ordered to not release payment to them. In an effort to prevent the Subcontractor's vendor (who is owed money) from putting a li...Read More...Read More
I’m working with lending home who rejected a draw request saying that the contractor lien release needs to be notarized. The first draw release went through no issue and not notarized. Everything thing I read or colleague I talk to says NYS does not require this mike...Read More
We had a dispute with a contractor years ago about work done to our home. His last date of work on our home was Dec 2018. This year we listed our home for sale and miraculously, the contractor somehow feels he has a right to collect on work he never finished. He falsified and filed a Mechanics Lie...Read More...Read More
I am a subcontractor and we are looking to start a new project however the contract will list the owner as "abcd condominium c/o abcd abcd abcd" I want to make sure if there were anything to happen and for any reason we were not to be paid on time How do we file a lien if needed against this buildi...Read More...Read More
We are in a bit of a tricky situation with our first filed lien. Our client is now asking us to sign lien waivers and split 3rd party payment agreements that specifically are stating that no liens have been placed to our knowledge, but there have been and they know this. The only alternative suggestio...Read More...Read More
We wonder if a lien waiver only pertains payment for material and services provided or also for other costs (e.g. open demurrage claims) that the general contractor owes a supplier. ...Read More
Hello, we received a partial lien waiver from the client to sign and the value on that document is $1. Payment that we are expecting to receive is $110,000.00. We asked client to amend this dollar value to the actual amount due and their response was: The waiver is approved by both our at...Read More...Read More
A contractor wants me, (a subcontractor), to commit to sighing unconditional waivers before I actually receive my payments. I know that this is illegal in some states and I want to know what the law is in NYS and NJ. ...Read More
My documents are being mailed today/tomorrow to all parties. The customers lawyer reached out today and sent a copy of our check and is requesring we bring the final lien waiver and collect the check. Do we try to have the lien released now or let it go thru and then have it removed (assuming the...Read More...Read More