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Contractor ruined my floors, walls, flooded the house, cut holes in the wrong spots in the tub insert. He was in my home May-July (he stated this job would take 3 days) we had no contract signed and was told to complete the job or he would be let go with no pay at all. Once he left you still could not use the shower. Now I see we have a mechanical lien on my house.
What can I do?
OhioI was framing a house for a contractor and Big Sky the concrete for the job was supposed to be done in May and was not completed until December and still not 100% completed the contractor refused to let me go do another job so that I can stay fed pretty much can I file a lien on the property in the state of Montana without filing a preliminary notice or can I still file the preliminary notice now he kicked me off the job on December 15 for not being there but he had the excavators tearing up the whole job site and multiple guys were injured from climbing over the mounds of dirt and alsoWe’re unable to work due to Covid that we believe they got from the architects secretary who was tested positive for Covid and came to our job site, several times I was asked to drive up to the job site which is an hour and a half drive to unload materials majority of the time they were not even for framing and I am the framing contractor also I had put in 178 man hours with my lift and my guys assisting the concrete guys and I was asked to do so by the contractor and they refused to pay me for it all the materials for the job have never been there And all the take offs for materials were not there or incomplete also his secretary coming to the job site knowingly positive for Covid and while doing so one of my workers had also gotten Covid recently after and his major complaint was that guys were not on site and the reasoning is because of Covid and because he had our job site torn apart by the excavators and multiple times have my guys been injured trying to work over and around the excavators this job was supposed to be a summer job early summer and it wasBid for that end it is now the middle of winter and concrete has just barely been finished and I have lost all my major contracts because of this and the months that I make all my money what are all my things that I can make the bond amount for on this lein
MontanaI just received a release of Mechanics lien bond from the Contractor. Can someone advise what this means?
GeorgiaWhat are the steps to file a 20-day notice(show cause)?
FloridaI filed liens through levelset. They bonded them to have them removed. What is the next step?
Thanks,
Jeff Bischoff
GeorgiaThe article you sent says there is more that needs to be done to protect our claim. What needs to be done?
IllinoisI have a woman who has done very little work on my house and is filing a mechanic's lien against my property. She does not have a contractor's license.
South CarolinaI am looking to be represented to fight a lien being placed on my residential property in massachusett.
MassachusettsI am a property owner and fired my GC and he in return filed a mechanics lien on my property. All the work that they had performed was paid in full, they stopped midway the project so the rest of the work scope was not done, therefore, not paid. He filed an initial lien for $130k, then amended the lien to $30k, and when I filed a complaint with the CSLB, he then filed a new lien of $130k. I want to sell this property asap but I am not sure of what I can do at this point to remove the lien. I have reached out to them in order to mediate and come to an agreement but they have not responded.
I fired them in March, they filed the first lien right away, then amended it in July and placed in a new lien in August. What can I do in this case?
CaliforniaWe have a customer requesting a credit limit of roughly $26,000 and we are using ask for this jobsite information. But they gave us the bond information instead of the jobsite.
TexasI am looking to bond over a mechanic's lien on a residential single family property in New York. The New York lien law seems vague on the process. What documents have to be served to the lienor after the bond is filed with the county clerk? What is the time frame for service? Lien law doesn't seem to require the filing an affidavit of service after the lienor is served, is that correct? It seems the bond isn't "effective" until the lienor is served? How would a title company know that the lienor was served?
New YorkI am the beneficiary to the owner of a vehicle. It has a lien on the title that I'm trying to get a certified copy of. The company who has a mechanics lien on the title has failed to answer or respond to any affidavit. They now repossessed my vehicle. I've received a bond affidavit of claim from the companies insurance bond company. Does recoding that with the district court allow me to get a release of lien?
TexasI work in Monterey county and I provide a variety of services for homeowners, small and midsized contractors. They use my services on a as needed basis, simply because they cannot afford my services full time, their margins will not allow it. The presentation as I understand it, is directed at subcontractors. The talk was thorough and informative. The law and fillings are of the same ilk. For the businesses that I work with it seems that they cannot provide the capital or time to engage this legal process.
My point is what does a legal process like this cost, how much time should a subcontractor expect for this action to conclude and the plaintiff to be paid? Is there a breakeven point calculation that would help them decide the value of the endeavor?
thanks for your time and consideration.
Californiamy contractor has threatened a lien.. We did not pay our final payment on the two baths he remodeled. One came out great, but the second has terrible tile work, which the contractor refuses to make right, even though admitting it is bad.
IllinoisWe have used this contractor for all our clients, and have had no problems..This past fall we hired him to remodel our two baths in our Condo, ( while we were gone for the winter. one bath came out beautiful, but the other has all mismatched tiles.. just a terrible job. We communicated with the foreman via e-mail messages and photos he sent.. We asked why the tile was all mismatched, with no response.
When we returned the owner meet with us, and said and i quot " you dont notice it as much when the shower door is closed, because the glass diffuses it."
We have made all the payments required, except for the last on , on this bath.. He refuses, to make it right, and has threaten us with a contractors lien.
Robert Laskov
Illinois