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We just had a big driveway and retaining wall project completed. The general contractor tells me that his lien waiver to me covers me for the whole job. I thought a main reason for lien waivers was for the subcontractors and suppliers to insure me they have been paid.
MissouriWe have a commercial job that we completed work on in TX in September or October. The contractor that we were a supplier for has not paid the final invoice. However we did not file any statutory notice prior to beginning the job early last year. Is that strictly required in TX? Have we missed the deadline to file a lien?
TexasIf I am currently working on a project and have not received payment, Would I have to stop working completely in order to send a letter of intent to lien or mechanics lien? Would are the right steps to take, and can they back charge me if I do stop work due to non-payment?
IllinoisWe are a wholesale company located in GA and supplied material to our customer who now owes us money for the material. He apparently was contracted to do a job in TN and the contractor/owner is out of Illinois and he is now asking our company to sign the below Illinois lien waiver. We do not feel comfortable doing so but, he is telling us it is needed in order for us to get paid and that the company that contracted him is going to be paying us with a check made payable to us and to his company. Please tell me i am correct in NOT signing this. MATERIAL WAIVER OF LIEN TO DATE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: WHEREAS the undersigned has been employed by_______________________________________________________ To furnish For the premises known as Of which is the owner. THE undersigned, for and in consideration of ($ ) Dollars, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged , do(es) hereby waive and release any and all lien or claim of, or right to, lien, under the statutes of the State of Illinois, relating to mechanics’ liens, with respect to and on said above-described premises, and the improvements thereon, and on the material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery furnished, and on the moneys, funds or other considerations due or to become due from the owner, on account of all labor services, material, fixtures, apparatus or machinery, furnished to this date by the undersigned for the above-described premises, including extras.* DATE COMPANY NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE AND TITLE NOTARY: * EXTRAS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CHANGE ORDERS, BOTH ORAL AND WRITTEN, TO THE CONTRACT.
IllinoisI'm a subcontractor in AZ whose vendor is refusing to sign a lien waiver because a Preliminary 20-Day Notice has not been filed on the job. Our customer is refusing to release payment without the waiver. Is our vendor obliged to provide a waiver regardless of not filing a Prelim?
ArizonaCan we eliminate the paragraph regarding calling the contractor to verify if the signature is valid? This appears to only be referring to residential work and we are a commercial contractor only performing commercial contracting. We have a General Contractor who won't accept our waivers and defend themselves by stating they don't have the time to call every subcontractor to verify if the signature is correct.
MichiganI completed work for a client over 2 months ago. One month ago I inquired about my payment and was told that it would be taken care of. I waited another month and now they are asking for a signed lien waiver and the first one they sent was unconditional what do I do?
FloridaI did the hangfinish and paint on a very large residential shop and have 1 day of painting left to be complete and owner says he's not paying anymore . Says I've been paid. I am owed 2600 for this but we also made a 5600 dollar agreement apart but the owner snuck around doing some of the things and I did some.of the things. Can I file a lean. I owe labor to 6 people and they are expecting thier money soon. The owner and I speak every day and I didn't even take weekends off . We were on good terms and then this. Need my money and the work I did is very professional
MissouriWe own a small commercial building in st. louis county in missouri. We have lien wavers from many contractors from the year 2010 when the building was renovated for a new tenant. Both tenant and landlord paid for the renovations. I am trying to purge my bulging files. Can I now safely throw them away? Lucy
MissouriHello
I am a client of yours with an active account and need to get unconditional release of lien forms signed by every employee on the job. Is this form different than the unconditional release for a contractor?
I am a subcontractor, who hired a subcontractor. I put their guys on our payroll to make certain they were paid in full for all of the work they did, but I do not want them coming back on me in case they were promised something like a bonus on the job by the subcontractor I hired.
Do you have a specific form for this?
Thanks
Bob French
949-291-4065
seacoreindustrial@sbcglobal.net
LouisianaOur customer is asking for releases of lien on invoices that we did not send a NTO I told them we are not obligated he keeps coming back. so are we obligated to do it ?
Floridawhat if i have a contract that specafies that a mechanics lein is probable and expected to be done do i still sent a notice and what if the owner ignores the letter
ArizonaWe are a subcontractor with an agreement to provide services during the Project Development Phase. After requesting preliminary notice information, the contracts manager for the prime contractor noted that since this is a PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE project, the preliminary requirements are not the same as actual construction. They are requiring us to provide lien releases. How do we protect ourselves for this phase of services/work? File a preliminary notice for this phase/type of work? Then file again if/when contract work is secured for the actual project?
CaliforniaI am a subcontractor on a large commercial project and I am being told by the General Contractor that the owner needs all of our subs and suppliers to provide unconditional progress releases for the invoice month in order to process our invoice for payment. However, many of our subs and suppliers on this project are stating that they will not provide a release because they did not file a preliminary notice on the project and they do not have the project setup with a job number in their system either. My question is: If our subs and suppliers did not file a preliminary notice and do not have the job setup in their system, do they have to still provide us with an unconditional progress release when asked to by the GC and owner?
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