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I am an independent commercial truck mechanic. I do not have a signed contract with this customer but i do have a steady history of paid invoices for work with this customer. I recently had them verbally agree to pay a bill on 2 occasions, after the repairs to their vehicle were made they decided to not pay the bill. Is a mechanics lien my best option to recoup my losses (est $4800 before interest applied)
PennsylvaniaHello so me and my partner own a concrete construction business we recently completed a project for a home owner and he is refusing to pay the remaining balance of the work we have completed we do not have a written contract I was wondering if we are able to pursue a lein with out a written contract?
WyomingI painted a vehicle for a customer, in the middle of the build he passed, he left no will so now I'm not sure what to do.
TexasI contacted property owner to see if they were interested in selling property they have not been to in many years and was told yes and agreed on 17k and was told to go ahead and do what I wanted to do with it as it was mine now ,so I did tons of tree work to get up to city ordinance. I have many hours of labor and receipts from hiring others for services. There’s well over 10 k in my time and hired time. As time went on I tried to pay cash to owner but she wanted a realtor to drive with me 4 hours away to fo papers and I don’t know any realtors willing do go so I had one contract her . She then would not answer calls for a month or so then she did and said everything is good but she now wants more. I agreed to the new price of 18 k because it’s connected to my property and I don’t want anyone else to build in my view. Then I don’t hear from her until she and her son in law and his wife show up at my house and we discussed me attempting to pay her over and over and they agreed to call me to discuss more about everything because I think the woman is not 100% comprehensive. I have attempted contacting all of them many times but no response so I don’t know what’s going on and afraid they will sell it while I have already invested much time and money into property . What do I do?
CaliforniaI’ve repaired a customer’s boat and will probably need to file a lien to get paid. I can then sell the customer’s boat right? Can I sue the customer if I don’t get enough money to cover the repairs? If I get extra money from selling the boat an I required to refund it to the customer?
FloridaI wrote a check "payment in full" for a dispute with my general contractor on the very top of the check and on the bottom in the memo line. The contractor scratched off the language - payment in full in the memo section but left the language on the top of the check.
Can I make a case that it was an accord and satisfaction with the court because the language "payment in full" was still evidenced on the face of the check?
CaliforniaI am a steel subcontractor working on a public job in Alabama. I have two separate "contracts" for this job. A purchase order for the steel materials and a subcontract for the steel field erection services. The GC has had all kinds of problems on this job and is likely facing some liquidated damages. As such they are looking for every possible pocket to back charge including mine. No matter how false the claims, they are using a "throw it against the wall" approach and see what sticks. Yesterday the informed me they are holding payment until they can confirm or argue many of their so called "back charges" for delays.
So, I would like to file liens to protect myself. (a) do I need to file separate liens for the PO and the subcontract? I would think I would? (b) I currently have billing that is 20 days past due and more coming due in about 15 days. Can I only file for the past due amounts or should I file for all amounts due?
Thanks,
AlabamaContractor has failed to pay me the entire amount.
NebraskaI 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. Now they are filing a lien as i refuse to pay for unsatisfactory work. There was no written contract. How do I challenge the validity of the lien?
MichiganMy wife and I inherited my recently deceased step-father's landscaping business. We are shutting it down. We have one affluent customer who is refusing to pay a $46k bill. She signed a release of work at a per man per hour rate (which I have). She used more man hours than she anticipated (this was during the ice storm earlier this year). She says that she doesn’t think that our employees worked as many hours as they are claiming. Looks like we've missed the lien deadline. Anything we can do?
TexasI recently fired my general contractor for defaulting on our construction agreement. We had a fixed price contract for renovation of the home I currently occupy. I have offered to make a final payment which covers the outstanding balance for work completed but the contractor is angry and demanding a much larger sum that does not correspond to work completed or to the schedule of values for the contract. This is a lender financed project so the amount of the final payment is limited to the value of work that the lender's inspector could document as completed.
I am concerned the contractor is going to file a construction lien for the amount he asserts he is owed beyond what I can pay. To protect myself from this I filed a notice of contract termination. More than 60 days has passed since that filing. From the clerk's records I learned that he did not file our contract (with a fixed price greater than $100,000) until after I filed the termination notice. He also started work 6 weeks before we signed a contract which the contract itself notes. Does the contractor have lien rights against me? Can I cancel a lien because the contract was improperly filed?
LouisianaHello,
My company supplied and installed cabinets in a home that was damaged by a flood. We were hired by a restoration company. After our job was completed the company refused to pay us, saying the other contractors are not complete and the clients insurance will not pay till the job is signed off of the home owner. This was in April. After many attempts to collect the money after we were notified by the home owner the restoration company has been paid and we have not received payment, In fact the owner flat out said he was not going to pay us. What is the next step we can take to attempt to get our money? We are a small business owner and we did not anticipate having to put a lien on the property so we did not send the any lien notices.
TexasHello,
A Lien was filed against a customer of mine form a contractor who failed to complete a job successfully. Since we do not want to go through a legal mess we are willing to pay the technician (even though the work was not complete nor done correctly. The technician has added "legal" fees along with fees for filing the lien.
Please assist.
OklahomaI has stone put on the front of my house.
The contractor over charging, had unacceptable poor workmanship, and damaged my property
Now he threatens to put a lien on my house.
IowaI am an Architect in Texas. I have a client who is holding back half of my fee on a completed set of plans. What are the deadline requirements for sending him lien notice, perhaps with a demand letter. I was under the impression that since I am working under a signed contract, directly with this property owner, that there is not a deadline.
Texas