Have you ever seen this tiny little image next to a project in your LienPilot, the dashboard for Zlien users? It might be the most important feature on your LienPilot, and here’s why: Lien Pilot due dates help you stay compliant When you enter a new project into your LienPilot, our system asks [...]
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Pennsylvania Mechanics Lien Deadline: When Does The Clock Start To Tick?
If you aren’t paid for furnishing labor or materials to a Pennsylvania construction project you may have the right to file a mechanics lien claim to secure that account. Mechanics liens are very important to any construction or supply company because it helps you avoid bad debt. The importance of avoiding bad debt and how [...]
Mechanics Lien Deadlines: The Holidays Can Spoil Your Lien Rights
Thanksgiving leftovers are disappearing from the fridge, there is a chill in the air and it’s now clear: the holidays are here. Anyone over 12 years old knows that the holiday season flies by. We’ll soon be replacing the 2012 calendar with the 2013 edition and running end-of-year financial reports. Unfortunately, mechanics lien deadlines don’t [...]
Challenges of Calculating Mechanics Lien Deadlines For On-Going Work
Calculating mechanics lien deadlines should be straight forward…You start with your last day of furnishing or the completion date for the project (as the case may be), and you count the required number of days and land on your deadline. Easy, right? If you’re a reader of this blog you know that this isn’t ever [...]
When Is A California Construction Project Substantially Complete?
Short Answer: It’s a legal determination ultimately left up to a court, but takes into account a variety of factors. Typically, the most controlling or popular factor is when the property is ready for occupancy. Long Answer: This is the hardest question to answer in California’s mechanics lien law. Unlike the majority of states, a mechanics lien [...]
Dealing With Excuses When Trying To Collect Your Construction Debt
“The check is in the mail.” You’ve heard that one before, right? This phrase has become a legend in the debt collection industry, as well as a rallying cry to describe the frustrations one experiences when trying to collect a debt. The frustrating isn’t exclusive to debt collectors. Credit managers, accountants, small business owners and [...]
Add A Project And Calculate Mechanics Lien Compliance Requirements In Seconds
How awesome would it be if you could calculate all of your mechanics lien and bond claim compliance by inputting a few simple pieces of data about your construction project? Meet Zlien’s LienPilot. Add A Project And Calculate Your Mechanics Lien Requirements Using the LienPilot to calculate your project’s mechanics lien compliance requirements is so [...]
Counting Can Be Hard – Especially for Lien Claimants
We have used a lot of blog space here at the Zlien blog discussing deadlines. Pretty much every aspect of the mechanic’s lien and notice process has some associated deadline; there is a time to send notices, a time to file liens, and a time to initiate an enforcement action. Although it seems like it [...]
Can Mechanics Lien Deadlines Expire While You’re Still On The Project?
This sounds like it has an obvious answer. Of course, lien law nuances prove otherwise as there are some scenarios when your right to file a mechanics lien could actually expire while you’re still performing work or furnishing materials. Scenario 1: You Enter Into Two Contracts On One Project Last week, the Indiana Court of [...]
Disasters Can Be Disastrous To Your Mechanics Lien Deadlines
Last Friday afternoon it was business as usual in New Orleans. Sure there was a hurricane in the Atlantic (Isaac), but hell, it’s August. There are always huricanes in the Atlantic. Material suppliers, subcontractors, architects, general contractors, construction lawyers and all others connected to the construction profession shut their doors and got ready for the [...]
Does This Unique Situation Extend The Period To File Mechanic’s Liens in Louisiana?
Louisiana has a fairly complex set of rules for determining the time period in which a lien claimant’s statement of claim and privilege must be filed. The time period is determined both by the lien claimant’s role in the project, and whether or not a Notice of Contract and Notice of Termination were filed on [...]
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