Many in the construction industry know that California is a state in which notices are required to be sent. Not as many people know that its neighbor, Nevada, is also notice state. In fact, both preliminary notices and notices of intent to lien are required in Nevada and lien rights will often times [...]
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Notice Of Intent To Lien: Great Tool For Getting Paid!
A great tool that I always reference on the Zlien website is the Charts & White Papers page. There are a number of helpful resources on this page. Today I will discuss the map regarding the summary of construction notice requirements. In particular, this map indicates states where a Notice of Intent to Lien is [...]
Texas Construction Notices: A Simple Explanation To Help You Protect Lien Rights
Why are the Texas Mechanics Lien and Construction Notice laws so confusing? It is apparent that these laws are clearly the most clumsy in the nation, and unfortunately, the confusion is simply the victim of very poor drafting by the Texas legislators. We can all cross our fingers that the state will one day clean [...]
Illinois Mechanics Lien: How To File Your Claim and Get Paid
Filing a mechanics lien in Illinois, just like in any other state, can be a technical and error-prone task. As we’ve stated over and over again on this blog, mistakes are common, and they can be fatal to the effectiveness of your claim. This article guides you step-by-step on filing an Illinois mechanics lien claim, [...]
How To Collect On An Overdue Invoice in the Construction or Building Supply Industries
Credit and collection professionals, collection agencies and agents, attorneys and absolutely everyone in the ARM industry will tell you the same thing about aging receivables: start collection actions as soon as possible. It’s a clear fact that an overdue account becomes less collectable each day that collection efforts are postponed. But where do you begin? [...]
Why Customers Don’t Pay And What To Do When It Happens
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are confronted with two challenges: (i) Getting more and more business; and (ii) Losing less and less money. It’s funny, but running a successful company really boils down to doing these two things well. Your company probably has something it produces, and if the customer pays for it your [...]
Color Coded Map of Nationwide Notice Requirements
Filing a mechanics lien is a great credit and collections tool, but there are a lot of compliance requirements tied to the remedy. Sometimes, notices must be sent at the start of construction (preliminary notices). Sometimes, notices must be sent at the end of construction before a mechanics lien is filed (notice of intent to [...]
Colorado Notice of Intent To Lien Effective Upon Mailing
Yesterday I wrote a short article on why Sending a Colorado Notice of Intent to Lien Requires Planning. The reason? Because it is due before the mechanics lien can be filed, and requires a ten day waiting period. There is a legal question buried in this discussion, however, that goes unanswered in that article. The [...]
Colorado Notice of Intent To Lien Requires Planning
A client recently contacted us with questions about Colorado’s Notice of Intent to Lien requirement, and specifically about the timing of sending this notice. After careful consideration of the question I realized that the Colorado Notice of Intent to Lien requirement is an easy one to meet, but that it requires a bit of advanced [...]
Mechanics Lien v. Notice of Intent to Lien: What’s The Difference?
The name of these documents should give away most of the answer, but still it can be confusing to distinguish these two documents and figure out which is the best for your particular situation. It certainly doesn’t help that each state calls the “mechanics lien” by a different moniker, and sometimes the names of these [...]
Notice Of Intent To Lien May Be Enough To Get You Paid
The Notice of Intent To Lien is a beautiful document, and it may be just the right thing to get your company paid quick, without the hassles and expense of filing a mechanics lien. While the notice may not be formally required (it usually isn’t), this blog post outlines two reasons why the Notice of [...]
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