The plumber I hired had a mitigation specialist come to my house to assess water damage and I signed documents for them to run a claim through my home insurance. Within 48 hours they wanted to demo my kitchen and bathroom before my claim was approved. I emailed company and called stating...Read More...Read More
I am a subcontractor working on a commercial project. My GC and I had a personal dispute, (the GC failed to pay me for 5 months on an unrelated job for the State of Arizona, and my "letter of intent to lien" gave notice to all interested parties of their failure to pay their subcontractor- this resulted i...Read More...Read More
I'm working in Arizona on a commercial job, and was hired by the restaurant manager. Is the restaurant manager considered the GC or the Owner Designee on this project?...Read More
We are a commercial general contractor in AZ. We recently completed work on (and were paid by owner for) a project that we had filed a prelim notice for with no issues . Last month an amendment to the original contract was created and executed for a completely new scope of work on the buildin...Read More...Read More
I am a subcontractor that provided labor for green house construction as well as general farm labor to X Farm. I Did not send the 20 day prelim notice. I have a contract with X farm. what can i do to put a lien on blossom farm?...Read More
What does a "real exception is wage earners" of #1 of this artical mean? I am not a contractor and did various work for the owner of the property(i.e. painting, built shelving, did yard work, cleaning, etc.) just about anything that did not require a license. Did I need to file a 20 day preliminary lien?...Read More
Hello, We had a sub-contractor & general complain to us about sending prelim notices to owners on owner occupied dwellings. In this instance the owner purchase the land and are building a home, per Arizona law this is considered an occupied dwelling. The General on the project mentioned that ...Read More...Read More
I am an Auto Mechanic and I own the business. I am just barely getting my business license. I have a customer who is not paying. I did not know about the 20 day preliminary form so I never mailed one. Am I still able to get a lien on this vehicle? Also am I required to send out the 20 day form? If so sho...Read More...Read More
We are an Arizona general contractor. Our client is refusing to make the final payment. We just moved here this year and we were not aware that we have to give preliminary notice no more than 20 days after starting the project. Are there any remedies we have to still file a lien and get paid? Lisa ...Read More...Read More
I am subcontractor that provides shotcrete services in AZ. The amount due$5720.Customer paid $4000 leaving a balance of $1720.Does it matter if the 20-day notice shows $5720 instead of the remaining balance? ...Read More
We are an equipment supplier and need to know: Is the project start date is that the date the first piece of equipment SHIPPED or DELIVERED? Is the project end date the date that the last piece of equipment SHIPPED or DELIVERED?...Read More
We prepared drawings for a contractor in Canada in anticipation of a supply and install contract in conjunction with the project. When they failed to contract us, we billed them for our drawings (since we found out they were using them to provide to other contractors to build our system) . They have fa...Read More...Read More
We are a General Contractor in the State of AZ. The Preliminary Notice that was sent to our client has a notarial certificate on the last page that appears to be for the recipient to sign at the time of receipt of the notice . Is this a required step for the document to be valid? Am I required to have the...Read More...Read More
We are a GC and commenced work last week at a project for which we have entered into a cost plus agreement with the owner. Since we don't have a specific dollar amount on our contract, are we to use what we believe will be the total based on our initial schedule of values? At this point, it is j...Read More...Read More
I'm a subcontractor and have been working with a larger GC who has been stringing us out of the last 3 months. I need to know how to get paid after already signing a contract....Read More