I work for a company that is a subcontractor for a commercial project in OR. The job is around 93% complete. We want to file a mechanic's lien for this project. The Levelset system is telling me that our Notice of Rights to Lien expired on 5/3/22. I don't believe we sent that notice. Is this required to lien? Can we still lien? The project began in April 2022....Read More
I was not paid for a siding job on a residentual home and recorded a lien on the propery and now levelset is saying i need to file for a lawsuit...Read More
I hired a contractor to reface kitchen cabinets. When he showed me the sample cabinet it was wrong color. He is refusing to fix it. I don't want the color he painted. I told him to change the color to what I wanted. He is refusing and said he is going to file contractors lien. My kitchen is all torn apart, drawers are gone, no water, no stove, half of the counter tops are gone. Can he file a lien? What are my options?...Read More
My customer bonded out of a lien to sell their property. Do I refile the same lien or do I have to place a claim on the bond? I’m unclear on what my next step is....Read More
I have a contractor that never finished a job. I made many attempts to work with the contractor for 30 days to complete the job, but they were unwilling to work. They are now threatening a lien on my property (although they have never even billed me for the job). I have since hired another company to come in and completely redo the job that starts next week. If they do file a lien, do I get a chance to file the documentation that I have that shows they didn't finish, nor even accomplish any of the line items on the contract? They also were unlicensed while performing the work. I'm not sure if it is an idol threat or what. I feel like I'm dealing with a Nigerian Prince type of operation. But am a little concerned that they might actually file a lien. And I don't know what it takes to fight such a lien....Read More
Is it necessary for a general contractor hired by a property owner to send a notice of intent to lien before they file a mechanics lien? If you don't send the notice of intent, will that affect the lien if it's been filed?...Read More
I'm a service provider/sub to a prime on a contract that is under dispute of whether it falls under the private or public work umbrella. The prime hired us to clean a parking lot that they only leased so they could use it for a staging area for a public works project, but when we filed a claim with the bonding company it was denied. The prime assured us that they would pay in full multiple times on the phone and even made a partial payment, but now will not communicate, respond to communications or make payments against what they owe. Now we are past the mechanic's lien deadline and Oregon Construction Contractor's Board filing deadlines. Do we still have any options?
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Received "Notice to file lean" from a contractor. I had never heard of this contractor, certainly had not hired him.
Turns out, my contractor had hired him, without my knowledge to do some work.
There was a disagreement about the job between them and now I am in the middle of it.
Does the "Unknown" contractor have the right to file a lean ?
Thank you
Keith Bishop...Read More
Is a notice of lien, Notice of procedure, and Consumer protection notice required to be sent to the owner of the property for any job that we do in the state of Oregon?...Read More
We have an issue with a guy who did work for our company. He is not an employee or a subcontractor. The best description would be day labor. Anyway, He is all upset and thinks he wasn't paid enough and has served the home owner an "Intent to Lien" paper. I have real doubts about the validity of this paper. I don't think it was filed with the court but on the chance it was we need some information. We have no idea what he's claiming beyond what he's said because only the home owner got the paper. The contract for the roof was between the customer and the company. It has nothing to do with the roofer himself. I guess my real question is can he do this? And what are the requirements if he can?
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I'll try to keep it simple. My son and DIL, who live in CA, and with my influence, purchased an investment house in Portland, OR, 3 years ago - that I use as a part time residence. I reside in a nice basement ADU - which I completed during it's remodel, last year. I hired a one man contractor and paid him the first 2 payments progress payments and withheld the final payment. He did not complete the contract and missed his Nov. 2020 completion deadline - coming to (near) completion in July 2021. I put in the HVAC at my own cost, since he wouldn't. I paid other contractors to correct a few minor things. His contract specifically lists what was expected of him. His reason for missing his deadline was to take on more lucrative jobs (he admitted). I was texting him daily to see if he would show up! He cost me time, anguish, massive depression, and 7 months of lost rent - which was financially devastating!
He filed a mechanics lien on the house on Nov. 24th. I am not on the house title. This is about to become an issue as my son just began the process of doing a cash out refinance. The contractor has 120 days to file a lawsuit to perfect - I believe. I think I need to bond off - which is supposed to be costly (I have yet to look into it). My son has no knowledge of this contractor - but the court would declare me his agent by default. All my son knows is that I am doing improvements - as I have in the past - no specifics.
I think I have to be proactive and file a small claims lawsuit for the $10K court limit. His lien is for $21K.
Do you have any suggestions? Are there any other approaches? I emailed him a goodwill offer of settling for $8000, a few weeks ago.
Google can only get me so far - but at least small claims is familiar and has been a productive resource for me.
Thanks, all!...Read More
We are trying to file a Lien in Oregon. We were contracted by someone who told us she was the owner. We have notified her of rights to lien and told her we will be filing one. But 12 hours ago she informed us she is not the owner after 60 days of her representing herself as the owner. We found out upon research it is owned by her family trust. How do we proceed....Read More
I am a contractor operating as an S Corp. I filed a lien against client who didn’t pay despite the work done well and completed. Deadline passed at this point. Just realized I put my own name as Claimant, not my company name. Was this a mistake? Could it invalidate my claim? The client job contract signed had my signature on it (same signature as on the lien paper)....Read More
I am a handyman who's done tons of work we're talking 70 plus hours a week for 2 months and when it came time to get paid the owner all of a sudden decided no they weren't happy with the work the last second and said they're not paying me anything and I just have to deal with it when the entire time they were loving every little bit of it can I file a lien it's in Oregon...Read More
My Contractor is charging me for overhead a d profit for work I paid my contractors to do. There is fine print in the contract saying they will keep the profit and overhead for work we do not have them do that is in the insurance scope bid. Am I out of luck that’s like 8k-12k for nothing. Is that even legal? I’m in Oregon...Read More