If they’re not paid for their work, lien claimants can seek court approval to sell the property to collect on the debt. The lien is also a charge on the holdback funds, which are required to be maintained by owners, contractors and other parties in the construction pyramid. Anyone who provides material or labour to your property has the right to place a lien. The excavation contractor hires a couple of labourers to do some hand shovelling and other work. The same holds true for the plumber that didn’t pay for the material supplied to do the rough in.If a lien has been placed, the lender will not advance any more money until the lien is satisfied.

Through your lawyer, you can pay the amount of the lien, plus twenty-five percent of costs, into court. Having paid the lien amount into court, the bank will again be in a first position so that advances can continue. How you preserve your lien depends on if the lien attaches to a piece of real estate or not. In determining the last time of supply of services, you have to look at the last date on which there was work performed upon or in respect of the improvement. It’s now more complicated to preserve a lien than it is to sue directly for the money.

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Then the banks caught on, so if you’re borrowing money to renovate, they may refuse to lend you the last 10% until the work is done. The question that takes 45 days to resolve is who should the loan be paid out to, nothing to do with the quality of the work.

You want to recover as much of what is owed to you at the least net cost, in the shortest possible time. Even the relatively straightforward steps necessary to prosecute a lien claim from registration through to trial can be used by a skilled defence lawyer to defeat an otherwise legitimate claim. By the time the court proceedings are finished, everyone involved loses except the lawyers. Always use a detailed contract, specifying material quality, quantity and labor supplied.

We have been storing the pieces for over a month now.

We have unsuccessfully tried finding out about the owners and contacting them. In your situation, the most likely solution is to sell your goods and keep the deposit. He got angry when we asked him for an installation schedule so we could schedule other trades around him. The kitchen remains unfinished with major deficiencies outstanding that are the contractor’s responsibility to remedy.

To be sure you’re in the clear, it would be wise to consult a lawyer just to be 100% certain. Whatever you do, do not let him back on your property or that 45 day thing starts over again!

Seems there is nothing out there to protect the consumer!

We are a custom home builder and do not know the law applicable in this case.

We hired another contractor to finish off what we could not handle ourselves with the help of handy-family-members. I have perfected the lien & have judgment against the developer, infact they never put up a defense & just ignored any correspondence from any of the lien claimants, there are about 5 liens on this land (im the 2nd) all associated to the sales office. Can they develop on land that has a lien, can a developer even be granted a building permit?

Without the lien system, builders would have a greater risk than owners. But what can a home builder do if the homeowner does not pay?

Construction liens give anyone providing labour and material supply a legal claim on the land and property where they are working, much like a bank does when it takes a mortgage in return for lending money. A construction lien is, in essence, a charge or security on the premises improved in favour of a party who has contributed to the enhancement of value to the lands. After the first day, the workers get fired for loafing on the job, and the contractor does not pay them. The supplier can place a lien against your property for money owed by the plumber.

If you cannot reach an equitable solution with the lien registrant, you can pursue the matter in court and have your project continue. The caveat will then he removed from your land title, and the lender will again advance funds.

You will have the opportunity to challenge the lien in court. Once you have preserved your lien, you will then need to perfect the lien within 45 days. What are the time limits for filing a construction lien?

You do not look at attendances to fix deficiencies in the subcontractor’s or supplier’s work. Then the lawyers got a hold of it and figured out how to abuse and counter-abuse the system, and answered their own abuses with ever more complicated laws. On top of that, the holdback concept was introduced to protect homeowners against liens, which were originally meant to protect builders against owners who did not pay. This is supposed to represent the “notional profit” for all of the companies involved in the renovation. Here are some excerpts from the act that you should be familiar with. From the contractor’s perspective, getting paid is something that is easier to say than it is to do. Not the least of the frustrations encountered in reaching this goal is the delay and expense involved in the litigation process. The best way to avoid liens is to keep everything in writing and communicate openly with everyone involved.

We had an oral contract with the builder, who paid a small deposit. The best solution for you would be to sell your stuff to someone else.

You can try and enforce the contract with the builder or you sue them for breach of contract. The tenant (a convenience store), paid the contractor who has failed to pay all the suppliers. The last invoices the contractor failed to pay in full sighting the milestones were not a 100% completed. I was then informed that the contractor felt he paid out more monies then work completed at which point we stopped all work trying to resolve the matter. I have met with him since to seek money from him and tells we are even. If this is not done then it would constitute a breach and give way to seek compensation. I have paid 50% of the project, are they entitled to anything else?

Our kitchen contractor took 4 months to install after telling us it would take 3-4 days.

We have sent a demand letter, but are getting the run around from his paralegal and no further contract from the contractor. Up until that point he was on site and/or in contact with us daily. The 7 buildings are now sold out, the development of the first phase is set to start, and it will be developed on the adjacent land that the lien is on. Town is on the developers side as these projects are to boost up the city. What do you think my chances of collecting are, does the town have any right to remove the lien without forcing the developer to pay. I have worked with many middle class and even some that could not afford but the made it work and happily paid their bill.

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