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Your right to get paid on a job can slip away on paperwork, long before anyone says no to the invoice.
Notices, sworn statements and waivers for Lapeer County businesses sent and tracked on every job, so your lien rights are there when you need them.
2,151
Businesses in lapeer county
Listings a customer can find here
34%
Licensed
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You finished the work months ago for a general contractor on a house in Lapeer County. Now the GC has stopped answering, the owner says they already paid in full, and your attorney asks the question you dread: did you send a notice of furnishing?
With lien tracking in place, every job gets its notice of commencement pulled and its notice of furnishing served on time to the right people. Waivers go out conditional until money clears, sworn statements get prepared when the owner or GC asks, and every deadline sits on one calendar someone actually watches.
Most jobs pay without a fight, and the paperwork just sits in the file. On the few that do not, your rights are intact, the documents are ready and your attorney can act fast instead of telling you it is too late.
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We set up every active job with owner, GC, lender and property details.
Notices go out on time with proof of delivery saved to each job.
At every draw we prepare the right waiver and hold unconditional ones until payment clears.
We track each job's dates and alert you and your attorney before rights expire.
What we report every month: Jobs with notices served on time, Waivers issued and pending payment, Upcoming lien deadlines, and Draws held for paperwork.
The act lets contractors, subs and suppliers who improve a property claim a lien to secure payment, as long as they follow its steps on time. Owners record a notice of commencement, many lower-tier contractors and suppliers must serve a notice of furnishing, and a claim of lien has to be recorded within a set window after the last work. Miss a step and the right can be lost, which is why it has to be tracked job by job.
If you do not contract directly with the owner, the act generally requires you to serve a notice of furnishing on the owner or lessee and the general contractor within a short window after you first furnish labor or materials. Sending it is routine and rarely upsets anyone. Skipping it can cost you the right to lien that job.
A conditional waiver gives up lien rights only once a payment actually clears. An unconditional waiver gives them up the moment you sign, paid or not. Signing unconditional waivers before the money is in your account is one of the most common ways contractors lose their protection on a job.
Owners and lenders often require a sworn statement listing every sub and supplier on the job, what each is owed and what has been paid. A late or wrong sworn statement can hold up an entire draw. Built from your job costs and supplier records, it goes out right the first time.
The number of active jobs, how many notices and waivers each one needs and whether you work as a GC, sub or supplier set the price. Residential and commercial jobs follow different rules, which changes the work. We quote a fixed monthly fee after a short call. We are not a law firm, and recorded claims and legal advice come from construction attorneys we work with.
Works until the one job that goes bad, when a missing notice can no longer be fixed.
Right for claims and disputes, heavy and costly for routine notices and waivers.
Every notice, waiver and deadline handled on a schedule, with construction attorneys we work with for claims and advice.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Lapeer County businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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