As a hardworking contractor or repair worker, the last thing you want is to lose out on the money owed to you. At a retail store, a customer doesn’t just walk on home with a product without first paying. But working on a home renovation—be it electric wiring, appliance installation, sheetrock repair, and more—isn’t like […]
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A Guide to Shipping Your Construction Equipment
Shipping Your Construction Equipment Construction equipment is very useful and can often singularly complete tasks without assistance from other machinery. Examples of work they can do are include heavy lifting, digging holes, and flattening of terrain. There is one thing that heavy equipment cannot do alone – relocation. For relocating, we need other large machines […]
Who Can File a Mechanic’s Lien?
You have probably been there before. You contract for a project, put out money for the supplies and labor required for the work, and then wait for payment to come from either the client or the general contractor you worked with on the project. It seems like most of the time the money will arrive, […]
Everything You Need to Know About Construction Lien Releases
The path to a lien release can take many different roads, but they all usually start with the same issue: a construction payment dispute happened. After some attempts at collecting payment, the contractor or supplier that is owed money realizes that time is running out to file a construction lien, and finally decides that now […]
How to Avoid Construction Payment Disputes
One of the biggest headaches of being a contractor is being paid in a timely manner for completed work. Buyers will often bite off more than they can chew and don’t have the budgetary reserve to handle overruns or unforeseen problems. For example, a routine electrical wiring job can become a nightmare if there’s an […]