Fair questions. Straight answers.
What contractors ask first about lien rights, deadlines, and how Lienlink handles them.
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Lienlink runs the lien-rights lifecycle on your jobs: it calculates every notice and filing deadline for the state the job is in, generates the current statutory form from your job data, mails it certified with proof of delivery, and keeps an audit trail of all of it. You connect your job data once; the deadlines take care of themselves.
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In most states, yes. It matters most if you're a subcontractor or supplier without a direct contract with the owner. Many states make a timely preliminary notice a precondition of lien rights: skip it, and you can't lien later no matter how much you're owed. The notice isn't aggressive; it's routine paperwork that keeps your options open.
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Every rule Lienlink runs is authored against the primary statute for that state, reviewed and approved by counsel, and pinned to the exact statutory text by hash. When a job is created, its state's clocks start from the relevant trigger dates (first furnishing, completion, invoice) and alerts fire well before any window closes.
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Rules are authored for all 50 states, and our state reference pages roll out as each state's content clears legal review. See the state coverage page for what's live; the app tracks deadlines in every state regardless.
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Connect AccuLynx and jobs and payments sync automatically. You can also upload from a spreadsheet or enter jobs directly. Either way, the deadline clock starts from the job data, so nobody has to remember to start tracking.
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Yes, and it's built for it. Notices generate per account and per state cadence, including states like Texas that require recurring monthly notices, without adding credit department headcount. Your exposure per project, covered or not, sits on one dashboard tied to the ledger.
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You pay per document (a preliminary notice, lien filing, amendment, or release) with certified mail and tracking included. Tracking deadlines costs nothing. There are no seats, subscriptions, or minimums; see the pricing page for current rates.
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If our error costs you a lien right, we pay the unpaid balance on that job. Not a refund, not a credit. We can offer that because every deadline traces to a counsel-approved rule pinned to the statute that sets it. See the guarantee page for how a claim works.
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Preliminary notices are standard practice in construction; owners, lenders, and GCs process them routinely. A professional, on-time notice usually reads as a well-run back office. Lienlink sends the statutory form, nothing more aggressive than the law prescribes.
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No. Lienlink is not a law firm, and nothing on this site or in the product is legal advice. Our rules are authored and reviewed with counsel, but for advice on your specific situation, consult a construction attorney licensed in your state.
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