{"id":979,"date":"2012-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/what-information-must-be-included-in-a-alaska-mechanics-lien\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:06:48","slug":"what-information-must-be-included-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html","title":{"rendered":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should you need to enforce the mechanic&#8217;s lien, you must be careful that the information included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien<\/a> is valid and will not void the lien.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every day, I am asked if the cost of filing a lien is allowed to be included in the amount due listed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/mechanics-lien-faq.asp\" target=\"_blank\">mechanic&#8217;s lien<\/a>.&nbsp; Alaska law specifically states that the amount&nbsp;able to be claimed in a lien is\u201cthe contract amount\u201d.&nbsp; Anything included in the contract price is allowed to be included in the lien amount, anything not included in the contract price will void the lien if included in the amount.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Alaska Law requires \u201ca legal description sufficient for identification\u201d in order for the lien to be valid.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Be sure to include the&nbsp;legal property description that is listed in the county property records.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, if you do not have the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">mechanic\u2019s lien<\/a>&nbsp;notarized, the clerk will deem it&nbsp;to be invalid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you need to enforce the mechanic&#8217;s lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien is valid and will not void the lien. Almost every day, I am asked if the cost of filing a lien is allowed to be included in the amount due listed on the mechanic&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1673,1671,1678,1672,1085,1145],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#039;s Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Should you need to enforce the mechanic&#039;s lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic&#039;s Lien is valid and will not void\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#039;s Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Should you need to enforce the mechanic&#039;s lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic&#039;s Lien is valid and will not void\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LienItNow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/LienItNow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Stephen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lienitnow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lienitnow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Stephen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Stephen\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4ad09932756b36935fd15ab497722fe\"},\"headline\":\"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien?\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"AK construction lien\",\"AK mechanics lien\",\"alaska construction lien\",\"alaska mechanics lien\",\"construction lien\",\"mechanics lien\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\",\"name\":\"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic's Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"Should you need to enforce the mechanic's lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic's Lien is valid and will not void\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\",\"description\":\"Construction Lien News and Information from LienItNow.com\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cropped-logo-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cropped-logo-1.jpg\",\"width\":529,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LienItNow\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lienitnow\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lienitnow.com\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLbiOHgcanKx5TtfL6q_VUw\/videos\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4ad09932756b36935fd15ab497722fe\",\"name\":\"Stephen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db4dcbefbed204d35217154b64af2ea9?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db4dcbefbed204d35217154b64af2ea9?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Stephen\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\",\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/LienItNow\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lienitnow\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/author\/stephen\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic's Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","description":"Should you need to enforce the mechanic's lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic's Lien is valid and will not void","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic's Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","og_description":"Should you need to enforce the mechanic's lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic's Lien is valid and will not void","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html","og_site_name":"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LienItNow\/","article_author":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/LienItNow","article_published_time":"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00","author":"Stephen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lienitnow","twitter_site":"@lienitnow","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Stephen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html"},"author":{"name":"Stephen","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4ad09932756b36935fd15ab497722fe"},"headline":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien?","datePublished":"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html"},"wordCount":181,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization"},"articleSection":["AK construction lien","AK mechanics lien","alaska construction lien","alaska mechanics lien","construction lien","mechanics lien"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html","url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html","name":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic's Lien? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-06-13T12:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-13T18:06:48+00:00","description":"Should you need to enforce the mechanic's lien, you must be careful that the information included in the Alaska Mechanic's Lien is valid and will not void","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/what-information-must-be-included-in.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What information must be included In a Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/","name":"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","description":"Construction Lien News and Information from LienItNow.com","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog","url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cropped-logo-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cropped-logo-1.jpg","width":529,"height":100,"caption":"Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LienItNow\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/lienitnow","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lienitnow.com","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLbiOHgcanKx5TtfL6q_VUw\/videos"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d4ad09932756b36935fd15ab497722fe","name":"Stephen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db4dcbefbed204d35217154b64af2ea9?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db4dcbefbed204d35217154b64af2ea9?s=96&r=g","caption":"Stephen"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com","https:\/\/facebook.com\/LienItNow","https:\/\/twitter.com\/lienitnow"],"url":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/author\/stephen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}