{"id":981,"date":"2012-06-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/does-alaska-require-pre-lien-notices\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:06:49","slug":"does-alaska-require-pre-lien-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/does-alaska-require-pre-lien-notices.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Alaska require pre-lien notices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">WHAT<\/span>:<\/strong>&nbsp; <span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary Notice<\/a> or a Notice of Right to Lien is not required to file a valid Claim of Lien in Alaska.  However, it may be filed and served on the property owner&nbsp;PRIOR to providing labor or materials to the project.&nbsp; Not only can a preliminary notice make the&nbsp;enforcement of the lien easier, it&nbsp;can extend the time the lien claimant has to file the lien.&nbsp; Alaska law also allows for the recording of the&nbsp;preliminary notice&nbsp;rather than just serving the notice to the owner.  When the preliminary notice (Notice of Right to Lien) is recorded, this assures the lien claimant&nbsp;the full 120 days to record his lien even if the owner records a Notice of Completion.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><strong>WHEN:&nbsp; <\/strong>A lien claimant may give Notice of Right to Lien (preliminary notice) to the owner or owner\u2019s agent before furnishing labor or material to the project.  This notice works to transfer the burden of proof to the owner in a foreclosure action, and entitles the person giving notice to advance notice of the owner\u2019s filing of a Notice of Completion.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A Notice of Right to Lien may&nbsp;be filed&nbsp;up to 15 days after the owner records a Notice of Completion, and will work to assure the lien claimant the full 120 days to file his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/alaska-faq.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Mechanic&#8217;s Lien<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>WHO:<\/strong>&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/prelien-notice-faq.asp\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary notice<\/a> must be&nbsp;served to the owner or owner\u2019s agent by certified mail return receipt requested or by personal delivery with the recipient\u2019s signature acknowledging receipt of the document.&nbsp; Although the preliminary notice it not required to be sent to the lender (if any), the lender is responsible to inform you&nbsp;if certain information&nbsp;is wrong.&nbsp; The preliminary notice is considered delivered when received, not when postmarked.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zlien.com\/notices\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT:&nbsp; A Preliminary Notice or a Notice of Right to Lien is not required to file a valid Claim of Lien in Alaska. However, it may be filed and served on the property owner&nbsp;PRIOR to providing labor or materials to the project.&nbsp; Not only can a preliminary notice make the&nbsp;enforcement of the lien easier, it&nbsp;can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Alaska require pre-lien notices? - Tools of the Trade | LienItNow Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WHAT:&nbsp; A Preliminary Notice or a Notice of Right to Lien is not required to file a valid Claim of Lien in Alaska. 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