NOTICE OF NONPAYMENT, READY TO EDIT.
A formal notice that a payment has come due and not been paid, addressed to the party who owes it and copied to the project owner.
This letter comes before a lien, and its own first line says it is not one. In our client work it's the step that collects most often. It puts the owner on notice that his contractor isn't paying, and that's a conversation the contractor didn't want. It's emailed as an attachment, and everything you need to change is highlighted. This one goes UP: to the general contractor, the architect or the owner.
Talk to your own attorney before you send this. Not a lawyer in general, a construction attorney licensed in your state, because notice windows, filing deadlines and the enforceability of several standard clauses all change at the state line. Your own contracts will also hold terms this document knows nothing about. It's a real legal document and a starting point, which means the wording that protects you is the one somebody has read against your contracts and your state. SPM isn't a law firm and nothing here is legal advice.
3 THINGS, IN ORDER.
Copy the owner. That's the whole mechanism, and it's why this works when three phone calls didn't.
State the amount, the invoice and the date it came due. Nothing else, and no argument.
Send it by email and keep the sent copy. The date you sent it's the fact that decides it later.
No charge. The only thing asked for is an email address, and the file goes straight to it.Every field you need to change is highlighted in the document itself.
EVERY CONTROL TEMPLATE, ONE QR CODE.
Collecting these one email at a time works. A QR code printed in the book, with a password behind it, opening every CONTROL template as a download at runoncfos.com/cfos-toolkit. The paperback is $24.99 on Amazon.
BEFORE YOU USE IT.
