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.
It's not a lien, and it says so in its own first line. It's the letter that comes before one, and in our client work it's the step that collects most often, because 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.
Read this before you send it. This is a real legal document rather than an example, and it's a starting point rather than a finished one. Notice windows, filing deadlines and the enforceability of several standard clauses vary by state, and your own contracts will have terms this doesn't know about. Have your attorney review it before you use it. 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. It goes to a real address rather than sitting on a link, which is the only thing asked for. 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. The ebook is $3.99 on preorder until 5 October 2026 and $9.99 after that, and the paperback is $24.99 from 1 October.
BEFORE YOU USE IT.
