You Did the Work.Here's How to Keep the Right to Get Paid in Oregon.
Oregon law is uniquely brutal. You have exactly 8 business days from first furnishing labor or materials to protect your paycheck.
•THE RULE: You must serve a Notice of Right to a Lien within 8 business days of commencing work.
—THE RISK: File late, and you permanently forfeit your lien rights for any work performed more than 8 business days prior to the mailing date.
Real Contractor. Real Loss. Real Fix.
Lisa P.
Concrete Subcontractor · Portland, OR
"8 business days sounds like a lot until a holiday weekend burns 3 of them. I lost $5,900 learning that. LienFlash does the math so I don't have to."
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Why DIY Filing Fails
Three mistakes that void your notice
Business vs. Calendar Days
Oregon strictly uses business days. Weekends and state holidays do not count toward your 8-day limit, but they do delay the mail.
The 8-Day Lookback
A late notice is better than nothing, but it only protects the work you performed in the 8 business days immediately preceding the mailing.
Strict Certified Mail Rules
Oregon law strictly requires your notice to be sent via USPS Certified or Registered Mail with a return receipt requested.
The $280 billion mistake
This is not a small problem.
A plumbing contractor did a $40,000 job. Quality work. On time. The GC went quiet after the final invoice. By the time a lawyer looked at it, the contractor had missed his preliminary notice deadline by two weeks. No lien rights. No leverage. No recourse.
He did not lose that money because he did bad work. He lost it because nobody told him the clock was running from day one.
Most contractors think a lien is what you use when a GC doesn't pay you. So they wait — for the invoice to go past due, for the ignored voicemail, until they're angry enough to do something.
But lien law doesn't work that way. The window to protect your rights opens the moment you step on site — and it closes on a hard deadline, whether you know it or not.
The contractors who never fight to get paid don't have better lawyers. They file a piece of paper before the job even starts.
"Storm season means we're running 10 jobs a week. I missed one notice on a tear-off and lost $8,500. LienFlash is my insurance policy. $24.99 is nothing compared to losing a paycheck."
The two-minute fix
LienFlash files before you leave the job site.
Enter your job details
Property address, owner name, job amount, first day on site. We calculate your exact deadline automatically based on your state's law.
Takes 2 minutesReview your state-compliant notice
We generate the correct legal form for your state — including any verbatim statutory warning language required by law. Review it once and approve.
Takes 5 secondsWe print, mail, and track it
We send your notice via USPS Certified Mail and save your tracking number and Certificate of Mailing to your dashboard. You never stand in a post office line.
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Every template is attorney-reviewed for your state. We're not lawyers — we just make the paperwork disappear so you get paid.
You've been lucky so far.
Every job without a notice is a bet.
Eventually the bet loses.
A GC who knows you filed a notice on day one pays differently than a GC who knows you didn't. Not because of the law. Because of what the notice signals: this contractor knows their rights. That signal, sent before the first invoice, changes how fast you get paid. The contractors who never fight to get paid don't have better lawyers. They file a piece of paper before the job starts.
Miss the notice. Lose the money.
File before you leave the job site.
Takes 2 minutes. Costs $24.99. File before the deadline does the damage.
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