GET PAID OR RECEIVE YOUR TITLE IN 60 DAYS
Auto Mechanic LIen
Auto Mechanic LIen
Auto Mechanic LIen
SUNSHINE STATE LIEN SERVICES Can help mechanics and motor vehicle repair shops save time and money when you need documents quickly prepared to claim your lien and process your title documents in Florida. Using your completed shop work order or tow ticket, we promptly prepare all documents needed to claim your lien so that you can promptly collect payment or obtain clear title for the vehicle you have serviced or stored at your business.
Florida mechanics and body shops provide valuable repair services for vehicle owners every day. Unfortunately, at times customers may authorize these repairs; yet fail to pay for repairs when payment is due, or even decide to leave their vehicle in the care of the mechanic until they can produce payment.
What We Will Need
Auto Mechanic LIen
Auto Mechanic LIen
- Copy of the work order.
- Copy of your Repair Shop Certificate (MV License) and EIN number.
- Date repairs were completed & date customer was contacted.
- Payment. Cost varies by case. Call for a quote today.
Cost Includes: Contact- customer, owner, lienholder and newspaper AD in your county, new title and title transfer).
Things You Should Know
Important Facts
- Storage Charges – This places the burden of storage and safekeeping of the vehicle on the mechanic until payment can be made. Of course, mechanics are in the business of repairing vehicles and not storage, so the amount of space allocated to storing vehicles for customers can be quite limited and therefore storage charges should be incurred at a reasonable rate.
- Get Paid or Get Title – Florida’s mechanic and motor vehicle repair shop lien process helps assure the auto repair business and the mechanic operating the business will receive compensation for their labor and services. The statute provides security for the mechanic, and also relieves the customers of the need to pay a deposit in advance of any labor or services performed. This title procedure ensures mechanics can recover payment from non-paying customers through an expedited and enforceable legal procedure.
- Statutory Lien Notice – The Florida mechanic or repair shop is entitled to charge the customer daily storage fees once the vehicle owner is properly notified by giving notice within 7 business days from the first date from which storage charges have accrued. When attempts to notify the customer and collect payment have proven to be unsuccessful, or in the event a vehicle is left unclaimed for too long and abandoned by the customer, the mechanic and auto repair business may enforce a statutory lien. The vehicle may then be sold at a public auction to recover any outstanding debts in order to satisfy the lien and recoup any losses attributable to a delinquent customer’s vehicle.
- The Mechanic’s lien must be filed within 7 days after repairs are completed to accrue “storage”. If filed afterwards, the maximum is 7 days.
- The lienholder has the right to inspect the repairs within 3 days after receiving notice.
- Car cannot be sold or transferred until 60 days after work has been completed.
- When you file a lien there is 30 days until the sale and transfer of title and only 7 days of storage will be applied.
Auto Mechanic's Lien Services Include
- Florida or Out of State Vehicles/Vessels Auto Mechanics Lien Filings
- Title search to find and verify owners and lien-holders of vehicle
- Certified mailing of required notices to all parties on file with the DMV Records.
- Communication with Customers & Lien Holders regarding balance owed.
- Publishing of the required legal ads in the Newspaper
- Recording your Auto Mechanic Lien with Clerk of Court
- Forms, support and communications with DMV for a successful transfer of title into your company’s name if not paid by deadline.