California's 20-Day Preliminary Notice is the single most important deadline in California construction lien law. Miss it and you lose lien rights for everything you furnished more than 20 days before you finally send it. The notice has to go to the owner, the direct contractor, and the construction lender. Every subcontractor, material supplier, and equipment lessor who furnishes labor, materials, or equipment to a private California construction project must serve the Preliminary Notice. Direct contractors (those in a contract directly with the owner) generally do not. Within 20 days of first furnishing labor, services, equipment, or materials to the project. Late notices only protect work done in the 20 days before service.
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