Get Gephardt: Why Utah homeowners could lose a safety net against house liens

Utah homeowners could end up paying for expensive construction projects twice. Utah has a safety net that steps in when contractors don't pay their workers and the workers come after you. But as a Get Gephardt investigation found, that safety net is running out of money.

[FeralDawn]

It shouldn't be legal to hold the home owner liable for bills they already paid, regardless of whether or not there's a safety net.

[MikePoulson-qtme]

Criminals get more protection than law abiding citizens.

[shawnhuff]

So how can they hold the home owner 🤔 government is stupid to allow this ... contractors should be held accountable and sued as a person so the contractors home should be in trouble for a none payment agreement 👍

[thelostone]

Who was the CEO of All Courts? You know, the person making the decision and setting the corporate culture. It may be of an interest to others if the person running the company in this news program, and CEO of this now defunct company, decides to run another company?
Why didn’t KSL name them? It’s super easy to look up records of bu…

[DarenHarmon]

Is this being designed to put more pressure on homeowners to try and discourage homeownership? To push more people into an almost permanent renting status?

[brookerutherford]

Why would they keep giving materials to a company who hasn't paid them? Thats not the home owners problem. That's terrible business management.

[re]

Screw Geneva. It's their fault they didn't require funds from the contractor upfront to get paid for the use of their cement. This is absolutely ridiculous that it can go against a homeowner.

[americandream]

Its Geneva rocks fault they didn't require payment before starting the work.