Nevada liens after recording: the steps that still have deadlines

Getting a Nevada lien recorded inside 90 days feels like the finish line. It isn't. A few of the steps around recording have their own dates, and two of them happen after the lien is already on file.

Before recording, on residential jobs. You serve a notice of intent to lien on the owner and the reputed prime contractor, by hand or certified mail, at least 15 days before you record. Skip it and a materials lien can't be perfected. Serving it also pushes the recording deadline out by 15 days (NRS 108.226(6)-(7)).

Within 30 days after recording. A copy of the recorded lien goes to the owner by personal delivery or certified mail, return receipt requested. If you can't find an address, post it on the property and mail it (NRS 108.227).

Within 6 months of recording. That's when the foreclosure suit has to be filed. When you file, you record a lis pendens and publish notice of the foreclosure for 3 weeks. The only thing that stretches the 6 months is a written extension agreement recorded inside them, and even that tops out at 1 year from recording (NRS 108.233, 108.239).

None of this replaces the Notice of Right to Lien up front, which suppliers who don't sell directly to the owner still need (NRS 108.245).

The whole sequence, start to finish, is in our Nevada supplier notice and recording deadlines guide.