[WSBARP] Priority of mechanics lien recorded post conveyance

[Craig Blackmon]

'Mates, your input is appreciated following my ineffective legal research
(which was then curtailed by error messages on CaseMaker).

*Facts*: Owner contracts with GC to build house; Owner pays GC in full
without sufficient lien release assurances; Owner sells house, title is
conveyed to Buyer by recorded warranty deed; Subcontractor thereafter
records an otherwise valid mechanic's lien.

I assumed the lien was invalid on its face since it is subsequent to
conveyance. How can Subcontractor foreclose Buyer's superior-in-time
interest? I know a mechanics lien can defeat an existing but unrecorded
DOT. But superior to a prior recorded conveyance?

Is it as simple as I think? Is this lien invalid on its face? Or am I
missing something?

Thanks in advance!!

Craig


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