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I'm dealing with a frustrating situation where our Virginia Secretary of State UCC search results don't match what we actually filed. We submitted a UCC-1 for equipment financing on a construction company back in September, but when I run the debtor name search on the SCC portal, either nothing comes up or I get completely different filings. The debtor name on our original filing was 'Mountain Ridge Construction LLC' but I've tried variations like 'Mountain Ridge Construction, LLC' and 'Mountain Ridge Const LLC' with no luck. Has anyone else had issues with Virginia's UCC search function not returning accurate results? I'm worried we might have a name mismatch that could affect our security interest. The filing number is 250923-0045782 if that helps, but even searching by that number sometimes gives weird results. This is for a $340,000 equipment loan and I need to verify our lien position is solid before we proceed with additional financing.

My client paid off their equipment loan in full last month but the lender hasn't filed a termination statement yet. I'm reading UCC 9-512 about information statements and wondering if this applies to our situation. The original UCC-1 was filed 3 years ago for manufacturing equipment worth about $180K. The loan was paid off February 15th and we have the payoff letter but nothing has been filed to clear the lien. Can we use UCC 9-512 to force the issue or do we need to wait for the lender to file the UCC-3 termination? The equipment is being used as collateral for a new loan with a different bank and they need the lien cleared. Any advice on the UCC 9-512 process would be appreciated.

Really need some guidance here. We're 8 months into what should have been a straightforward UCC foreclosure process on equipment collateral (construction machinery worth about $340K). The debtor defaulted back in March, we sent all proper notices, but now everything's grinding to a halt because opposing counsel is claiming our UCC-1 continuation from 2019 was defective. They're saying the debtor name doesn't exactly match what's on the original 2014 filing - something about 'LLC' vs 'L.L.C.' punctuation. Our attorney says this is just delay tactics but I'm getting nervous. Has anyone dealt with debtor name challenges derailing a UCC foreclosure process? The equipment is sitting there depreciating while we argue over periods and commas. This can't be normal.

Having major headaches with fillable UCC-1 forms downloaded from our state SOS website. The PDF fields seem to work fine for most sections, but when I try to enter the debtor organization name in the fillable field, it either cuts off after 35 characters or completely scrambles the text when I save it. I've tried both Adobe Reader and Acrobat Pro - same issue. This is for a commercial equipment loan where the debtor name is 'Advanced Manufacturing Solutions and Industrial Supply Corp LLC' which obviously exceeds typical field limits. Anyone else running into problems with fillable UCC forms where the debtor name gets truncated or corrupted? I'm worried about filing a UCC-1 with an incomplete debtor name since that could void the entire perfection. The loan closes next week and I can't afford any filing rejections due to name issues.

Been trying to run a proper ny state ucc search on some collateral we financed last year and the results are completely inconsistent. When I search by debtor name I get different results than when I search by filing number, and some continuations aren't showing up at all even though we filed them months ago. Has anyone else had issues with the NY UCC database showing outdated or incomplete information? I'm worried we might have liens that aren't properly perfected because the search results don't match our internal records. The original UCC-1 shows as active but two of our UCC-3 amendments from this year aren't appearing in the search results. This is for a $2.8M equipment financing deal so getting this sorted is pretty critical.