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How can a Subcontractor Become a Secured Creditor?

The following pages will help you to become a secured creditor in the case of a builder liquidation, in some cases, this will put you inline above other secured creditors.

There are many companies out there who will rewrite your terms and conditions to ensure when you register your goods or services, it is done correctly.

The Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) allows us to register our security interests over personal property.

It gives us rights if a builder or another party does not pay as per the contract or liquidates his business.

It gives us a level of protection from losses if a head contractor defaults.

Machinery is subject to PPSR and machinery should be registered - This is because up until PPSR there was no way of registering ownership of an item of machinery as you would a car. There were many cases of disputes over ownership of machinery. 

Problems with PPSR

I have advice that there is a debt collector out there who is attempting to market a contract that purports to make you a secured creditor. They are ripping off subcontractors for an awful lot of money. The main problem with these arrangements is that even if the subcontractor can get the other parties to agree (the head contractor), the interest is instantly destroyed by other securities that were created first in time for example, the bank's security.

Floating Charge

Effectively you are registering a floating charge over the builders personal property. It includes bank accounts, vehicles, stock, everything they own except land and buildings.

You need to attach a copy of your terms of trade, there are experts who will charge a fee to write your terms to make them PPSR compliant so click here to see advertisement on home page.

The clause in your contract negates the need to ask them to agree to .

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ABOUT US

SubbiesUnited is not “anti builder”, we support strong builders.
We are “anti theft” of hard working subbies money.

It’s not just about the builders who go broke, businesses all over Australia Liquidate every day for a variety of reasons.

It’s about the ones that engage in calculated criminal behaviour such as providing false information to the regulators or inducing subbies to work on a site when they know they cannot or are not going to pay them because of a fraudulent scheme. Its about the participation of the banks, pre insolvency advisors and builder appointed Liquidators to fraudulently defeat creditors.

Liquidators should always be appointed by creditors to ensure a thorough investigation takes place.

We want the rogues investigated and prosecuted for fraud. 


  • SubbiesUnited was created to provide subbies with collaborative information on building companies that are showing signs of insolvency or struggling to pay their creditors. The signs are always there, we just need to get the message to each other before it happens.
  • We provide subbies with up to date news on builders in Administration or Liquidation and the best strategies to get a return.
  • There are some extremely litigious builders out there who would rather sue you than pay you. Often they sue you so they don’t have to pay you. We will expose them.
  • The construction industry is renowned for building companies setting up illegal Phoenix operations, shifting assets, then liquidating sending subbies broke. We work with other subcontractor & supplier organisations & Governments to stop what amounts to legalised theft on a massive scale though pre packaged liquidations. Insolvency is used as a means to defraud Subbies.
  • Our aim is to limit the financial damage before it happens with our “members only forum”, an early warning system for the benefit of all our members.

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