Sometimes the ‘waiting’ is the hardest part for a contractor. After that lengthy question, a ‘quick’ one! A happy answer for a ‘suspenseful’ issue and another contractor comes up short in ‘owning’ my answer… Q: You helped us back in 2016…
While a “C-17” can help us take ‘stock’ of a company sale, it’s a qualified answer I give him. An attorney, who is losing sleep about a family matter, gets a ‘knock-out’ response and doesn’t miss a ‘step’… Q: I am…
Let’s take a look around the ‘landscape’ and see what’s cooking! I will ‘for sure’ know the answer to a complicated question which is good news for this two-state contractor. Unfortunately, another gets a little bad news on the purchase…
Sometimes there’s only one way around a ‘hazard’ in contracting. Another contractor gets an answer but still needs to, old-school expression, ‘drop the dime’ and talk with me. I discover I can’t answer the last actual question but can point…
Something old and something new! In the many years I have assisted contractors here I still get questions we have not answered in this space. Check out our other resource at cutredtape.com to see past Q I ‘man’ up on…
I have helped contractors in almost every state, but most often work with CA, AZ and NV. So, we begin and end this time with Silver State inquiries. In between, I also sandwich in two ‘slices’ from our Golden one!……
What’s old isn’t always re-‘new’-able but there is a solution! A patient father asks for an assist with a very determined, but so far unsuccessful, license applicant. There is one place a competitive complaint from a licensed contractor will get some…
I have covered the great job CSLB is doing with the restrictions inherent with Covid-19 guidelines. There are however some issues and the first contractor has discovered one of these problems. While your fingerprints are yours alone a ‘copy’ isn’t…
Let me introduce you to the new ‘Norm’ in NV and AZ. Meanwhile, in CA a reminder on changes to ‘qualifying’ for the old ‘Norm’. As we all learn to adjust in these challenging times it’s good to have an…
Like gum stuck under the café table, experience is best served when it’s all on the up and up. Being paid for work off the books might have you ‘stuck.’ Another contractor with foreign corporation changes will need to ‘advertise’…