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2020 just won’t go away. It’s one step forward, another step back for all!  As many have heard, due to COVID-19, all individuals living in the State of California are currently ordered to stay home or at their place of…

Sometimes we all need a ‘strong’ friend as a NV applicant learns. Another former contractor must ‘experience’ the suspense every angler has when throwing a line into the water with his application, while a “C-29”on the ‘fence’ discovers he better…

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…