Contractor Licensing FAQs

The Capitol Connection is our weekly Q & A column for contractors that focuses on topics pertaining to contractor's licensing.

Advertising Collateral, NV Qualifying Sole Owner License and Landscaping Installations

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 of a contracting business with lots of ‘collateral’ loss… Q:  Can a ‘C-27’ (Landscaping) Contractor install an…

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Revoked License, Address Updates, Coatings Classes and Multiple Applications

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 a question that requires many ‘coats’ to cover, while it’s ‘good news/bad news’ on a contractor’s…

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“A” & “B” Info, Judgements and Fingerprint Rules In CA

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 enough for a contractor’s license, followed by an out-of-state question with a somewhat ‘specialized’ answer… Q:  I…

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