The Capitol Connection is our weekly Q & A column for contractors that focuses on topics pertaining to contractor's licensing.
Some discoveries are not treasure! While paperwork is the foundation of the contracting business, sometimes discovery is progress as a new online opportunity is now available. However, an expert is still best bet in doing it right quickly… Q: We just discovered that our Company’s RME let his Inactive license expire in March of 2019. Can you assist…
I will ‘test’ the shock value of adding low voltage curtains! Another contractor helps us learn it’s easier to get into business than it may be to get out and answer to questions about changes, delays and restrictions under Covid-19 rules… Q: Our company currently has a “C-7” (Low Voltage) Contractor’s License in California. I am a Window…
What’s on everyone’s mind right now? The CSLB’s latest update regarding the COVID-19 virus! The Board release says, “the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) remains committed to supporting our licensees, license applicants, and consumers. We’re working hard to remain accessible while continuing to provide our essential services. Thank you for your patience as we reinvent our workplace… All…
What a difference a week can make. In this case difficulties we all share in overcoming the spread of the Covid-19, or Corona virus. Please be aware that amid the latest health concerns, Capitol Services will remain open and will be here to answer questions, emails, etc. That being said, many State agencies are taking precautions…
A contractor needs to be sure. Our first question is all about unsure! I will also answer ‘HIS’ questions, suggest another expert might also weigh-in and wrap with a positive note on an ‘expiration’ date… Q: I was reading the Nevada’s Contractor licensing website and I see that they reciprocate with California. Does the license holder have…
License law may be printed black and white in the rule books, but it lives and evolves with every day and that’s why it is a never-ending learning curve for contractors. It’s what makes my years of daily practice working with them an expert opinion you can count on when you need it as contractors have…
Hope is eternal but an expert may also be helpful! Why remodeling is not ‘new’ construction and making something, almost anything, happen in the same day is not likely when several government agencies are involved… Q: I was hoping you can tell me what type of Contractor’s License I would need in California to perform the work…
There is no ‘blanket’ answer to cover all the rules as some contractors are ‘exceptional’ as we learn from our first inquiry. I will also dig deep into a question on ‘splitting off’ a special class in ‘general’ terms and I have a happy surprise for a stressed-out question involving a list of license classes that…
There’s no changing the name, even to protect the innocent, when it comes to contractor’s advertising. Another license applicant learns ‘that was then, and this is now’ in seeking a place for the license exam, and a question from the frozen north gets a ‘chilly’ response… Q: We have hundreds of work trucks throughout California and the…