The Capitol Connection is our weekly Q & A column for contractors that focuses on topics pertaining to contractor's licensing.
Mick Jagger couldn’t get it. However, our first contractor will find ‘satisfaction’ in my answer while our second contractor not so much. While I help find a way, another contractor gets advice just in time to save his ‘venture’… Q: My company has a “C-22” (Asbestos Abatement) Contractor’s License in California and we are going to…
As noted in October, we’ve offered assistance to contractors with questions for more than a thousand weeks here! Once in a while it’s good to remember history, so contractors don’t repeat those same mistakes over again… Looking for Loopholes 1/20/14 Q: For many years I have been doing unlicensed construction, most of the work under $500. …
While you can read all about contractor’s license rules on the internet, you can’t download expertise! That’s why we’re here to assist contractors in sorting it all out. Getting started I confirm the ‘idea’ suggested by our first inquiry. Next, when a family finds itself dealing with the loss of a loved one, especially a licensed…
A contractor wants to ‘add’ a concrete change to his business plan. But the numbers won’t compute! To ‘dba’ or not ‘dba’, that is the question. Another important lesson for any contractors who decide to ‘surrender’ the corporation without discovering ‘loose ends’ after walking away… Q: I currently have a Sole Proprietor General Building (“B”) license…
Yet another reason to keep that credit score up! An Oregon contractor has a ‘5 year’ plan to build on in CA, while another out-of-state contractor has an ‘issue’ with taking the ‘first step’ in applying for his license. Q: I need to obtain a Contractor’s License and I know that I am required to be…
For us this is an historic day! What began as a first step to assist contractors with our first column in April 1996 has become 1000 columns down the road and twenty years later! Nearly every week of each year, Capitol Services, Inc. founder and original author David Kalb answered questions from individual contractors who ran…
What’s in a name? We hold ‘class’ for this ‘general’ answer on contractor regulation. Another Lone Star contractor hopes to ‘address’ a question on long-distance ‘supervision’. We find it unfortunate to inform a daughter that despite the loss her worthy ambition is not experience in applying for a license number… Q: Our business name has the…
An ‘unlimited’ answer in assisting our first contractor has one limitation! The second answer takes a different ‘form’ as a Qualifier replaces himself. While we take ‘time’ for one more RMO, we are also always happy to help a contractor’s family work through the regulations… Q: We have a corporation that is licensed with an RMO…
While it’s not written in stone a contractor’s business is ‘history’ as we discover! I will put on my ‘thinking cap’ to just say ‘no’ to a question, and we also offer sympathy and assistance to a contractor’s family in their time of loss… Q: I had a homeowner contact me wanting me to repair some…