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By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

If you are a longtime reader thanks! You may know, but others new to this resource may not, that all our column history is online at cutredtape.com. However, we still get new questions, new situations, new interpretations and new rules from the Legislature to add when we’re done here. It’s always good to know your ‘options’ so looking online is a first step and calling an expert is a good second step…

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

Speaking ‘fluent’ regulations is one part of it and keeping an ear to the ground is another when you are providing expert ‘guidance’ to contractors. Listening closely to what is said is always important… 

I hear that CSLB would like to make contractor’s aware of several things. 

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

We help a Vice President ‘waive’ goodbye to the former owner and ‘qualify’ to grab a higher rung in his rise to better things! However, it’s a yes and no answer, like our second question from a contractor ‘moving’ on to a new state. The fingerprint requirement is just the first hurdle a ‘foreign’ contractor must complete, as our expert answer points out another they didn’t anticipate in becoming licensed in CA…

by John McGill

Sometimes the help we get causes more problems than it solves. Doctors have the right idea; they have the directive to “do no harm”.  Not so much in the law though.  In the legal system the effort is to reach the correct decision within the constraints of what the statutes provide.  For the most part it works, but sometimes it works a little too well- and then we have problems.