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By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

There was a time when LLC’s couldn’t be licensed in California. That changed in 2012, but many contracting rules and regulations put on paper for decades have stood the test of time unchanged. With  a nod to the CSLB’s recent look at the roots of contracting law in California, we revisit some contractor Q&A from previous years that show what goes then still goes now. This from 2002 gets us started on this ‘blast from the past’…

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

Water damage sucks, but is a contractor’s license required to just vacuum it up?

Our friends ‘in high places’ will appreciate another question and the answer that is ‘on the house’ as we also clarify rules on Nevada licensing in this edition…

What Happens When You Change Your Entity Status

by John McGill

In the last article, we discussed E.J. Franks Construction Inc. v Bhupinder Sahota and how the change from a sole proprietorship to a corporation affected the theories of recovery available to a contractor, but not the right to recovery by the contractor.  

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

LLC’s, SSN’s and INS, oh my! We put a ‘finger’ on some issues with Nevada licensing to get us started on our contractor Q&A. Another contractor needs to avoid digging himself into a hole he can’t get out of, while we have a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ for two others…

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

Like everything else, illegal contractors have become ‘hi-tech’ in their pursuit of unlicensed work. Consumers looking for deals online may find sorting the ‘good’ guys from among the unlicensed criminals will take more than a quick ‘search.’ While consumers may get a low price, the people they bring into their homes may not be worth the cost…

SACRAMENTO — The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) is reminding licensees about a new requirement for bidding on public works projects that takes effect July 1, 2014.

AB 44 (Buchanan, Chapter 258, Statutes of 2013) requires a contractor to include the contractor license number of each subcontractor listed in any bid or offer for the construction of any public work.