By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

First, an issue facing the roofing industry in California has a contractor ‘fired up’ then another needs help deciding what name to use for his new business…

Q:  I read your column in the weekly NCBE newsletter.

I sent an email to all CSLB staffers and have gotten no response.  Can you help with this matter? 

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.