Goodness gracious. Is this REALLY on the list of crimes that we should be attacking? I don't know and that is a genuine question.
Actually in Florida this is probably a major issue. With so many older retired people who can't do things for themselves I'm sure there are many unlicensed "professionals" whose ripoff people regularly for minor work that requires licensure.Goodness gracious. Is this REALLY on the list of crimes that we should be attacking? I don't know and that is a genuine question.
Oh come-on.....Is this nanny-state now protecting the "unsuspecting consumer" from derelict painters and tilers....while CARLSON points out there is significant/material crime left un-pursued.As though a licensed contractor will not rip off homeowners - really?
These are an easy way for the local LEO's to boost their numbers without having to actually do any police work.
The entire state of Florida is the fraud capital of the world, considerabley outdoing even Nigeria. This is well known and so the state attracts criminals as they know that the odds of their being brought to trial by a local prosecuter are zero. But it is easier to go after a handyman who is helping the elderly with affordable repairs than to go after the banksters and real estate swindlers and identity theft perpetrators.
We truly have two very different sets of laws in this country. A handyman shows up to install a smoke detector and they get arrested while the likes of Wells Fargo can steal 2 million homes with illegal robo foreclosures and put people out on the streets and none of their people go to jail.
The CSLB regularly conducts sting operations, not just in disaster areas.
Here are the 2019 press releases. Most of them concern stings. You just don’t generally see them unless one is near you.
https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Media_Room/Press_Releases/2019/
Public feedback is probably our very best regulatory mechanism.I have an ideological problem with the entire concept of "government licensing." A person shouldn't need permission from politicians and bureaucrats and pay often large fees to get a license to earn a living.
A license doesn't prove much of anything concerning the abilities of the contractor.
A much better way to "control" contractors and handymen is through private certification and public feedback from verified customers through Home Adviser, Angie's List etc.
In my area unlicensed contractors are pretty much free to work as they please, so long as they don't misrepresent themselves as licensed.
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They accomplish virtually nothing for the consumer....except increased costs to the consumer (forcing more unpermitted HO work)..... but they do pad the gov revenues and shore up their retirement programs..Ya'll aren't seeing the real picture.
Licensing offenses make fines that go to the city coffers.
They accomplish virtually nothing for the consumer....except increased costs to the consumer (forcing more unpermitted HO work)..... but they do pad the gov revenues and shore up city gov retirement programs..Ya'll aren't seeing the real picture.
Licensing offenses make fines that go to the city coffers.
Of course, its way easier to sell "gov needs tax businesses to give you stuffz" then it is to "hey voter, /you/ need to give me more money for that stuffz" The reality is that "hey voter" is indeed giving them more money for that stuffz, there's just a few more middlemen in the way. I call it "vote laundering" hehThey accomplish virtually nothing for the consumer....except increased costs to the consumer (forcing more unpermitted HO work)..... but they do pad the gov revenues and shore up their retirement programs..