Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in April: Paulette Brown at Brown & Brown Residential Builders, Inc. of Punta Gorda, FL Arnulf Albrecht at Arnulf Albrecht General Contracting, Inc. of Naples, FL Robert Ricciardelli at Pelican Bay Contracting, Inc. of Naples, FL John David Lowe at Physical Security, LLC  of  Bessemer, AL David Williams at Eikon Builders LLC  of  Fort Myers,

As everyone knows, the biggest part of an application for a new construction license is the experience section. What experience are they looking for? How much do they need? What do they consider valid experience? For Division II Contractors, the basics are simple. In the minimum four years of experience that the board requires for

In Florida, to work as a State Certified Contractor the Department of Business & Professional Regulation’s Construction Industry Licensing Board requires all applicants need to provide credit reports personally and on the business entity they want to qualify. Both credit reports must indicate that local, state, and federal records have been searched and personal credit

Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in March: Anthony Onesti at US Electrical Construction Co, Inc. DBA US Construction Group of Woodstown, NJ Armando Quintero at Intellisite, Inc. of St. Pete Beach, FL Maynard Grover at Elektro Systems, LLC of Ocala, FL Clifford Byrd at Specialty Building Services, Inc. of Naples, FL Trevor Kutz at Progressive Power Group,

If you recently set up a new business on the Department of State, Division of Corporations website (sunbiz.org), you may be sent a 2013 Certificate of Status Request Form. Please be aware that this is NOT required to complete any registration process with the state. These notices are NOT from the Dept. of State, Division

Just a quick reminder from Hill, Barth and King, LLC that the deadline for corporate income tax returns (Forms 1120, 1120A, and 1120S) or to request an automatic six-month extension (Form 7004) is March 15, 2013. What does all this mean? Put simply, if your business is a corporation –whether a regular C corporation or

Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in February: Adam Johnson at Air Jam Cooling & Heating, LLC at Port of St Lucie, FL Thomas DiTommaso at BBT Construction, Inc. of North Miami Beach, FL Arnulf Albrecht at Arnulf Albrecht General Contracting, Inc. DBA Pelican Bay Remodeling of Naples, FL David Arent  at Build, LLC of Naples, FL James D. Martin at HLM Environmental

With all this talk about grandfathering of registered licenses, we have gotten calls from many registered license holders. One of the state’s stipulations to this application is that the applicant must have a valid county competency card. Unfortunately some of the individuals that we have spoken to have let their county license lapse thinking that

About half of the contractors we meet through our firm don’t have a website.  Most of these contractors are small one-man operations who don’t understand why a website is necessary.  If you’re in the same boat, we would like to share what a website can do for you:   A website will act as an

Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in January: Andrew Waters at QJ, Inc. DBA Ace Air Conditioning of Lantana, FL Stephen Brillati at Brillati Carpentry, LLC of Macomb, MI John C. Gratton at Keys Contracting Services, Inc. of Marathon, FL Chester Forbes at Forbes Can Fix It, L.L.C. of Melbourne, FL