If you or your business is the owner of a fictitious name, otherwise known as a DBA, it is time to double check when you registered the DBA with the Secretary of State. You can do this by clicking here. Please note that your fictitious name is only valid for five years and will need

Licenses, Etc. is proud to announce that we have recently helped a qualified business obtain their Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise certification. Many of you may be wondering what the WMBE certification is and what the benefits are. In essence, the WMBE certification has been designed to help improve business opportunities that are available for

Since 2007, Licenses, Etc. has specialized in helping thousands of contractors get licensed in the State of Florida.  Although we do recognize Florida license applications to be our wheel house, we are happy to announce that we have extended our licensing expertise into many different states! To date, we have experience in submitting contractor license

Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in October: Bonnie Jean Reddick at Florida Pool Shells Express, LLC in Naples, FL Michael Cain at Big Johnson Construction, LLC in Fort Morgan, CO Rodney Locke at Cross Contractors Inc. in Margate, FL Kenneth Dorian at Coastal Construction of SWF, Inc. DBA Gulf Coast Stucco &

Worker’s Comp can be a tricky subject. One item to understand well is that the state is taking the time to match affiliated companies and this could cause you to lose your exemption. See below for a breakdown of the main rules for affiliation that could affect you if you or one of your partners

As we have been discussing in previous blogs, many of the Florida state exams have gone to computerized instead of pencil and paper exams. Many more have also been changed, leaving only a few as exams that cannot be scheduled at any time. Also, there were some changes with the Air Conditioning exams. Read on

Every day we get the question, “To qualify this business, how much do I need to own?” While it is true that to be eligible for a Worker’s Compensation Exemption the individual must be an owner with at least 10% ownership, it is not true that to qualify a business you must have ownership. To

Congratulations to the following Licenses, Etc. clients who were approved in August: Adam Robbins at SFPR, Inc. DBA Pavers Plus Pool in Plantation, FL Thomas Sprague at Tropical Builders and Home Inspectors, Inc. in Cape Coral, FL Samuel Everett at Superior Industrial Contractors, LLC in Rockingham, NC James Ryan at Artisan Building & Development, Inc. DBA Aquatic

Molly Blosser is the newest team member here at Licenses, Etc. While we are celebrating “Blogust”, we thought it would be appropriate to introduce her! Molly was born and raised in the Southwest Florida area. She has spent the past four years earning her Bachelor’s degree at Florida Gulf Coast University in Business Management with

As we all know by now, annual reports were due by May 1st. Any company that has not filed this yet with the Division of Corporations at the Secretary of State is currently late and a late fee will be imposed. But there are worse things to come – revocations and dissolutions. Annual reports are