The next time you consider hiring an unlicensed contractor or company ask them one simple question, "Why do you not have a license?"
If you receive any of the responses below, you may want to reconsider your decision to hire them, especially if they say #14 before they say anything else.
1. I don't make enough to pay the licensing fees.
2. I don't plan on being around here that long.
3. I had one once but can't get one any more.
4. I don't want to be liable for any mistakes me or my workers make.
5. I don't want anyone to be able to find me.
6. I might have to change the name of my company in the next couple of months and it is a big hassle to change the license information.
7. I find I can charge the same price as a licensed contractors but I make more profit because I don't have to pay licensing and insurance fees.
8. If I was licensed, I would have to declare income to the IRS, and that would cut into my profits.
9. If I was licensed, I would have to hire legal workers and pay them a fair wage and I can't afford that.
10. Immigration and neutralization services might get involved.
11. I would have to pay an insurance bond to guarantee my work and that is just too expensive.
12. I do not need anyone looking over my shoulder, I have been doing this work for 20 years.
13. I care so much about my customers that I do not want them to pay one penny more than they need to and if I was licensed, I would have to include the cost of the license and bonding in my my fees.
14. Why are you asking that question, don't you trust me?
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