Check a License

Education · Free, from Contractors State License Board

Verify any contractor's license, bond and complaint history free, before signing a build contract.

Worth reading the same board's rebuild rules before you sign anything. It says the law treats rebuilding after a fire as a home improvement project, so the contract must be fixed price, and the down payment cannot be more than 1,000 dollars or 10 percent of the total, whichever is less. Its disaster hotline is 800-962-1125. Where this comes from

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