CBHVAC wrote:
"Don" wrote in message

Well, you can start by reading the messages in this group from people that
have been ripped by licensed companies.
By having to pay the state ransoms, licenses, mandated insurance, workmans
comp., etc., etc. the licensed company must charge more than the
unlicensed for a comparable service.

An insured company vs. an uninsured company are not comparable
services.

This is Basic Accounting 101 which you seem to be ignorant of.

Nevermind the Basic Accounting. Basic Common Sense should tell you to
check that the contractor has both liability and disability insurance.

Umm...basic licence fees here are $150 a year..so..you are telling me that I
have to charge 150 bux more over 365 days...ok...
Basic Accounting 101....customer pays for all, but when the customer is
already paying less than the other rapist in town, with us..guess what
bucky? No one notices..its called cost of doing business.
And BTW..around here, its the hacks that are charging out the ass.
Its one reason out of many that if you get caught, its a felonly.

Exactly. Licensing is cheap. If a guy is skimping on that, what else
is he skimping on? You figure even a small contractor, a one man
operation, should be billing out $75K as a minimum (and likely much
more than that), so licensing would add, at most, 1% to his cost of
business. Spread out over the course of a year, the "bite" to each
individual customer is negligible. Hardly a reason to avoid licensing.

R