where online can you run a home repair license number?

Question

if you want to hire someone to repair your home and their license # appears in their ad, how can u check it to see if they are legal or have any judgements against them?

Answer 1

Unlikely that a state or local government licenses handyman services, i.e., through examination or otherwise determines a minimal level of competence. Usually the "license" is simply an occupational registration, a device for raising local govt revenues. Contact the local government office which issues occupational and business registration certificates. To determine whether the repairman is licensed as a building contractor (residential or commercial) call the local government building permit/inspection department both to determine whether the repairman's name is known there (if the person is capable of pulling a building permit), as well as to determine if the license number is of a type which is issued by state or local goverenment. For judgments (which do necessarily have anything to do with competence) search official records on the website of the local office (clerk of court) which records such records. To determine the status of a business entity (corporation, LLC, individual d/b/a under a fictituous name) search the website of the state agency which registers such entities (frequently secretary of state, corporations division).

Answer 2

YU have to go down to the court house and find out in the county of his business. YOU can go the state govt. site , (state you live in.) and look for contractors. find hios number there. they can help. so can the local inspection dept, but they rarely do, as most of the theicves are large contractors whom they will not bother.

Answer 3

You can run their name through the county municipal public court records (google their website), or better yet...call the Better Business Bureau. They'd have knowledge of any complaints against the business.