Running the Business · Part 3
Contracts and Getting Paid
19 lessons
The home improvement contract with every required notice, the deposit cap that CSLB cites most, change orders, the 20-day notice, mechanics liens, collections, and three cases where a contractor lost money on paper before losing it on the job.
Lessons in this module
- 1The home improvement contract (B&P 7159): every required element, the exact notices, and the three-day right to cancel 14m
- 2The deposit cap: $1,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, and progress payments that cannot exceed the work. CSLB's most common citation 10m
- 3Service and repair contracts (B&P 7159.10): when the short form applies, what it must say, and how a service call falls out of it 11m
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