“Professionally Tabbed and Highlighted” Books
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Just gonna die laughing here on this one. One of the Florida schools that rents books boasts that their “Exam Ready Books” are “Professionally Tabbed and Highlighted”… What that means, according to their instructor(s) in the live class, is that the books are tabbed and highlighted by the owner’s grandkids, who are in school and
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Manatee County Permitting
Tuesday, 09 July 2019
The Manatee County Building Department is now paperless. The new Online Services Portal is a pretty neat way to get all your permitting done. There are still some folks out there who do not Internet, so if you need to get set up in Manatee County or need help filing an online permit, you can
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ECLB Grandfathering is BACK!
Friday, 05 July 2019
Registered Electrical Contractors can grandfather their licenses to a state certified license again! Get rid of the reciprocity agreements! Make your life much easier! The conditions are pretty straight-forward: 1. General Requirements for Grandfathering a. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, be of good moral character, meet the requirements, and pay all
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Continuing Education Emails and other Solicitations
Friday, 03 May 2019
Comes the time when the schools who provide continuing education send out “important” information and “act now” for continuing education… If you are State Certified, your continuing education isn’t needed until August 31st, 2020. The reason you are getting blasted with marketing by schools is because the Registered Contractors (very few) have their continuing education
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Reinstatement of a License
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Hi , Everyone, Today I had a gentleman in my office who took a trip to a Sarasota Exam Preparation (not BEES or CEI or Mark Paloski) school that helped him license 4 times, starting back in 1976. 4 times they took his money. He came to my office today after spending over $3200 for
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Changes to Rule 61G4-15.0021 Business Organizations
Thursday, 28 February 2019
There are changes taking effect today 2/28/2019 to the Business Organizations portion of Rule 61G4-15.0021; most notably, striking out the 50%/50% rule of ownership to avoid appearing before the board. The language of the rule is now simplified. 61G4-15.0021 Business Organizations. (1) For purposes of this rule practice as an individual is considered practice as
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