Rating List of Installer / Service companies by Nationals

[Erik Sine]

Well, we have a directory for rating on National Sign & Service Companies and how they pay and what the relationships are like, and now one for Suppliers, Equipment & Wholesalers. Is there anything else we should be setting up? Sometimes the things I think are important aren't, and the ones I think aren't end up being important. Odd thing. But I'm asking, any suggestions?

Interesting. ( I seem to be using this word a lot, I suppose it's better than repeating , "Uhh")

Shooter just brought up a good point to me, I know he's jabbin at my for my want for more Big Government to "line my pockets" on ridding illegal subcontracting. But creating such a list is contributing to the illegal contracting and subcontracting that goes on across state lines. I know I touched on it lightly in the Sign A Rama thread and to a point directly in not getting paid by a national sign service company in the past.

Something our industry hasn't dealt with yet, nor really brought to the forefront. What are the real legalities when it comes to national sign and service companies who hire licensed subs in states where they themselves are not licensed? Or the service management companies who carries no license at all who sub in states where it is required? Like WA, CA, AZ, LV, TX and others? These are huge contracts!

In the past we have all complained at some point of not getting paid on a decent time or not at all. In a lot of ways, as contractors we may be giving up our protections as contractors by being subbed by an illegal contractor. That is the way it would play in my state of CA. No way to file a valid lien. So how do we protect ourselves, or are we in some way protected? In our states we cannot collect from the end user, or can we?

A quandary for sure!