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Missing out on projects because your bonding capacity is maxed?
In today’s bonding market, many surety companies are tightening up their underwriting considerably, and are extending less surety credit than ever before. They are less willing to stretch, even when it makes sense. Florida Surety Bonds has strong relationships with the best surety companies and represents over 600 contractors […]
The Winning Edge is often an Intangible we call Heart.
You’ve gotta have heart! Your prospective bond agent can have experience, fancy cars, technical skills, equipment, pricing, computers, fancy software, and more. The bonding agency can represent over 30 surety companies, over 600 contractors, and have a couple of offices […]
Need a Bond Under $750,000?
There are several fine sureties that can provide a bond for you under $350,000 if you have clean personal credit. No need for expensive CPA statements or all the other paperwork sureties normally require. If you are looking for standard bonds under $750,000 and have good credit, there a […]
Florida Now Prohibits Driving While Texting, E-Mailing, or Instant Messaging
Must a General Contractor Reveal Who He is Using for Subcontractors and Material Suppliers?
If it is the owner who is asking, that would be an emphatic yes. An owner has a very vested interest in who the subcontractors and suppliers are to the general contractor. Under the Florida Lien Law, if the general contractor fails to pay a supplier or subcontractor, then the owner […]
Sureties are getting Skittish
As a contractor, you know better than your surety what is happening in the construction marketplace. You see certain contractors who are so desperate for work that they are bidding work at unprofitable levels just to keep their crews busy. You know that a contractor cannot sustain their operations […]
Disappointing Jobs Numbers In July Might Force Fed to Continue Quantitative Easing – Or Not
We only gained 162,000 jobs in July. Unemployment dropped to 7.4% but that was largely from frustrated people giving up on even trying to find a job. According to the government, you aren’t unemployed unless you are actively seeking work. For some reason, the Fed is apparently more interested in this […]
You Have Millions of Reasons Not to Sign a Bad Bond Form!
People are not generally evil. They don’t create malicious bond forms because they want to hurt everyone they meet. Usually the toughest of language in a bond form can be traced back to a bad experience the owner or General Contractor is trying to avoid in the future. We […]