Eugene’s List Blog

When Eugene’s List first started out, we only recommended licensed contractors. After the initial feedback, we decided to also recommend unlicensed contractors for smaller jobs. The simple reason for this change is that for a smaller job, an unlicensed contractor can often do quality work for considerably less money and only at a slightly increased risk for the homeowner.

Since there is less public information available for a unlicensed contractor and therefore less accountability, we do additional checks for unlicensed contractors including multiple references from homeowners and also references from other contractors. We always inform the homeowner if we recommend an unlicensed contractor.

It was a difficult decision to make to work with unlicensed contractors, but in order to provide the best person for the job for a homeowner, we felt that we should give a homeowner the choice of working with unlicensed contractors.

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