If you hire a person to complete work on your home, he most likely needs to be licensed. Persons doing the following work are required to be licensed:
- Residential Building Contractor. A person in the business of building residential real estate, or of contracting or offering to contract with an owner to build residential real estate, by providing two or more special skills*. A residential building contractor may also contract or offer to contract with an owner to improve existing residential real estate.
- Residential Remodeler. A person in the business of contracting or offering to contract with an owner to improve existing residential real estate by providing two or more special skills as defined in this section.
- Residential Roofer. A person in the business of contracting, or offering to contract with an owner, to complete work on residential real estate in roof coverings, roof sheathing, roof weatherproofing and insulation, and repair of roof systems, but not construction of new roof systems.
- Plumbing contractors and electric contractors should be licensed in order to do any work in your home or commercial business.
(*Special Skills: Excavation, masonry and concrete, carpentry, interior finish, exterior finish, drywall and plaster, residential roofing, general installation specialties – see MN Statutes 326B.802 Subd. 15 for further information.)
