Understand and Obtain Necessary Licenses

beginning and that is having a license and I'll talk about our state here I'm in the United States I live in Boise Idaho and every state in the nation typically has their own rules and regulations when it comes to being licensed I'll talk specifically about my state and then I'll talk a little bit about some other states out there that have some different rules and regulations now in the state of Idaho you don't have to have a license to be a painter so I can just grab a truck I can throw a paint brush and a bucket in the back I could throw an arrow sprayer and actually I don't even they throw any of that stuff in the back I can just call myself a painter and start painting people's houses with no limit to how much those houses or the job's gonna cost so there are some things in Idaho that are a little unusual and different there is what we call being a registered contractor now I do need to be a registered contractor if I'm gonna act in any type of contracting business that could be painting it could be framing drywall I have to be a registered contractor now are all contractors registered no maybe not even 50% of them and it is just a $25 fee and you become registered so the state of Idaho knows you're doing business now that differs from state to state that's kind of what it looks like in Idaho to become a painter now I'll talk about California who's significantly different and I had a student in one of my academies that we just had and it was our painting and deck or wallpaper and decorative coatings Academy and he's a painter in the state of California and he's not a licensed painter and I asked him what it took to be licensed and and who needs to be licensed and he said in California if you do any type of painting job that's over five hundred dollars then you need to have a license and my understanding in the state of California is you have to go through some competent to Seeds tests to show that you're a qualified journeyman so you have to work up through an apprentice process under a journeyman painter who documents it and then you can eventually get licensed after you take an extensive test and pass that test so it is different from state to state so you're gonna have to investigate your state we'll leave some links down below to our state of the government agencies where you can go get a license and you can follow up of that and that'll give you some leads to possibly some other states but I think it's very important that you if you're acting as…