| You're young and strong and have the financial | | | | experience you would need to build twenty or |
| means to build your own house. You have a | | | | more homes a year, for many years. That would |
| truckload full of tools and some experience with a | | | | be near to impossible for an owner/builder to |
| hammer, so you think, "hey, I'm going to build my | | | | accomplish. Additionally, most people who want to |
| own house and be my own Contractor." | | | | use owner/builder experience really only have |
| Admirable if not enviable, but if you plan to use | | | | limited experience because they have |
| that experience in the attempt to one day getting | | | | sub-contracted out parts of the project. So if you |
| your own contractor's license...you can pretty | | | | were to submit that ten to twelve months of |
| much forget it. | | | | experience to the Contractors State License |
| Yes, it may take you ten to twelve months to | | | | Board you would likely be awarded three to four |
| build your dream house, and you may have done | | | | months of total experience. |
| some, most, or even all of the work yourself. But | | | | The documentation required when submitting that |
| a house built does not a contractor make. | | | | owner/builder experience and the poor return |
| The basic requirement to qualify for a California | | | | you'd be given for your hard work, is why I |
| contractor's license is four years of experience at | | | | would suggest not using owner/builder experience |
| the journeyman level. In order for someone to | | | | in the pursuit of obtaining a contractors license. |
| qualify for a license using only owner/builder | | | | |