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<p class="MsoNormal">From my position (not having to defend anything) I would say no, provided the developer is using “<span style="color:black">the services of a qualified contractor certified or registered pursuant to the requirements of this chapter have
been or will be retained for the purpose of constructing or completing such residences.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">It is confusing because the first part, “that offers to sell or sells completed residences on property” appears to speak of only finished homes, while the second part clearly describes constructing a home.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thus, we have an internally inconsistent rule (good job drafters – a lawyer full-employment rule!) and you pick your poison. If the developer is not designating the specific contractor (the choice is left to the buyer later) then at the
time of contract signing, it is impossible to put any license number on the contract. If the developer has a list of captive (preferred) contractors that the buyer must choose from, then I’d list them all by name and number.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose">Under the “better safe that sorry” principle, I would put it on there. There’s no downside to that that I see.<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">In a strict sense, if the contract is signed before construction is complete, it’s probably fairly considered a contract for construction and the license number would be required. If the contract
is signed after the house is finally complete/punched out/move in ready, and no work is being done to the house under the sales contract, it’s perhaps just a contract for the sale of a house, but that a gray, porous, and dangerous line to rely on.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am working on a research project for a client. A question that has come up is whether there is any requirement to have a contractor registration or certification number listed on a purchase agreement between
a single family home builder and the purchaser of a single family home. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">489.119(5)(b) provides that “the registration or certification number of each contractor shall appear in each offer of services, business proposal, bid, contract, or advertisement, regardless of medium, as defined
by board rule, used by that contractor or business organization in the practice of
<b><u>contracting</u></b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The “developer exemption” in 489.105(6) states that “the term “contracting” shall not extend to an individual, partnership, corporation, trust, or other legal entity that offers to sell or sells completed residences
on property on which the individual or business entity has any legal or equitable interest, or to the individual or business entity that offers to sell or sells manufactured or factory-built buildings that will be completed on site on property on which either
party to a contract has any legal or equitable interest, if the services of a qualified contractor certified or registered pursuant to the requirements of this chapter have been or will be retained for the purpose of constructing or completing such residences.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Assume the client qualifies for the developer exemption. Since a purchase agreement between a developer and a purchaser of a residence isn’t a contract used by a contractor in the practice of contracting, my initial
opinion was that the statutes are pretty clear, and because developers aren’t “contracting,” there is no party to the purchase agreement between the developer and purchaser that could constitute a “contractor” practicing “contracting” where there needs to
be a registration/certification number pursuant to 489.119.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Am I missing anything here? The answer seems pretty easy but the client is worried that it needs to have a contractor certification or registration number on every purchase contract and has asked me to triple check.
If a developer has retained a contractor to build the homes sold by the developer to the purchaser is there some other authority that requires the developer to list the contractor’s license number on the purchase contract even though the contractor is not
a party to the purchase agreement and is only retained by the developer and not the purchaser?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks for any input. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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