Licensing and what you can bid on

California regulates who may perform home-improvement work, and FastHands enforces that rather than leaving it to chance. What you can bid on depends on your verified license.

What requires a verified license here

• Any job with a total at or above $1,000.
• All plumbing, electrical, and HVAC work, at any price — these route to licensed pros regardless of how small the job is.

If your CSLB license is verified and active, none of this affects you: you see and bid on the work your license covers. The gate exists to keep unlicensed operators out of work that legally requires a license — which is the thing that has been underbidding you.

Why we enforce it instead of asking

Every platform asks contractors to confirm they are licensed. Almost none check. The result is predictable: a licensed pro carrying bonding, insurance, and real overhead loses the job to someone carrying none of it, and the homeowner discovers the difference mid-job.

Checking every license against the state registry, every time, is the whole point. It costs us nothing to enforce and it is worth a great deal to you.

Keep your license active

We re-check licenses, so one that lapses drops you out of eligible work until it is current again. You can check your own status any time at cslb.ca.gov. If your license is active and something still looks wrong, it is usually a name or ZIP mismatch against the registry — see how to join and get verified.