re: Home improvement contractors could become extinct in Louisiana

Can't be over $10k. fricking easy, just break up the work orders to be short of $10k.

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Can't be over $10k. fricking easy, just break up the work orders to be short of $10k.

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You can't do this when obtaining permits. They have ways to catch on to people trying to do this.

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If it's not structural, gas or plumbing....who cares

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The only people who has any interest whatsoever is the home owner and their mortgage company and their insurance carrier. The latter 2 are all in on having as many people on the hook as possible...they ain't going to support any kind of blanket action that would drive up the costs to consumers...they will merely refuse to pay claims and charge more for interest when a homeowner does something stupid. The licensing board though, they care...they have a vested interest in who is doing what to your home because they do not want any competition.

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frick these MF it’s my home and I should be able to do what ever the frick I want! This is crazy that the voters are allowing the state to over step like this. I am probably going to move and sell as soon as I have the opportunity. I just don’t get it.

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Good luck finding any areas where the licensing boards for building trades, especially, ain't in the process of running rough shod over property owners and consumers...it is across the board, red states, blue states, makes no difference because it is all about green. County zoning boards are just as bad...

Do some research into how arc fault circuit interupters came about, how they "work" (they do not), how much they have increased the costs to wire a house and how little they have done to improve the safety of wiring in homes in the United States. All pushed by manufacturers, one in particular who missed out on the initial GFCI windfall...Siemens...

Once was time when a man would cut green lumber off his place, stack rocks up for a foundation, build a home out of said green lumber and raise a family. Some of those buildings still exist today around the world. Find a tract house development built in 2023 in 2073 and see how many major renovations had to be done...not remodeling to keep up with style changes but major renos because of shoddy workmanship and shoddy materials required by laws and ordinances put in place by people who make their nut charging people to build and install such crap. These things are costing Americans billions of dollars, is doing nothing to improve safety, doing nothing to protect property values and doing nothing to make housing more affordable....but folks will line up around the corner to buy a home in an HOA community because folks are dumber than a sack of hammers and can't imagine a real estate developer, a building contractor or a mortgage broker being a crooked son of a bitch...it has to be the politicians. And it is, at the behest of the industry.

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I did not know for certain that the Louisiana board was made up of large, well heeled contractors

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Here are some of the current board and what they do for a living

Michael McDuff - Associated Builders & Contractors Legal Dept

Lee Mallett - Owner Mallet Buildings

William J. Clouatre - VP at Brown and Root

Nelson “Andy” Dupuy, Jr. - Brown and Root

Elliott Temple - Owner Ceg Inc (contractors)

Lloyd “Chip” Badeaux - Past vice president of the Bayou Industrial Group

Ronald Barron - President - Don M. Barron Contractor, Inc.

Brian J. Bordelon - President at Triad Electric and Controls, Inc.

N. R. “Noah” Broussard - Acadian Contractors

Kristen Brown - Brown Builders

Courtney A. Fenet, Jr. - Vice President at R. E. Heidt Construction Co., Inc

August Gallo - Gallo Mechanical

Donald G. Lambert - Owner Donald G Lambert Consultant Specializing in: - Construction Consultants

Garland Meredith - Owner TWIN CITY ELECTRIC, LLC

Joel Rushing - Division Senior VP, Construction at Turner Industries

Christopher N. Stuart - Stuart and Co General Contractors

Keith Tillage - Owner - Tillage Construction LLC

Victor Weston - President and owner of Tri-State Road Boring Inc (GC firm)


I think there were two I couldn't confirm 100% but you can see they all have a vested interest in cutting out the ability of smaller handyman from being able to work without being under a GC

Do we have a few General contractors or their relatives in the Legislature? Looks like the good ole boys want to limit competition.

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Most of our Republicans are just big government social conservatives.

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AKA RINOs

How many leglslators supporting this are term limited?

This is the negative of term limits. At the endc of their last term, they become completely unaccountable.

Hopefully there are enough people running for re-election who want to get re-elected, to beat this back.

Also, there aren't enough contractors - licensed or otherwise - to do home renovation work as it is.

$10,000 is such a low bar, especially right now