Leads for painting outside your geographic area or comfort zone - Paint Talk

Induspray · 02-08-2010, 11:19 AM

I am sure most painting contractors come across requests for quotes on projects that are either outside their service area or are not the types of jobs they want to do, ie a house painter gets a lead on painting a warehouse.

What do you do with these leads???

If anyone comes across leads for warehouse or factories anywhere in the US or Canada we pay a 5% finders fee.

Incidently I have a lead for repainting a church in Omaha that I would be happy to pass on no charge to anyone who wants to go after it.

**RCP** · 02-08-2010, 07:57 PM

How do you handle the State Licensing (where there is any) on work like that? I had someone contact me for a big commercial caulking job and I knew it had to be a company from my state, so I did not even try to reach out here.

Induspray · 02-09-2010, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by RCP

How do you handle the State Licensing (where there is any) on work like that? I had someone contact me for a big commercial caulking job and I knew it had to be a company from my state, so I did not even try to reach out here.

For most states if you are an out of state corporation all you need to do is fill out a form and pay the $250 to $750 and you have state authority to do business there. If there was extensive licencing requirements that would take to long to comply with we would partner up with a local industrial painter and run the job with them. Many states have no licencing requirements for painters at all.

straight_lines · 02-09-2010, 12:13 PM

Down south I have never had to worry about paying of filling out any form. Even general contractors can work in bordering states if they are licensed in their home state.

NEPS.US · 02-09-2010, 09:53 PM

And dont forget the mess of filing tax returns in different (mutliple) states.

I use to try an pass on leads. No good deed goes unpunished.