AZROC - Not My Favorite Agency

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, as you recall I posted about all the complicated license changes here
in Arizona a while back.  Well, my licenses renew the end of the month and
its time to deal with that headache.  I have a commercial and a residential
license.  Well technically I have two combination residential AND commercial
licenses now for the exact same thing.  First I have to send in a separate
form to cancel one of my licenses.  I can't just send in both forms with
cancel scrawled across one.  If I did that they would cancel my license in
bad standing, and then cancel my other license because I have a canceled
license.  I'm not kidding.  I was told that almost verbatim.

You would think that would save me some money though.  On paper it looks
like it would, but it doesn't really.  They increased the bond amount for
residential, and because it's a combination license they combine the bond
amounts for both commercial and residential.  It makes for a HUGE increase
in bond amounts.  As a result my fee for bond insurance costs more now for
one year for one license than it did for both license bonds previously for
three years.

Of course I still have to pay the mandated by law bribe to the AZROC's beer
and bowling fund... er I mean contribution to the contractor recovery fund.
In over 20 years I have never had a license complaint, and only two BBB
complaints (both from people who in their own words (I read their
complaints) just didn't want to pay what they owed), and still have to pay
that F_____G bribe every time I renew my licenses.  That's just not right.

Sorry guys.  I just had to vent for a minute.

You know my tax license that I never had to renew?  That one shining beacon
in the darkness.  Starting this year I have to pay a fee to renew it every
year.  It's the freaking license that allows me to collect sales taxes so I
can pay them to the state or they will throw my ass in jail.  I have to pay
for the priviledge of paying them.

Arizona is starting to feel more and more like Kalfornicastan.

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Bob La Londe
The Security Consultant
Licenses ROC103044 & ROC103047

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