Well...... if any of this were true, what a wonderful world we'd be living in. But.... this just isn't the case.
There are specific laws the cslb uses for some of their actions, and there are underground regs they've created to allow them to do what they want.
1) Additional work experience forms won't make a difference.
2) The law does state that the cslb can ask for any additional documentation necessary to prove your experience.
3) There is nothing in the law that says the cslb can't send a verification form of some type to the certifier/employer, even though they've already signed the certifier section of the app.
4) Building 2 homes in 5 yrs does not a contractor make. The law requires that you have at least 4 yrs at the journeyman level. Building 2 homes in 5 yrs does not, necessarily, make someone a journeyman.
5) Although mom or dad could sign your experience form, but do they have the skills and knowledge to know that the work done was done at the journeyman level?
6) I've been fighting for what is right for many years, so have many others in my industry, yet, the cslb still does whatever they want. I too say fight, but if the cslb wants to see ABC and you give them XYZ, they will not give you a license.
) Call first. If you have the techs number, call! If you can't get a hold of them, write a letter, or call me. I'll give you some alternatives.
I think what I said is very accurate.
I am not suggesting sending 'more' Work Experience Forms. I am suggesting sending 'new' forms with information that will supersede the first forms with an additional work experience history that the applicant did not think about in the beginning. It appears that most people think they have to work a 40-hour week and get a steady paycheck to qualify for a license and this is the the error that many applicants make.
Building two homes in a 4 or 5 year period does qualify for a license when the applicant does the work required for the classification. An applicant is not immediately rejected because an applicant's mother does not have the expertise to know whether the quality of the work is within the guidelines required. All the mother needs to know is that her son did really perform the work and she must be able to describe the work performed. There are thousands of idiots who work for someone as much as 60 hours a week in their trades and they are so brainless they should not qualify. The applicant with the mother's signature has the same chance of being accepted as the idiot who worked for a company.
If a person works in the trade building 2 homes in a 4 or 5 year period and if that person does the trades required for the license classification he wants then he has the same rights to get a license as any other person regardless of who signs the work experience form as long as the person who signs the form knows that the applicant actually performed the work required and regardless of the quality of work. The work experience form does not as the signor to verify quality nor quantity.
The B General Contractor License is for a very broad field that includes hundreds of trade duties, but an applicant only has to have worked in a small number of the trades within the general contracting field. For example, a person can qualify for a B license and he never performed a plumbing, heating, dry walling, or roofing task. The average person applying for the license can qualify by having performed a small percent of the actual trades within the license and any person who knows that the applicant performed the work can submit a Work Experience Form on behalf of the applicant and the more Work Experience Forms 'the better'. The Work Experience Form asks what the signor's relationship is to the applicant and it is up the the CSLB to accept or ignore the work experience form, but if the mother is truly the only person close enough to the applicant to know what he did for 4 years then the applicant can contest the rejection (not sure about whether or not through an attorney, arbitration, etc.).
I would not 'roll over and play dead, yet! Think about what you did for the past 4 years and have every person who knows what you did submit a Work Experience Form including your mother, father, friends, neighbors, supply houses, accountant, attorney, city workers, engineers, architect, and then call the CSLB on the phone because the personal touch works wonders for credibility.