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Surety bonds can be a time-consuming enterprise. Even people with decades of experience in the industry can have trouble finding the right bonds for their projects, let alone getting them on time, and at a reasonable price.
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Disadvantaged business enterprises, or DBEs, are, as the name suggests, at a disadvantage when it comes to surety bonds. This prevents businesses run by minorities from being as competitive as they could be, keeping them out of the running on larger contracting jobs like government projects or road construction.
However, there are a number of programs and practices in place to help DBEs get bonded, giving DBEs the same opportunities as everyone else.
We talked to Wally Zimolong, of Philadelphia’s Zimolong LLC, a construction, real estate, and development firm that specializes in disadvantaged business enterprises, about some of the opportunities and challenges facing DBEs presently.
The key to developing a successful relationship with a surety is to read and understand the bond and its requirements, says Vincent T. Pallaci, managing partner at Kushnick Pallaci PLLC.
“Failure to follow the protocol set forth in the bond documents can lead to catastrophic results for the contractor,” he says.
It’s not often you meet someone who developed a passion for construction law as a kid. Unless, of course, his dad is Steven Siegfried, who’s been in Construction Law since 1976 and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami since 1984.
You could say attorney Nicholas David Siegfried, a shareholder with Florida-based Siegfried, Rivera, Hyman, Lerner, De La Torre, Mars & Sobel, P.A. (SRHL), has Construction Law in his blood.
The practice of farming is one that brings up images of fields in the morning mist and heaps of fresh fruit and vegetables. However, for a farm labor contractor, farming is very much about employee management.
In order to ensure that you are a responsible farm labor contractor, you are required to hold a farm labor contractor’s bond. This reassures your employees and the government that you will treat your workforce well.
If you work in the City of Houston to install sidewalks, driveways, curbs, and gutters, you are required to have a permit from the City of Houston and you must get a surety bond before you can be issued the permit.
This permit lasts for a year and ensures that you will abide by the conditions set out in the public works design manual section. You must abide by city ordinances regarding the construction, reconstruction, and repair of sidewalks, culverts, driveways, gutters, and curbs. You can learn more about the permit at the Houston Permitting Center website.
As a residential contractor, you help build the dreams of families and individuals who are trying to make or renovate a home. You are responsible for their project and you need to ensure that you conduct yourself ethically and to the best of your ability. To make sure that your customers are protected, you must hold a surety bond.
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