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How to Verify a Contractor's License in Florida (Before You Sign Anything)

Writer: Daniel Conte
Daniel Conte
Sep 6
2 min read

After a hurricane, South Florida sees a wave of contractors going door to door offering repairs, roofing, and impact windows. Most are legitimate. Some are not — and the difference can cost you thousands of dollars, or leave you with work that doesn't meet Florida's hurricane building code.


Here's the problem: almost anyone can hand you a printed license or a laminated card. That alone doesn't prove anything.


A license shown to you isn't the same as a license that covers the work

Florida requires contractors doing structural work — roofing, impact windows and doors, and similar home improvements — to hold an active license issued by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR).


The detail most homeowners miss: the license needs to be held by the business you're hiring, not just by an individual who happens to work for them. It's common for a salesperson or subcontractor to show you someone else's license, or an individual license that isn't tied to the company on your contract at all. If the company doing the work isn't the one the license is registered to, that license doesn't legally cover your project.


How to verify a contractor's license yourself (takes under 2 minutes)

You don't need to take anyone's word for it — Florida's license database is public and free to search:

  1. Go to the DBPR's official verification tool: myfloridalicense.com/portalsearches/VerifyLicensee

  2. Search by the business name on your contract or estimate — not just the salesperson's name.

  3. Confirm the license status shows Current/Active (not expired, suspended, or "delinquent").

  4. Check the license type matches the work: a Certified General Contractor (CGC) or Certified Building Contractor (CBC) license covers roofing and window/door installation. A specialty license may not.

  5. Confirm the licensed business name matches the company name on your paperwork exactly.


Red flags to watch for

  • They only show you a photo of a license card, and won't give you the license number to look up yourself.

  • The license is under a person's name, but you're signing a contract with a different company name.

  • The license shows as inactive, expired, or under disciplinary action.

  • They pressure you to sign the same day, before you've had a chance to verify anything.


Premier Hurricane Solutions — licensed the way it should be

Premier Hurricane Solutions holds Florida license CGC1539461, registered to the company — not to an individual salesperson. You can verify it yourself, right now, using

the same tool above. We're licensed and insured for impact windows and doors, roofing, accordion shutters, air conditioning, and zebra blinds across Miami-Dade and Broward County.


 
 
 

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