Pay Per Call Marketing in Queens County, NY for General Contractors

Queens shares a land border with Nassau County, outside New York City, and for a general contractor that line matters more than any other in the borough. New York State issues no home improvement licence of its own and leaves that to some counties and local municipalities (Source: dos.ny.gov). On the Queens side of the line, the city's Home Improvement Contractor licence applies. A few streets east, in Nassau County, the city licence no longer covers you and other rules take over. A caller in Bellerose or Floral Park may not know which side they live on.

Settling the address first

So every Queens call starts with the street address, not the neighbourhood name the caller offers. The borough has 2,316,841 people in 910,206 housing units (Source: census.gov; data.census.gov), and its neighbourhoods run from Astoria and Long Island City on the East River to Rockaway Beach on the ocean, with Jamaica, the county seat, in between (Source: wikipedia.org). A crew based in Flushing may cover Jackson Heights and Forest Hills happily and never go near the Rockaways. Tell us where you stop. Addresses beyond it, including any on the Nassau side, are not put through to you unless you say you work there too.

The other edges are Brooklyn to the south-west and, across the water, the Bronx and Manhattan. A Long Island City caller with a second unit in Manhattan wants both priced; we note it, and you decide.

On the call itself

1. Owner, or acting for one? Queens has more owner-occupied homes than Brooklyn, but more than half the borough still rents. A tenant is sent back to the landlord, politely, and goes no further.
2. Planned or urgent? A planned job needs a spending range and a target month. Damage needs the leak shut off first, and a yes or no on a claim.
3. One trade or several? A job that is mostly pipework belongs to a city-licensed plumber, so it goes there. A kitchen or a bath that needs several trades coordinated is yours.
4. Building approval? For a unit in a co-op or condo building, whether the board or managing agent has signed off on the work. Without that, the call waits.

Turned away, and unbilled

Questions about whether a dormer needs a permit stop with us, as do requests for a phone price on an extension that needs an architect first. If you work only inside the city, an address on the Nassau side never reaches you either.

Calls that pass are exclusive: each lands with a single Queens builder and is never offered to a rival, and their answers ride along with the transfer, so your first question can be about the work.

The New York rule for a general contractor taking calls in Queens County: The NYS Department of State says: "NYS does not license home improvement contractors, but some counties and local municipalities do"; There is no state general contractor licence; the licence that matters is the county or city one for the address of the job (Source: dos.ny.gov).

Queens, for a general contractor working these calls: New York City requires a Home Improvement Contractor licence from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP): "A person or business must have a Home Improvement Contractor license to do construction, repair, remodeling, or other home improvement work to any residential land or building in New York City"; Applicants post a $20,000 surety bond (or enrol in the Trust Fund, $200 fee), pass a 30-question exam, and the licence period is 2 years (Source: nyc.gov).

Worth knowing as a general contractor buying calls in Queens County: The NYS Department of State's consumer guidance: "You have three days to cancel after signing a contract for home improvements," and cancellations must be in writing; It also advises a written contract with start and finish dates, scope of work and itemized price, and not paying the full amount upfront (Source: dos.ny.gov).

Calls go only to general contractors who can lawfully take the job in Queens County.

Places in Queens County the general contractor call campaign covers, as the source lists them: Queens neighborhoods: Flushing, Jamaica, Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills, Rockaway Beach, Howard Beach, Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens.

County seat on the general contractor call map for Queens: Jamaica.

The same pay per call service for general contractors in the counties next to Queens County: General contractors in Kings County, General contractors in Nassau County, General contractors in Bronx County, General contractors in New York County.

Other trades we run calls for in Queens County: Locksmiths, Roofers, HVAC & Air Conditioning Companies, Plumbers, Mobile Mechanics, Painters, Exterminators & Pest Control, Property Management Companies.

Queens County is one of the 64 counties we cover for general contractors, and every one is listed on the General Contractors pay per call index.