Pay Per Lead Services in Los Angeles County, CA for General Contractors

Half of Los Angeles County's housing was standing by 1965, the median year built for the county's housing (Source: data.census.gov). Put that next to a median owner-occupied value of $834,200 and you have the reason the remodel enquiry here sounds the way it does: owners sitting on a lot of equity in a house that is sixty years old, who would rather open up the kitchen, convert the garage or add a unit out back than sell and buy again in the same county (Source: census.gov).

The four enquiries, as they arrive from LA

• The kitchen or bath with a number attached. In a house that age it is rarely cosmetic: original cabinets, tired supply lines, a panel that will not carry new appliances. The good version comes from an owner in Long Beach, Glendale or Torrance who has already priced fixtures and wants a start date.
• The garage conversion or ADU. Usually from an owner who wants rent from the back of the lot or room for a parent. These callers have often spoken to an architect already; the question is who builds it.
• The repair with an adjuster in the room. Water from a failed line under an old slab, or fire and smoke damage. CAL FIRE maps 769,561 acres of the county as Very High fire hazard severity, and rebuild work in those zones runs through the insurer before it reaches you (Source: CAL FIRE, Office of the State Fire Marshal).
• The tenant improvement. A storefront or office changing hands in Pomona or downtown, with a landlord's deadline.

Two registrations before the first site visit

Your CSLB Class B licence is the state gate, and CSLB requires its number in every advertisement, which means every campaign we run in your name carries it. Inside the City of Los Angeles there is a second layer: Municipal Code section 21.188 requires every contractor and subcontractor to hold a Business Tax Registration Certificate from the Office of Finance, and that office runs construction site investigations to check (Source: finance.lacity.gov). We ask about both up front, because a lead in Van Nuys is no use to a crew that cannot pull the paperwork there.

What the screen throws back

With 45.9% of homes owner-occupied, a large share of LA callers are tenants who want their landlord to fix something (Source: census.gov). Those do not reach you. Neither does the dreamer with a Pinterest board and no budget, the caller who only wants to know whether an ADU needs a permit, or the job that is really a plumbing or roofing call wearing a remodel label. Remember too that service and repair contracts the homeowner initiates can waive the usual three-day cancellation right; leads tied to emergency water or fire repair behave differently from a planned remodel, and we tag them so you know which you are holding.

The California rule for a general contractor taking leads in Los Angeles County: General building contractors hold the CSLB Class B General Building licence: a contractor whose principal contracting business involves a structure that requires in its construction the use of at least two unrelated building trades or crafts, or who superintends the whole or any part of it (Source: cslb.ca.gov).

Los Angeles County, for a general contractor working these leads: City of Los Angeles: Los Angeles Municipal Code section 21.188 requires all contractors and subcontractors to obtain a Business Tax Registration Certificate from the Office of Finance, which conducts construction site investigations for contractor compliance (Source: finance.lacity.gov).

Worth knowing as a general contractor buying leads in Los Angeles County: CSLB says contractors are required to put their CSLB licence number in all advertisements, and unlicensed operators must state in their ads that they are not state-licensed and can only perform work valued at less than $1,000; Homeowners waive their three-day right to cancel (five-day if they are 65 or older) if they sign a service and repair contract, which is usually emergency repair work the consumer initiated (Source: www2.cslb.ca.gov).

Leads go only to general contractors who can lawfully take the job in Los Angeles County.

Places in Los Angeles County the general contractor lead campaign covers, as the source lists them: Incorporated cities include Los Angeles, Long Beach, Glendale, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, Pomona, Torrance.

County seat on the general contractor lead map for Los Angeles County: Los Angeles.

The same pay per lead service for general contractors in the counties next to Los Angeles County: General contractors in Orange County, General contractors in San Bernardino County, General contractors in Kern County.

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

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