A contractor offers a two-year labor warranty on a deck repair. What is the best contract practice under CSLB guidance?
Correct Answer
D) Get the labor and material warranty terms in writing.
CSLB guidance tells consumers to get any warranty offered for labor and materials in writing.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
CSLB guidance tells consumers to get any warranty offered for labor and materials in writing.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Leave the warranty verbal if the owner trusts the contractor.
Leave the warranty verbal if the owner trusts the contractor. skips the written authority, scope, price, notice, or release control needed for project contracts.
Option B: Keep warranty terms in the service file without adding them to the owner-facing agreement.
Keep warranty terms in the service file without adding them to the owner-facing agreement. skips the written authority, scope, price, notice, or release control needed for project contracts.
Option C: Put warranty terms in a separate file that the owner cannot see until final payment.
Put warranty terms in a separate file that the owner cannot see until final payment. skips the written authority, scope, price, notice, or release control needed for project contracts.
Memory Technique
When cslb clashes with guidance, let the contract speak before Completing Written.
Reference Hint
Study anchor (closed-book): memorize Project contracts from CSLB 2026 Law Book; CSLB Home Improvement Contracts / Business and Professions Code Section 7159; know the rule or calculation trigger without relying on exam-room lookup.
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