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    Any help on Florida's laws!...

    Hwy im 17 and been doing girlfriends family's cars for a bit, but now i got some other peoples cars that one there's done... Now i dont have a name of cards like that(do retailing small businees for fun on the side and already know there laws bout it) but do i need a license to do other peoples cars for side money??? im only 17 which makes a difference i know...

    Thanks!
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    Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

    Probably the best thing to do would be to either call or go to your City Hall and ask them what requirements must be met in order to start a Mobil Detailing Business and see what they provide you with.

    At a minimum, you'll want,

    DBA form - This is a "Doing Business As" form
    Phone number
    Business card

    Your local government can tell you what you'll need to do in order to start a legitimate mobil detaling business. Many people don't go down this road when they first start out and just get the business card printed and any checks they recieive they have made out to their first and last name so thay can cash them. If you have a check and it's made out to Mega-Gloss Mobile Detailing, then you won't be able to cash the check until you get a DBA and then open a Business Checking Account under the name "Mega-Gloss Mobile Detailing".

    Make a couple of phone calls to the City Hall, perhaps your local Small Business Administration and even any local detailers; ask them what steps they had to take to start their business.
    Mike Phillips
    760-515-0444
    showcargarage@gmail.com
    "Find something you like and use it often"

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    • #3
      Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

      It sounds like you are basically involved in the hobby of automobile detailing. In that case you should not need to be licensed. However, at some point in the future, if you continue to gain more and more paying customers, then you will need to get registered as a business. For right now, it is only a hobby.
      FRANK CANNA
      Mirror Finish Detailing
      23rd Year 1986-2009

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      • #4
        Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

        Thank y'all for the replies! Appreciate it alot

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        • #5
          Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

          If he's charging money, he needs to follow whatever rules and regulations in his city/county.

          He needs to check with business licensing and planning/zoning at city hall.

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          • #6
            Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

            That is right, if you are charging for your services you are a business. Every city requires you to have a business license. You need to have insurance, being only 17 your parents are responsible for anything you do, wrong. You damage a car, they are responsible. You do bodily harm to someone, they are responsible.

            What are you doing with the waste water from washing the car? This is illegal to dump it on the ground or into the storm drain. Against the Federal Clean Water act.

            You need to set up a legitimate business or you and your parents could be in a heap of trouble should something go wrong.

            Of course, we are careful, we do not intend for things to go wrong. That is why we have insurance. That is why you need to do things right and to get insurance. Talk with your parents about what I have told you.

            Regards
            Bud Abraham
            DETAIL PLUS SYSTEMS

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            • #7
              Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

              i lived in florida for a number of years and was required by LAW to have a occupational lincese and liability ins. you also in florida have to be inc. or llc co. please look into state regulations about the waste water and by products of mobile detailing. you might be required to catch and contain all by products of the mobile detail/wash.
              custom mobile detailing located in central maine

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              • #8
                Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

                [QUOTE=buda;145801 ....Every city requires you to have a business license...
                Regards
                Bud Abraham
                DETAIL PLUS SYSTEMS[/QUOTE]

                Hey, that's one of the reasons I moved to Cody, Wyoming! No business licenses, no city business taxs, and for that matter .... NO STATE INCOME TAX.

                (The population is very well armed. Coincidence? )

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                • #9
                  Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

                  I'm with YOU STG! It's stupid for a 17 year old kid to have to go through all that **** to wash a few cars. Sounds like he was going over to their houses and washing them in the driveway - that's against the Feds down there? Damn glad I live in NC, at least we still have a few people in charge with some common sense here. Meanwhile there's a few hundred thousand "quest workers" from south of the border, working without lincense, insurance, or paying taxes - now why the hell doesn't the imperial federal guv-ment do something about that?

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                  • #10
                    Re: Any help on Florida's laws!...

                    Ya I'm with the others who say go about your casual detailing and don't worry about it.

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