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    "note": "Everything here is free to read. There is no account, no signup, and no login. Verifiant counts anonymous reads of each lesson; no reading history is associated with you."
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  "notice": "Verifiant is not the State of Arizona, the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, or a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. It describes public process and public record, and links to the official sources so you can read them yourself.",
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      "kind": "Course",
      "title": "Checking a License Before You Hire",
      "path": "/learn/courses/checking-a-license-before-you-hire",
      "where": "Before You Hire",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-10",
      "dek": "A short walk through the public record behind a license check: what the words mean, why the time it was read counts, and how to read one honestly."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Lesson",
      "title": "What a License Check Shows",
      "path": "/learn/lessons/what-a-license-check-shows",
      "where": "Checking a License Before You Hire",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-10",
      "dek": "A license check is one question asked of one place: what does Arizona public record publish for this license number? The answer comes back in public record's own words, with the time it was read."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Lesson",
      "title": "What a License Check Does Not Show",
      "path": "/learn/lessons/what-a-license-check-does-not-show",
      "where": "Checking a License Before You Hire",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A license check answers one narrow question."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "When Arizona Requires a Contractor License",
      "path": "/learn/facts/license-required-at-one-thousand",
      "where": "Licensing",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "One thousand dollars, labor and materials together."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "A Contractor Without a License Cannot Sue for Payment",
      "path": "/learn/facts/cannot-sue-without-a-license",
      "where": "Licensing",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A contractor who worked without the license the job required cannot use Arizona's courts to collect for it."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "The Window for a Complaint to the Registrar",
      "path": "/learn/facts/roc-complaint-window-two-years",
      "where": "The Registrar's process",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Two years is the window."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "What a Registrar Complaint Can and Cannot Order",
      "path": "/learn/facts/roc-discipline-not-money",
      "where": "The Registrar's process",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "The Registrar investigates and disciplines; it does not write checks."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "The Recovery Fund's Limits",
      "path": "/learn/facts/recovery-fund-caps",
      "where": "Getting money back",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Thirty thousand dollars per residence, two hundred thousand in total against any single license: those are the Recovery Fund's outer walls."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "Two Routes into the Recovery Fund",
      "path": "/learn/facts/recovery-fund-two-routes",
      "where": "Getting money back",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "There are two roads into the fund, and only one of them runs through a courtroom."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "What a Residential Contract Must Contain",
      "path": "/learn/facts/written-contract-required-elements",
      "where": "Contracts and payment",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Over one thousand dollars, the contract goes on paper, by law."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "The Payment Schedule Arizona Sets for Pool Contracts",
      "path": "/learn/facts/pool-contract-draw-schedule",
      "where": "Contracts and payment",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Arizona wrote the payment schedule for pools into the statute itself."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "The Owner Occupant Shield Against Subcontractor Liens",
      "path": "/learn/facts/owner-occupant-lien-shield",
      "where": "Liens",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A subcontractor or supplier who never signed a written contract with the owner occupant cannot enforce a mechanics lien against that person's dwelling; Arizona reserves that against owner occupied homes for the contractor the owner actually hired."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "The Cancellation Right for Door to Door Sales",
      "path": "/learn/facts/door-to-door-cancellation",
      "where": "Sales at your door",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A sale made at your own door comes with three business days to walk away, and the seller owes you written notice of that right."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Fact",
      "title": "Arizona's Small Claims Limit",
      "path": "/learn/facts/small-claims-limit-five-thousand",
      "where": "The courts",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Five thousand dollars is Arizona's small claims ceiling now, heard without lawyers and without appeal; the justice courts' ordinary civil bench goes to ten thousand."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "A Contractor Took Your Deposit and Disappeared. What Can You Actually Do in Arizona?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/contractor-took-deposit-and-disappeared",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Arizona gives you a real ladder, and most of it does not need a lawyer: a written demand, a complaint to the Registrar of Contractors, the Residential Contractors' Recovery Fund, and the courts."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "A Contractor Without a License Wants to Sue Me. Can They?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/contractor-without-a-license-sue-me",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "For payment on work that required a license they did not hold: no."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "How Long Do I Have to File a Complaint With the Arizona Registrar?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/how-long-to-file-a-registrar-complaint",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Two years from the act or omission: the day the bad work happened or the day something owed was not done, not the day you discovered it."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "Does a Complaint to the Registrar Get My Money Back?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/does-a-registrar-complaint-get-money-back",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Not by itself."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "What Is Arizona's Residential Contractors' Recovery Fund?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/what-is-the-recovery-fund",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A fund Arizona keeps to pay real losses to owner occupants when a licensed residential contractor's work went wrong."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "When Does a Handyman Need a License in Arizona?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/when-does-a-handyman-need-a-license",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "At one thousand dollars, labor and materials together, or the moment the job needs a building permit, whatever the amount."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "What Has to Be in a Residential Contractor Contract in Arizona?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/what-must-a-contractor-contract-contain",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Over one thousand dollars, the contract goes on paper, by law, and the statute lists what the paper must carry."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "Can I Cancel a Contract I Signed at My Door in Arizona?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/can-i-cancel-a-door-to-door-contract",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "A sale made at your own door comes with three business days to walk away, and the seller owes you written notice of that right."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "Can a Subcontractor Put a Lien on My House in Arizona?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/can-a-subcontractor-lien-my-house",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Not on your owner-occupied home, if they never signed a written contract with you."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "How Much Can I Sue For in Arizona's Small Claims Court?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/how-much-is-arizona-small-claims",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Five thousand dollars is Arizona's small claims ceiling, heard without lawyers and without appeal, and the justice courts' ordinary civil bench above it goes to ten thousand."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Question",
      "title": "How Do I Check if an Arizona Contractor Is Licensed?",
      "path": "/learn/questions/how-do-i-check-a-contractor-license",
      "where": "Real Questions",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Ask Arizona's own record."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Official Step",
      "title": "A Complaint to the Registrar of Contractors",
      "path": "/learn/official-steps/a-complaint-to-the-registrar",
      "where": "After bad work",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "The Registrar of Contractors is the agency that licenses contractors in Arizona, and it accepts complaints about the work of the contractors it licenses."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Official Step",
      "title": "Reading the Public License Record",
      "path": "/learn/official-steps/reading-the-public-license-record",
      "where": "Checking first",
      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "dek": "Arizona publishes the licensing record of contractors."
    }
  ]
}