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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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      "slug": "contractor-took-deposit-and-disappeared",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "A Contractor Took Your Deposit and Disappeared. What Can You Actually Do in Arizona?",
      "answer": "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. Which rungs are open depends on whether the contractor was licensed, so check the license first and keep every document you have.",
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      "title": "A Contractor Without a License Wants to Sue Me. Can They?",
      "answer": "For payment on work that required a license they did not hold: no. Arizona's statute makes holding the required license, when the contract was signed and while the work was done, a condition of suing for that money. What that statute does not do is settle every other question between the two of you, so read the edges below.",
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      "slug": "how-long-to-file-a-registrar-complaint",
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      "title": "How Long Do I Have to File a Complaint With the Arizona Registrar?",
      "answer": "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. For a brand new home the statute starts the clock at close of escrow or actual occupancy, whichever comes first.",
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      "slug": "does-a-registrar-complaint-get-money-back",
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      "title": "Does a Complaint to the Registrar Get My Money Back?",
      "answer": "Not by itself. The Registrar investigates and disciplines licenses; it does not write checks. But the complaint is still the gateway, because the Recovery Fund's administrative route reads its outcome, and that fund pays real losses to qualifying owner occupants.",
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      "slug": "what-is-the-recovery-fund",
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      "title": "What Is Arizona's Residential Contractors' Recovery Fund?",
      "answer": "A fund Arizona keeps to pay real losses to owner occupants when a licensed residential contractor's work went wrong. It pays up to thirty thousand dollars per residence, two hundred thousand in total against any single license, and one of its two routes never touches a courtroom.",
      "lawyerFlag": true,
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    {
      "slug": "when-does-a-handyman-need-a-license",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "When Does a Handyman Need a License in Arizona?",
      "answer": "At one thousand dollars, labor and materials together, or the moment the job needs a building permit, whatever the amount. Below that line sits a narrow exemption for casual, minor work, and anyone advertising under it must say plainly that they are not a licensed contractor.",
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      "slug": "what-must-a-contractor-contract-contain",
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      "title": "What Has to Be in a Residential Contractor Contract in Arizona?",
      "answer": "Over one thousand dollars, the contract goes on paper, by law, and the statute lists what the paper must carry. Holding your document up to that list takes ten minutes and tells you exactly who you are dealing with before money moves.",
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      "slug": "can-i-cancel-a-door-to-door-contract",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "Can I Cancel a Contract I Signed at My Door in Arizona?",
      "answer": "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. If the roofer, the solar pitch, or the driveway crew came to you, the cancellation window is real law, not a courtesy.",
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    {
      "slug": "can-a-subcontractor-lien-my-house",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "Can a Subcontractor Put a Lien on My House in Arizona?",
      "answer": "Not on your owner-occupied home, if they never signed a written contract with you. Arizona reserves the mechanics lien against owner-occupied dwellings for the contractor the owner actually hired, which is a shield most homeowners have never heard they hold.",
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    {
      "slug": "how-much-is-arizona-small-claims",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "How Much Can I Sue For in Arizona's Small Claims Court?",
      "answer": "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. For contractor losses sized to a deposit, this is the courtroom built for you.",
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    {
      "slug": "how-do-i-check-a-contractor-license",
      "locale": "en",
      "title": "How Do I Check if an Arizona Contractor Is Licensed?",
      "answer": "Ask Arizona's own record. Verifiant checks it free, with no account and no sign-in, and shows the status the State publishes with the exact time it was read; the Registrar's own contractor search answers the same question at the source. Do it before money moves, and read the result yourself.",
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      "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
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