Advance Solar & Spa

Advance Solar & Spa carries the strongest license file of any company in this batch. Florida DBPR shows four Current and Active licenses, all expiring August 31, 2028: Certified Solar Contractor CVC056664, qualified by Brian Jeffery Goldberg and licensed since February 5, 2001, Certified Electrical Contractor EC13009791, qualified by Daniel Mark Goldberg since April 30, 2020, plus certified pool and certified air conditioning licenses. Solar and electrical under one roof, held by the two people BBB lists as vice president and president, with a quarter century of continuous solar licensure behind the older one. No DBPR discipline, attorney general action, or FTC matter naming the company turned up in this research.

Understand what you are hiring, though. This is a diversified Fort Myers dealer-contractor that sells solar, pool heating, battery backup, hot tubs, and, per BBB's category list, HVAC and water heaters, with a showroom on Crystal Drive. The site claims family ownership since 1983 with over 40 years of experience and 50,000 plus installations, while BBB dates the business start to January 1, 1986. Three years of daylight between those dates, and the install count spans every product line, not just rooftop solar. The company also says it runs an in-house team of experts, a claim worth writing into the contract. BBB rates it A+, accredited, with 3 complaints in the last 3 years and 1 closed in the last 12 months, a low count for a business this old with this many product lines.

The gap that keeps this at B is the warranty. The warranties page hosts manufacturer product documents from Apricus, Grundfos, Pentair, and others, with no company workmanship duration stated anywhere fetched. A third-party review site claims a 12 year workmanship warranty, unconfirmed by anything first-party. For a company with 40 years of history, the absence of a published workmanship term is an odd omission, and it means your contract language has to do the work the website does not. Ask for the workmanship term in writing, and ask which of the four licenses your specific job runs under.