Flipping homes in Oregon and contractor licenses

[Jami Krietzman]

If there are any  real estate investors in Oregon I would love your input please.  We are thinking about flipping some homes here in Oregon and have been trying to find out whether we can just hire the people we need to do the work or do we need a contractor's license. 

I have looked a little into it and saw that in order to be a contractor for residential properties, you need to purchase a $20,000 surety bond.  We really do not want to do that for just a few houses.

I have looked through the Oregon Secretary of State pages and cannot find any information about this.

Like I mentioned above, I would appreciate any information to help clarify this for us or even allowing us to pick your brains a bit.

Thank you so much in advance!

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