BEFORE YOU SIGN A ROOFING CONTRACT
Never buy a roof without asking yourself the ten-year question.
Will the company that installs your roof still be standing behind it in ten years?
Every roofing company that shows up on your driveway can hand you a long warranty and a confident sales pitch. Paper promises are easy to write. What is much harder to fake is a track record — a real, checkable history of a company staying licensed, staying in business, and staying reachable when a homeowner calls back years later.
That is the ten-year question, and it belongs at the top of every roofing conversation you have: not just “what will this cost,” but “who will still be here?”
Why we’re asking you to check.
We pulled Florida’s own public licensing records (DBPR) for every Certified Roofing Contractor tied to a Brevard County address over the last ten years. The result: 41 Brevard roofing companies that were licensed and doing business here have since gone Null and Void, been Revoked, or been Suspended — gone, in other words, from the list of contractors legally allowed to operate.
Every one of those companies once stood in front of a homeowner and made the same promises every roofer makes. Some of them installed hundreds of roofs. A workmanship guarantee is only as good as the company behind it — and when that company is gone, so is whoever was supposed to honor it. The shingle or metal manufacturer’s material warranty may still be valid, but there is no longer anyone required to show up and fix their own labor.
This is not a scare tactic. It is public record, and it is exactly the kind of thing a ten-second search should be able to answer before you sign anything.
What happens when the company isn’t there anymore.
These are documented Florida cases, not rumors — each one covered by local news or verifiable through the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) and the Better Business Bureau.
Homeowners paid a Palm Bay-area roofing company in full for storm-damage roofs that were never installed. The BBB revoked its accreditation and the owner filed for bankruptcy. (WFTV, June 2026)
A Melbourne windows-and-doors company took payment in full from multiple homeowners, then voluntarily dissolved. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office opened a fraud investigation. (FOX 35 Orlando, June 2026)
A homeowner paid a roofing company in full for a completed roof. The company never paid its material supplier, and the lien landed on her home anyway. (WFTV, Oct 2022)
A national platform’s own roofing installation brand racked up 143 BBB complaints in three years before the BBB itself could no longer locate the business. It has since formally withdrawn from Florida.
Time is the one credential you can’t buy.
Hippo Roofing is a third-generation roofing family, serving Brevard County homeowners since 2008. That is not a slogan — it is a license number (CCC1331992) you can look up right now, an A+ BBB Accredited rating, and more than 10,000 completed roofs behind it.
We are not asking you to take our word for any of this. We are asking you to hold every roofer — including us — to the same ten-year question: a decade from now, will this company still be here to make it right?
What Brevard homeowners say.
These are live reviews from real Hippo Roofing customers — not screenshots, not hand-picked quotes.
Frequently asked questions
Search the company’s name at myfloridalicense.com, Florida’s official contractor license lookup. It shows whether the license is Current/Active, and if not, the status (Null and Void, Revoked, or Suspended) and the date it lapsed. It’s free and takes less than a minute.
The shingle or metal manufacturer’s material warranty is usually tied to the product and can still be valid. What’s gone is the workmanship warranty — the promise that the company who installed it will come back and fix their own labor. With no company left, there is no one required to honor that half of the promise.
Hippo’s Roof Care Membership was built for exactly this situation — scheduled seasonal service and a fast response on leaks, no matter who originally installed your roof. Book a free inspection to find out where your roof actually stands today.
Hippo Roofing has served Brevard County homeowners since 2008, under Florida Certified Roofing Contractor license CCC1331992, which you can verify yourself at myfloridalicense.com.