Contractors License Required?

[Kristin Hopkins]

Hey there- real estate investor here from Virginia. I have an LLC that I use to put properties under contract, close on them, sub-contract work needed, and resell. All in the LLC name. The county I live in advised I'm required to have a business license but the type of real estate business I'm doing "requires a Contractors License" so they can't issue me the business license because I don't have my contractor's license even though they are the ones requiring the business license to try to collect the ‘Return of Business Tangible Personal Property"

A. Do I even need a business license on file? 
B. I’ve tried telling them 1,478,819 times that I subcontract the work out to licensed contractors/trades depending on work needed- they still claim this is unacceptable- to oversee the work, I need my contractors license. Where is the loophole? What am I missing?