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BBB Warns Springtime Brings Home Improvement Scams
With warm weather approaching, Better Business Bureau is warning homeowners to be on the lookout for home improvement scams. This is the time of year when less-than-reputable or unqualified contractors breeze into town promising a variety of services at cut-rate prices. They may show up at your door, advertise in local papers or hand-deliver fliers. Complaints to the BBB concern a wide range of problems, including high-pressure sales tactics, confusion over contract terms, poor workmanship, over-charging and, in some cases, home foreclosures. “It’s not your lucky day when a contractor shows up on your doorstep offering a too-good-to-be-true deal on a project. The salesperson may claim he has materials left over from a recent job at your neighbor’s house or the ‘house down the street.’ This is a common ploy of fly-by-night contractors who are based out-of-state and use their pick-up trucks as their place of business,” said James E. Baumhart, president/CEO of the BBB of Chicago and Northern Illinois. Complaints against home improvement/home repair contractors are among the most common consumer complaints received by the Better Business Bureau. And there is little wonder, considering how lucrative the business is. Americans spent over $200 billion in 2005 on home remodeling/repair projects, according to the National Association of Home Builders. “There are thousands of reputable contractors who will deliver quality work, on time and within budget. http://www.extranews.net/news.php?nid=1676 |
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