Absentee homeowners are easy prey for unscrupulous individuals posing as handymen. In the Commonwealth of Pa. Home Improvement Contractors are required by the Office of the Attorney General to register and show proof of insurance. This includes handymen performing home improvements and making over $5000.00 a year.
I stated that absentee homeowners are easy prey for unscrupulous individuals posing as handymen and here’s the proof. As you can see in these two pictures, these repairs are far from professional work. Yet this absentee homeowner paid for these repairs.
Before you hire someone to perform repairs on your property ask for their HIC number and proof of insurance. If you can’t come up to inspect the work yourself ask a friend to take a look for you, or at least have the individual who performed the work email you photos of the completed job.
This homeowner won’t be getting his money back. It would cost him more in time lost from work to hassle with suing in Magistrate Court and even if he wins nothing says he can collect.
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