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Home Improvement Contract Tips

Many a soul has hired a contractor to dospecify the exact brand, size and part number
repairs or improvements on a home only to[if possible] in your contract. Doing so
find something is fishy. Here are some tipsaccomplishes two things. First, it puts the
to  avoid  problems.contractor on notice that you know how the
process works. Second, you can always resort
Home  Improvement  Contract  Tipsto legal action if you later find the correct
materials were not used. Since you have
Hiring a contractor to do work on your homeeverything in writing, the contractor has
is not always as easy as it sounds. Manylittle  defense.
people call themselves contractors, but
really are not. The first step to avoidingA second unethical tactic is the bait and
problems is to make sure you hire someoneswitch. In this process, the contractor gives
with who is actually licensed as ayou a bid price that can't possibly cover the
contractor. If you subsequently haveproject. You think you are getting a deal,
problems, you can contact the licensing boardbut the contractor starts coming to you after
to  raise  a  dispute.the project has started requesting more
money. The contractor refuses to continue
Most contractors are ethical, honest peoplework if you do not pony up. In this
and businesses. There are, however, otherssituation, the best defense is again to have
who are not. These individuals assume you doeverything in writing in the project
not really know what is involved in thecontract. Make sure to include an attorney's
construction process. This provides them withfee clause in it. If the contractor tries
an opening to make substantially more profit.this tactic, you should contact an attorney.
While you might think this means they willThe attorney will set the contractor
overbid the project, it does not. Moststraight. If the contract refuses to finish
contractors believe you will pick the lowestthe job, you will probably be told by the
price, so they rarely run up their estimate.attorney to hire a new contractor while he
There are, however, two other ways to boostsues the unethical one. Since an attorney's
profit.fee clause is included in the agreement, you
should end up paying no legal fees. This is
The first thing unethical contractors will donot the best situation, but it beats getting
is use low quality supplies. As with anythingscammed.
you buy, there is a high quality and lower
quality version. While you may want the highIn general, the best way to find a contractor
quality version, you may have a hard timeis to ask for referrals from trusted friends.
determining if you received it. TheNext, get everything in writing. With these
difference between high and low quality istwo steps, you should avoid any major
often how long something lasts, not how itproblems.
appears. The way to beat this problem is to



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