Bob:
Give me your personal experience in getting \”ripped Off.\” Not someone else\’s story. I want numbers and facts. Otherwise your comment was useless toward solving anything.
Come on now. Let\’s not lump all contractors together. Of course there are certain unscrupulous individuals waiting to take advantage of a storm. A lot of those types are probably not legitimate contractors but professional con men.
My father-in-law owns an auto body shop and when he gets slow he finds himself hoping someone has an accident; not so he can rip them off, just so he can get some business to pay the bills.
If there were no contractors, you\’d be fixing your own roof. Just be careful about who you hire.
Problem is… when a cat does hit an area, even honest contractors are forced to increase their prices. They have to in order to cover the cost of materials and labor.
Excellent point. Material costs go up EVERYWHERE when the demand goes up to fix storm damage. We saw increases in PA because so much was being used in Louisiana.
Bob the article mentioned specifically that a lot of UNLICENSED contractors came to Florida after the storms. Florida is one of the states that require licensing of their contractors and last I checked they had a 70% failure rate for the test. The one\’s operating legally will do what it takes to keep their license in good standing. There business people too Bob who only want to make customers happy. Are you aware that 90% of a contractors business comes from referrals? Why would any of them want to screw that up. As far as prices are concerned after Katrina we in the US experienced not only the perfect storm but the fact that we had to rebuild our country while sending huge amounts of supplies to Iraq to rebuild that country pushed prices up everywhere NOT just Florida (see Ned\’s comment about PA…I know I\’m from PA and represent only contractors…they where whining too!).
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Bob:
Give me your personal experience in getting \”ripped Off.\” Not someone else\’s story. I want numbers and facts. Otherwise your comment was useless toward solving anything.
Wayne
I bet their dying for a storm, SO THEY CAN RIP OFF THE PUBLIC AGAIN
Come on now. Let\’s not lump all contractors together. Of course there are certain unscrupulous individuals waiting to take advantage of a storm. A lot of those types are probably not legitimate contractors but professional con men.
My father-in-law owns an auto body shop and when he gets slow he finds himself hoping someone has an accident; not so he can rip them off, just so he can get some business to pay the bills.
If there were no contractors, you\’d be fixing your own roof. Just be careful about who you hire.
Problem is… when a cat does hit an area, even honest contractors are forced to increase their prices. They have to in order to cover the cost of materials and labor.
Excellent point. Material costs go up EVERYWHERE when the demand goes up to fix storm damage. We saw increases in PA because so much was being used in Louisiana.
Bob the article mentioned specifically that a lot of UNLICENSED contractors came to Florida after the storms. Florida is one of the states that require licensing of their contractors and last I checked they had a 70% failure rate for the test. The one\’s operating legally will do what it takes to keep their license in good standing. There business people too Bob who only want to make customers happy. Are you aware that 90% of a contractors business comes from referrals? Why would any of them want to screw that up. As far as prices are concerned after Katrina we in the US experienced not only the perfect storm but the fact that we had to rebuild our country while sending huge amounts of supplies to Iraq to rebuild that country pushed prices up everywhere NOT just Florida (see Ned\’s comment about PA…I know I\’m from PA and represent only contractors…they where whining too!).