Surety Bonds: It’s Not What You Think

On February 10, 2009 By

When it comes to home remodeling or renovating some part of your home, the first time a homeowner usually becomes familiar with the term “surety bond” is when problems with the contractor have come up.

It’s also a time when the homeowner may find [...]

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Mechanics Liens: An Often Abused Law

On February 10, 2009 By

Mechanics’ Lien, Preliminary Lien Notices, 20 day Notices…What does it all mean and why should you care? Well for one, it’s all the more to make YOU the homeowner responsible for an unscrupulous contractors’ lack of ethics, negligence and abusive tactics manipulating the lien laws and filing fraudulent liens.

Here’s [...]

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Home Improvement Videos

On January 26, 2009 By

Coming Soon – promise!

 

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The Right Way To Fire Your Remodeling Contractor

On January 22, 2009 By

So you’ve decided to remodel your home and after doing your due diligence by checking on the contractors’ license status, references and other background checks, you feel confident you’ve made the right choice and sign the contract. Work begins and from all accounts things are going well.

But then you begin to [...]

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California Consumers Corner

On January 22, 2009 By

California homeowners can find links in this section to the various pages on the Contractors State License Board. These links include both relevant updates as well as “important to know” when a consumer begins their search for a home remodeling or building contractor.

Checking your contractors license status is the first thing [...]

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Owner Builder: Saving Money Or Taking A Risk?

On January 22, 2009 By

Home remodeling has become one of the fastest growing segments within the building industry largely due to the last several years of low interest rates and property values soaring wildly into the stratosphere.

So for many folks it makes sense to stay put and maximize their newly found [...]

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Consumer Protection Laws: Some States Are Better Than Others

On June 7, 2008 By

This past week I had the opportunity to be on a morning show based out of New York – The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet – where contractor scams and avoiding hiring unethical contractors was the theme of one of their segments. They opened the segment with my story where they had filmed me [...]

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Question On Mechanics Liens

On May 7, 2008 By

Got an email regarding mechanics liens and unfortunately the email they provided me to respond was incorrect so I’ll answer it here. But first the question:

As part of my kitchen remodel project, I purchased maple kitchen cabinets from a kitchen & appliance store in Burlingame, CA two years ago. I had my contractor install [...]

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Electrical Repair Company Out To Rip off Homeowners

On January 14, 2008 By

The Contractors State License Board has brought to my attention a scam operation that is going on not only in California but other states as well.

It has to do with electrial service and repair companies who do extensive advertising in the yellow pages and print ads and is run by some unsavory characters looking [...]

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Contractor Doesn’t Pay His Sub and theb Homeowner Pays Twice

On December 7, 2007 By

Here’s a scenario that is common practice amongst unethical
contractors: The homeowner pays the General Contractor who in turn is
supposed to pay the sub contractors for work performed. But the
contractor decides to pocket all the money and later down the road, the
homeowner gets hit with a mechanics lien against their property from
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