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    Are They Whom They Say They Are ... or Something Else?: True Blue Series No. 4
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    Are They Whom They Say They Are ... or Something Else?: True Blue Series No. 4

    By RB Roberts

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    About this ebook

    Well? ... ... Are they? Are the contractors who are competing for work in, on, or around your home whom they say they are ... ... or something else? These days, it is a lot more difficult to distinguish between allies and predators for your special home maintenance and improvement projects. Those looking to work on your property are a lot more sophisticated than they used to be. This is largely due to their access to a lot more information, a lot quicker than ever before (Thanks to advancements in technology). Our special emphasis here, of course, is for you to not become so absorbed with the speed at which you can obtain services by just the click of a few keys on your laptop, desktop, your tablet, and even your iPhone. More people are being scandalized by means of electronic access than at any other time in history. When you check the stats in this regard, you will see that there is no decrease in sight. The major reason is that with the increased speed for accessing services comes a comparable increase in consumers letting down our guards and allowing ourselves to become deluded into thinking that, on the overall, in spite of the risks for being personally scammed via cyberspace, that the risks are minimal by comparison to the benefits.
    Risks Maximized, Not Minimized
    Yet, in this moment, please, allow me to submit the fact that instead of risks being 'minimized,' they are 'maximized.' They are maximized because this is unfortunately the nature of the electronic culture we have evolved into. We have been involuntarily conditioned towards doing less practical thinking for ourselves synonymous to transferring much of our energies in that regard to the 'conveniences' we perceive in allowing modern technology to do most of that for us. In general, we allow ourselves to rely more and more on doing 'less thinking.' This spills over into many of the practical issues of our lives. Foremost, for our purposes at hand, this spills over into how we make the most crucial decisions about the sort of people we are going to trust, select, and hire for our special home maintenance and improvement projects.
    False Convinience via Online Contractor Referral Agents
    Far too many of us are now turning to the 'convenience' of online contractor referral services and to online contractors who introduce their 'worthiness' and 'competence' without documented or provable evidence to that effect. Here, in 'Are They Whom They Say They Are ... ... or Something Else?,' I will prove to you the stark danger entailed in on online contractor referral operations and online introduced 'contractors' without first doing a though service validation or reputation check to ascertain if whether or not they are whom they are said to be or whom they say they are. The beginning and the end of your home project is not 'online,' instead, it is on your property. That is the point at which any contractor candidate who wants to work for you should be and at which he/she should submit to you crucial information for you to thoroughly validate. This includes validation of residential references along other information through conferring with relative private and government entities before coming to any decision. These are the safest, wisest, most reliable ways to prove or disprove all claims made about a contractor's skills, integrity, and competence. Your home is 'real space.' Therefore, it is strongly recommended that any deals made be done with positively validated people in 'real space' rather than with situationally un-validated contacts in virtual space which is often the prime hub for 'virtual contractors,' and legally questionable ' contractor referral agencies.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRB Roberts
    Release dateApr 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370631773
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    Are They Whom They Say They Are ... or Something Else?: True Blue Series No. 4
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    RB Roberts

    RB Roberts has written several handy ebooklets of special interest to US residents who are owners, lessees, and renters of private homes. Until December 2022, he was senior volunteer home projects consultant with HGRBS, the former nonprofit which disseminated crucial anti-home-fraud information to raise awareness among private home decision makers in our country. All said, what the author continually brings to the table in honor of private home decision makers such as you is another reliable resource you can use for anti-fraud information. The revelations are cumulatively garnered from the author's years of hands-on experience, including many thousands of hours gleaning, evaluating, researching, discovering and rediscovering how and why so many US residents are victims while only a select few are not. Subsequently, information and guidance offered through these exclusive works, past and present, are for adopting real solutions and safeguards against being defrauded by unworthy home service contractors. Finally, you are always welcome to connect with RB to show your support, offer any relative comments, questions, and suggestions via Smashwords or the author’s new website: Resident Relations – Home Project Defense

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