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Home Project Defense is dedicated to the domestic values of US private home decision makers preventing home improvement fraud anywhere on their property.

Welcome to Our Website

Foremost, this is the official website for Home Project Defense. That is the contrite version of 'Home Project Defense by RB.' This is nonetheless the official site for essential free data and works by RB Roberts, a consumer advocate and writer against home improvement fraud in the US.

This site also features revealing free tips dedicated to the domestic values of private home decision makers avoiding related fraud through making more informed choices. What is more important is that you are well informed. Books offered on this site are optional, meaning, you can benefit from the free value also found in this web environment. But there are three areas which offer eBooks on this site which also provide on-the-spot tutorials which you can use immediately without making a purchase:

Discovery Technique

6 Keys to Home Defense

Preventative Discovery Exercises

That said, if you are interest also in the anti-home improvement fraud eBooks below, or anywhere else on this site, you are naturally welcome to browse. Great spot.

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Intriguing Selections Personal Home Defense Guides

If you are a US private home decision-maker who occasionally requires professional contractors especially trained, skilled, and licensed to engage in highly significant work on your property, these can peak your interests.

Defeating Home Fraud in America Begins with You [Bargain Edition]

This revealing home guide presents vital tips on how you can enhance your abilities to make even better hiring choices. You will notice that there is also a 'blue edition' beside it with the same titile. It contains more information. Yet either can prove to be very effective personal home guides to refining the quality of those critical hiring choices you must make.

$2.99

Defeating Home Fraud in America Begins with You [Series I, Revised Edition]

Like the bargain edition, this original offering is well sourced, uncovering several true life events for you to vicariously experience, and gain invaluable pointers on what may not be sound practice, as well as on what can be. Also, there are useful ideas offered which you may not have considered. All works to sharpen your instincts towards hiring the best.

$4.99

Defeating Home Improvement Fraud Begins with You

This is the latest edition of 'Defeating Home Fraud in America,' with a title change. The title was changed to 'Defeating Home Improvement Fraud Begins with You,' for a few reasons, one of which is that the phrase 'home fraud' was a bit much in some circles. Also, this edition is different in that it broaches more of the business aspect for keeping your home safe.

$4.99

How to Validate Contractor Competence Before You Decide .........

As head of household, you, apparently know quite a bit about what can be done in, on, or around your premises. And when there is something which requires the attention of a contracting entity, or a professional tradesperson, you want to be certain whoever shows up is worth it. This special guide can be just what you need for smoothly attaining that kind of edge.

$2.99

Ghost Contractors - Nightmares in Resident-Contractor Relations

Insightful tips on how not to be caught in the presence of a contractor who appears to you as a credible pro, but after gaining your confidence, and a sizeable advance to do the job, that tradesperson suddenly disappears like an illegitimate ghost. Learn more about 'ghost contractors,' and how you can detect and avoid them. Let them have the nightmares, instead.

$0.99

Homeowners Real Estate Glossary - Traditional and Related Entries

Do you sometimes hear a discussion between realtors, but have challenges 'deciphering' the lingo? Or have you ever wondered about the reason a real estate term you hear sounds familiar but somehow you forgot what it means? No worry. There are over 200 entries both formal, and informal. Great descriptions also including resident-contractor relations.

$3.99

Home Project Defense - Are You Certain About Signing This Contract

Signing a home improvement contract or any other contract with a contractor is one thing. The tradesperson offering it to you is always quite another. There are some things you might want to know before signing. This personal guide lays out the pro's and con's on the credibility of the one asking you to sign in relation to the level of consumer-friendliness contained in it.

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Blinded by the License [Home Project Defense Series - Second Edition]

Revealing emphases on how homeowners can be deceived when a tradesperson shows up for work with a license. There is usually more than meets the eye. This aggressive exposé can help increase practical awareness about a contractor's licensure. This applies to both the honorable and dishonorable among them. Tips for distinguishing one from the other.

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Strategies against home improvement fraud

Homeowners True Blue Series

Classic transcriptions from the author's wild pre-2020 podcasts.

This series is a compilation of 8 of author's personal best virtual podcasts out of over 50 he recorded previous to 2020. The common theme supports the rights and privileges of US private home decision makers against home improvement fraud. Although somewhat dated, they contain vital techniques which can be immediately used to discover who contractors are in advance of asking them to visit the property. These methods can lead to revealing facts about the very contractors they might think of hiring. Most importantly, what serious property owners uncover about these tradespersons with shock, or flatter them. They will know then, which contractor is best suited to connect with, and to invite over to negotiate terms of agreement

More about these 'classics'

These were edited from the original scripts and set aside for eventually publishing as eBooks. The common theme of each message supports US private home decision-makers arriving at the safest and best possible choices of home improvement contractors. Included are stark vicarious experiences of real victims, what they went though, and of how these grievous episodes could have been avoid. Revealing tips.

Powerlessness of Knowledge,

Knowledge of Powerlessness

Introducing the lead classic among eight transcripts of this series which poses significant challenges for private home decision-makers coming to terms with whether they really have the power to hire the most reliable home service contractors. This category of contractor includes the gamut of individuals who solicit property owners with services ranging from cleaning, painting, repairing, remodeling, installing, ancillary building, gardening, or other significant work on the premises. Further, there is emphasis on distinguishing between the potential you have for making the best contractor hiring decisions, and the power you use to make it happen. Succinctly, in the real world of home improvement, what matters most is not what you know, but what you do with what you know.

$1.99

2 Strategic Communications, Strategic Results

What is continually stressed in this edition is how phenomenal it can be when you connect with true sources for the data you need to make the best contractor hiring decisions. Plenty inspiration for avoiding mistakes made by some property owners who are not serious enough about devoting quality time for conferring with relevant sources for avoiding home improvement fraud.

$1.99

3 Successful Contract-Related Home Projects

As you are aware, contract-related projects are home projects you authorize with the support of tradespeople working in home improvement. Here, there is quite a bit of emphasis on cultivating great business engagements with the most reliable individuals in the contracting profession. Some true accounts are given about residents who failed to harness that special kind of relationship.

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4 Are They Who They Say The Are or Something Else

Special attention is given to the fact that property owners are daily sought for new business by contractors of all sorts. Yet, in the mix of good, bad, and mediocre, there are those who are willfully treacherous. However, they are well shrouded as 'angels.' They can gain your trust easily, if you let them. You need to know who they really are. Strip away the veil. Tips on how this is achieved.

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5 Snakes Eyes and a Scratch-Off Ticket or Born to Lose

The focus is largely on combatting consumer self-induced compulsion for arriving at whimsical hiring decisions. In most reported incidents of home improvement fraud, the victims confess to treating the seriousness of the hiring event as a social engagement .They took the gamble. They lost. Engaging tips on having the odds shift in your favor.

$1.99

6 Lecture on Applied Appliances

You might occasionally connect with appliance professionals for troubleshooting items which require repair or replacement. However there is a matter which necessitates concern: how can you be certain the home service company or technician you select is honorable? This brief anti-home-fraud personal guide investigates the pros and cons of appliance technicians.

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7 When Thinking, Saying, and Doing Coincide

Believably you are familiar with the widely published suggestions for avoiding corrupt contractors. Notably, many others are likewise aware. Even so, they are victimized. Why? A major reason is that although they knew how best to avoid it, and vowed to do so, but they buckled. However, that was 'them,' not 'you.' This personal guide can help you succeed where others failed.

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8 Natural Disasters Are Bad Enough

This engaging personal home guide focuses significantly on assisting you in your efforts to make the best possible choices with respect to the contract-related assistance you require in the aftermath of a natural disaster in your area. You will see the pitfalls many fall into and why. You will also see, perhaps, even more than ever before, how you can successfully avoid them.

$1.99

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