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Ghost Contractors: Home service contractors who show up for work, accept your money, then suddenly disappear without having started or completed the home project.
The
phrase ‘Ghost Contractors’ is undoubtedly vernacular outside the
norm of discussion about preventative home fraud. Yet in a very real
mystical sense, there is such phenomena as ghost
contractors. In this guide, we will consider two ‘true home
fraud’ stories to clearly dissect exactly what these are and how we
can expose their seeming invisibility-visibility.
It is only when we are able to see
what is normally unseen by
many unsuspecting residents that we can avoid such aberrations.
Foremost, we can define what ghost
contractors within the context of this very special
homeowner’s guide. Then we will detail exposing them for what they
are and subsequently spare ourselves the plight of being victimized
by them.
Prime
Example Of “Ghost Contractors”
Earlier
in August 2023, there was a report released out of Bell County,
Texas. It was an expose’ of a handyman who drummed up clients using
an app on a widely known social network. Although it is based in the
US, its reach is international. This being the case, it goes without
saying that it is very probably in all the states if not still
expanding domestically. We can infer that this handyman had latitude
to create his app in any state where the mega social network is
located, and to travel to any of these at any time to make a personal
appearance at your home.
Sightings
in Temple, Texas
The
mysterious handyman reportedly materialized in the flesh to many
private home decision makers in Temple, Texas. Apparently, in keeping
with the story, residents used his app because he advertised it from
the sub-demographic area of the social network which happened to
service, as mentioned, Temple, Texas. This is probably the leading
reason the people of that vicinity used his app: it was local. But he
had a peculiar modus operandi [m.o.], or ploy: in part, he used the
app as bait for unsuspecting private home decision makers who needed
work on their property. He relied on their gullibility to believe he
was trustworthy without their first doing a service validation or
deep reputation check on his competence and reliability. Most
importantly, it may serve well to note that there were multiple
residents he scandalized over an unspecified period of time. No way
he could have visited all his victims in one or two days.
Essentially, he created an unerasable trail of a number of local
police reports. By inference, it does not seem that any of these
unfortunate people bothered to at least put forth this miminal effort
to inquire. Intuitively, had they done so, it is highly plausible
they will have avoided doing business with him.
KINDLE ...... in an instant
