Investing In Home Improvement Takes Into Account Responsible Personal Finance Management

Overview

'Powerlessness of Knowledge, Knowledge of Powerlessness' is a personal guide as it concerns homeowners, and similarly situated household heads in the US. This special message carefully deciphers why so many private home decision-makers are vulnerable to home improvement fraud, while an exclusive segment successfully averts it. Most importantly, it debunks the notion that what we know about avoiding home improvement fraud is in and of itself 'power' to do so. That isn't always the case, since even when there's apparent awareness of widely circulated preventative data for averting these improprieties by some malicious companies and individuals, many residents falter on enforcing what they know better not to do.

Subsequently despite that 'knowledge' relative to guarding against it, they fall victim. This is because they didn't implement that awareness. In short, what they knew was rendered useless. This is the crux of what's meant by the 'powerlessness' of knowledge. Despite what they knew, this potential for deflecting scandal wasn't used. And there's quite a bit discussion about how and why that happens, and how and why private home decision-makers may want to translate what's known into manifestations of motive force.

Special Note: The ‘Homeowners True Blue Series’ is a classic collection of eight salvaged transcripts from virtual podcasts the author produced prior to 2020. These were edited in recent times because of grammatic, spacing, punctuation, and structural errors, then re-published in print, and re-produced in audio. Most importantly, each rendition offers a historical perspective into how and why bad contractors were able to finagle private households.

CAVEAT: TODAY, we're revisited by the same rogue practices used by dishonest contracting entities and individuals.

Some are still at it. And they have prodigies. Finally, in this work, you'll vicariously experience home improvement tragedies of others, and hopefully be inspired to avoid the same mistakes.

©2017, 2023, 2024, 2025 RB Roberts (P)2025 RB Roberts

Investing In Home Improvement Takes Into Account Responsible Personal Finance Management

Overview

Do you occasionally hire home service contractors to deliver on special projects at your home? How have they performed? Whether perfectly or otherwise, if you're a homeowner in the US, or close to being one, this exclusively personal anti-fraud guide can enable you to sharply enhance your hiring acumen. Do it even better.

Most importantly, if you haven't experienced identity theft by an individual or company in the field of neighborhood home contracting, this brief consumer protection exposé can be helpful fortifying your defenses against being conned into this type of catastrophe. Stay sharp.

* This revealing self-help guide is also useful for new homeowners and for those who aspire to also own their own home one day.

Investing In Home Improvement Takes Into Account Responsible Personal Finance Management

Overview

Ghost Contractors are contractors who appear to you as credible pros, but after gaining your confidence, and a sizeable advance to do the work you need, they suddenly disappear without notice. In other words,  after you've disbursed funds to them in advance of doing your home project, some do a little work then stop showing up; others don't show up.  And that's the other definition for what being 'ghosted' entails.

So, this personal guide offers engaging insight for preventing home improvement fraud caused by malicious men and women operating on social networks and in-person, posing as home service contractors. Yet especially by means of virtual  facades they manage to swindle scores of app and social network users in our time. Don't let them get the drop on you. Learn more about 'ghost contractors,' working each conceivable social network, and about how you can detect and avoid them. Let them have the nightmares, instead.

Investing In Home Improvement Takes Into Account Responsible Personal Finance Management