'Better Decisions, Better Results'

Central Showcase

Central Showcase is a virtual eBook shopping boutique for homeowners, and future homeowners for viewing entire collection of works by RB Roberts, author and consumer advocate for better financial and personal home project management in contractor-related home improvement interaction.

Central Showcase

Welcome To The Central Showcase

The central showcase is for visitors to view all the author's works in one area. These were moved from the homepage because it was presumed it gave the wrong impression to those who just were curious about what the Home Project Defense web presence is all about. Imagine just stopping by out of curiosity and being met with books! There's a consensus about visitors who're really not in the mood have books virtually 'shoved' in their faces on the homepage. A stark difference, of course, from those who visit this for the purposes getting something to read. Bottom line, the Central Showcase was set up for those interested in viewing the author's entire collection, then taking it from there. Enjoy!

The Mix Begins

These are separately ordered

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 work you need, that tradesperson suddenly disappears like an illegitimate ghost. These unpleasant events occurs nationwide. We just don't hear enough about them. This is one of the reasons some are taken by surprise. Yet, we can also factor in the equation defective contractor hiring due to homeowners not doing enough preventative research on contractors they hire. Don't let them get the drop on you. Learn more about 'ghost contractors,' and how you can detect and avoid them. Let them have the nightmares, instead.

$0.99

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. It usual begins with knowing quite a bit more about the contracting entity, or contractor you hire before asking them to stop by. There are techniques you can use which are worthy of being added to those you have for making safer and wiser hiring decisions. Yet, what would really make these work is how and when you use them.

$2.99

Homeowners Real Estate Glossary - Personal Edition

Your homeowner’s real estate glossary entails an interesting assemblage of over 200 traditional and non-traditional [real estate related] definitions with a special slant towards home improvement and resident-contractor interrelations. Most importantly, although all terms in this special edition are clearly defined, consistent with legal tradition, there are some which reach a step farther to offer interesting explanations to expand on their significance to you as a homeowner. Plus, there are a few new, yet informal terms in relation to home improvement, and a tad bit about contractors. , In all , this personal real estate glossary presents terms which can and do also embrace some unexpected colloquial narratives.

$3.99

Defeating Home Improvement Fraud Series

There are presently three in the series. Separately ordered.

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

Like the bargain edition [Series III], this original offering is well sourced, uncovering several true life events for you to vicariously experience, and gain invaluable pointers on what might or might not be sound practice. Notably, Series II, and Series III editions of the Defeating Home Improvement Fraud series contain some of the same chapters as Series I, but there are some distinctions in terms of upgrades, renaming, and repositioning of text. Subsequently, either of theses, Series I, Series II, or Series III can influence identical impact on your abilities to learn as much as you can about prospective contractors before inviting them over for possibly doing your home improvement project.

$4.99

Defeating Home Improvement Fraud Begins with You

‘Defeating Home Improvement Fraud – Begins with You,’ is an engaging consumer self-defense personal guide against being defrauded by rogue men and women in the field of home improvement. Emphasis is on developing practical strategies for outsmarting malicious types. To this effect, this personal guide offers critical, revealing tips on how you can successfully navigate the field. In this way, you can be better enabled to distinguish between those who sincerely care about assisting you, and others whose sole concern is for assisting themselves at your expense. No doubt, you'd rather do business with those who really care. Incredible. And this is an exceptionally awesome pathway for you to make it happen.

$4.99

Defeating Home Improvement Fraud Begins with You

This is also an offshoot of Series I which was formerly titled 'Defeating Home Fraud in America Begins with You.' The fact is that there were some items of content in the original which required more emphasis , and were worth republishing. Subsequently, the author created a smorgasbord, or a mutated version of his original. There are also less pages, For these two reasons, it's bargain-priced. This one's the 'odd ball' of the family. However, as with the others, it's content remains unwavering, and the author believes that at some points in this is edition , it delves a bit deeper to emphasize how homeowners can be better prepared for making the most informed contractor hiring choices. High stakes.

$2.99

Home Project Defense Series

There are presently four eBooks in the series. Separately ordered.

Home Project Defense - Are You Certain About Signing This Contract

This is the first installment in the 'Home Project Defense Series' featuring concise tutorials for US private home decision-makers to arrive at better contractor-related home improvement decisions. To these ends, different aspects of consumer awareness in relation to consumer-contractor arrangements are present in each book of the series. Subsequently, this special series shares revealing facts and productive ideas which can enhance your personal acumen for making the best hiring decisions, ever.

$0.99

Blinded by the License [Home Project Defense 2]

In today’s world [same as yesterday], there is excessive credence given to a contractor’s licensure, and too little regarding the fact that it has no bearing on her or his moral ethics or fair business practices. Although this personal home guide presents a negative value associated with an over-blown perception of licensed contractors, there is emphasis given to the positive, as well. The key is to completely annihilate the misconception that a licensed tradesperson is automatically exempt from consumer fraud.

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Permit Requirements [Home Project Defense 3]

In this revealing rendition, if you're a homeowner in the US, there are critical things you may want to know about permits. Among the most paramount is the risk of authorizing your home remodel in the absence permits being issued to the contractor you might select to do it. If you unknowingly consent to work for which the local building or zoning department requires permits, it can negatively impact the value of your home, and your insurance policy. I can be legally torn down or demolished.

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Contractors and Their Support Personnel+ [Home Project Defense 4]

No doubt an interesting title in relation to this this presentation, but it's perhaps far removed from what some might suggest. In fact, although general contractors, their core support personnel, and merchants [like suppliers] play huge roles in home improvement, it’s the homeowner who bears the brunt of the weight when things go wrong. This is especially true when the contractor selected skips off without paying the core support personnel, and project-related merchants [+]. It happens, but it can be avoided.

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Strategies against home improvement fraud

Homeowners True Blue Series

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

There are presently eight in the series. Separately ordered.

1 Powerlessness of Knowledge,

Knowledge of Powerlessness

Introducing the lead classic among eight transcripts of the Homeowners True Blue 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's 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's 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. No doubt, there should be plenty inspiration for avoiding mistakes made by some property owners who aren't serious enough about devoting quality time for conferring with relevant sources for avoiding home improvement fraud. Much of the data you gather is at your fingertips. Just a matter of knowing when and where to look.

$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. They're not always that easily located, but you'll find it well worth the effort when you do. Methods shown can be immediately applied 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. Let's be realistic, they're all not rogue. Yet, in the mix of good, bad, and mediocre, there are those who are willfully treacherous. But when you meet them, you don't really know them for who and what they really are. However, they're 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.

$1.99

5 Snake 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 But that can be dreadfully erroneous. It's a business engagement. Not social. But they took the gamble. They let down their defenses. They lost. This personal home guide offers a few tips on having the odds shift in your favor.

$1.99

6 Lecture on Applied Appliances Product 1

You might occasionally connect with appliance professionals for troubleshooting items which require repair or replacement. But, there are a few critical facts, ideas, and tips which you just might find invaluable. There's a matter which necessitates concern: how can you be certain the home service company or technician you select is honorable? Just being an appliance tech isn't enough. In this brief anti-fraud personal guide, we investigate the pros and cons of appliance technicians.

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7 When Thinking, Saying, and Doing Coincide

Believably you're familiar with the widely published suggestions for avoiding corrupt contractors. Notably, many others are likewise aware. Even so, they 're victimized. Why? A major reason is that although they knew how best to avoid it, they buckled. However, that was 'them,' not 'you.' This personal guide can help you succeed where others failed. There are underlying reasons for relenting, and these are shared with you towards the good of firmly sustaining and defending the sanctity of your home..

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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 may've personally experienced or witnessed the pitfalls many have fallen into through being baited by bad contractors. Others will continue taking the bait. But what about you? Perhaps, you'll be too busy figuring out newer ways to continually avoid those traps.

$1.99

Series 1 thru 8

Homeowners True Blue 8-Pack

This offering of the eight impactful homeowners personal guides for learning effective strategies against home improvement fraud, are now all available in a single eBook. So, instead of having to close one in order to access the other, since all are combined into one highly convenient space, you have only to command your device to jump to the other, instantly, without closing a thing. And just as readily, you can traverse throughout from one to the other, referencing and cross-referencing each one at will. Way to go.

$7.32

Kindle

Practical Choices

Other Works Which Support Making Practical Choices.

Each of the authors listed here offer exceptional published works which can also be instrumental in arriving at significant decisions to further support enjoyment of the home environment. After all, it's how well you manage your household obligations, and the money you invest improving your property which ultimately determine the level of contentment in life.

The Decision You Make

[Good or Bad]

Impacts Your Entire Household

In a time in our lives when incidences of home improvement fraud are at their highest levels ever in the 21st Century, homeowners need to be informed well enough to deny it at the gate.

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