Are They Whom They Say They Are ...Or Something Else?! Series No. 5 [PHDMUSA]

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.

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.

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."