Brief spoken advice (YouTube short) on avoiding contractor fraud in Detroit. The speaker gives three main recommendations: install a camera system and control access, pay with traceable credit cards or PayPal/American Express for chargeback recourse, and verify contractors' prior work and licensing (reporting unlicensed contractors to LARA).
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Here's the top three things to do to get contractors in Detroit to not rip you off. Camera system so you know when they're coming and going. You tell them that your house is being recorded. They have to call you to get in and out of the property so you can arm and disarm it. The second thing is use a credit card to pay them. And I typically use PayPal or use an American Express card. Because if they don't do the work or if they steal it, you have recourse where you can get the money back. The third thing that I'm going to recommend is to just verify the previous work history. Light and licensing. If you have their license on file, you have a little bit more ability to kind of like get them in trouble a little bit. If they have. If you have their license, you can actually report them to. I think it's the LARA system. Yeah, it's Laura. So you have a little bit of ability to report them to Laura. And when they give you the license, they typically don't steal after that. The unlicensed contractors, it's super easy. They take your money, they disappear, and you're done. Yeah.