Adam Sand explains new door-to-door canvassing rules for roofers: knock only during set hours, carry proof of recent storm damage within two weeks, show ID, and provide itemized quotes on the spot. He expects these restrictions to spread nationwide.
This new door knocking law, there's only a couple things that are really key. One, you have to be knocking only within certain hours, which is not too bad. Second thing, you have to have proof that that house was hit by a storm on your person. So you have to have proof that, like, hey, there was a swath of hail that hit your house, and I think it's within a certain time period. It's basically saying you can only knock the door like two weeks after the storm. You can't bug people and say, hey, you got hit by a storm like a year and a half ago. Did you get your roof checked? Like, you can't do that. And you have to have proof of it on your person. You have to have physical identification says who you are on your person. And your quote has to have line items like, you can't just say you're working on contingencies. You have to provide an estimate for the work not working contingent upon the value of the claim so you can sign a contingency. You have to produce a quote right there. If that law gets through, legislation becomes case law, then other states tend to pick it up. It's gradually moving towards a world where door knocking is going to get more and more difficult from a legality perspective.
