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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
I've used Craigslist and it normally works out fairly well, you can screen people on their emails and their phone calls when you talk with them. Plus you can look up arrest records online if you want to.
I had a guy want money up front to paint my house, needed $500 for paint. I said, "Oh that's great! I have $200 in Home Depot gift cards and I can use them to go grab it today. When can you start?" One guy sulked on the phone saying he wasn't sure what his schedule was and that he'd have to call me back. Instantly I knew he was trying to scam.
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Heh. I wouldn't let somebody without a shingle paint my house. I've fixed dozens of craigslist contractor jobs. A craigslist painter is going to slap a board up over your wood rot instead of taking the time to cut it out and stop the problem. A craigslist contractor isn't trying to build a business because he's always going to have unlimited idiots on craigslist. I'm fixing a lady's house this week who paid $1500 to a craigslist guy a couple years back. She gets to spend about $7k instead of $3k like normal houses of her size because she hired an asshole who was more worried about getting paid than fixing her house the right way the first time.