FORT MYERS
Many of you will spend Monday cleaning up and calling contractors to help you repair the damage from Sunday’s severe weather. But do you know what legitimate contractors can and can’t do when they help you after a storm?
It’s going to take days, even weeks, for people to pick up the pieces, but some of them won’t be able to do it on their own and will need to hire a contractor. The unfortunate reality during times of crisis is that only some contractors are trustworthy, while others wait for bad things to happen so they can take advantage of homeowners who need help.
So, there are a few things you can do to avoid hiring phony contractors.
A lot of people in Charlotte County’s Placida community, for instance, will need their roof fixed, fast. And, so far in Southwest Florida, WINK News has seen many people handing out pamphlets and business cards claiming to e insurance adjusters and contractors. Each one promises to get your home back in order quickly.
And, for Edward Murray, whose home was flipped upside down by an EF2 tornado, he’d like for the cleanup to be quick. While he knows there’s a long road ahead of him, Murray isn’t letting any he doesn’t know help him clean up.
He’s already had to turn down a few people who stopped by. “You don’t know that they are legitimate until you do business with them. That’s the sad part. I wouldn’t do business with anyone that I…
