We at The Contractor's Side.com
(http://www.thecontractorsside.com)are here to inform all of you out there who maybe contractors, married to a contractor, or know a contractor that we're here to provide a safe haven for the contractor. What we're setting out to do on our website is to provide a place for you guys to tell your side of the story. Where if you guys
were to put in a complaint about a lousy rat of a client all of the bureaucratic processes take too long and you just end up loosing more money then before. Our website is designed for you guys to tell what happened on a certain job and possibly inform other contractors to beware of these certain rats. Also you could put certain tales of revenge that you've taken or heard of on there. Those stories sure make the job seem worth while. Check it out. See what you think.
We are the contractors' answer to Angie's List
www.thecontractorsside.com
Here is our Press Release from April 26,2007:
Press Releases for April 26, 2007
Little Guys in Building Trade Have Chance to Speak Out
This is the place for anyone, big or little, to go to register a grievance against anyone big or little in the building trade. It's a resource to check out anybody big or little associated within the construction industry.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2007 -- This press release announces the April 2, 2007, launch of thecontractorsside.com, in the construction trades.
Since there is nowhere for a tradesman, whether contractor or anyone else, to complain about unsuitable clients or outcomes,thecontractorsside.com was created by Lee W. Dodson to provide a forum and a resource for trade.
While the site is directed at the state of California, it is suitable for any area in the United States. The site was created because the building trades have nowhere to go to check out clients, suppliers, other contractors. The Contractor's State Licensing Board falls under the purview of State Consumer Affairs. The courts hold a natural bias against the building trades. News services have traditionally aligned against builders, and nobody else cares about the problems faced by building tradespeople.
On this site, a trades person may, at a reasonable cost, give his or her account of problems encountered on a job, can easily and inexpensively check a client or a business to see if other tradespeople had a problem in their business dealings. The cost is $10, for which the user may post one complaint and may check one client, or the user may post two complaints, or the user may log on to check two clients.
This beats the heck out of the expense of going through the process of a credit or background check on a potential client and waiting for the process to clear.
Further, this site puts the name of the subject out of there for any user to see, and it can give advice on how to deal with a problem before it arises. The site can automatically generate either an e-mail or postcard notification-to the subject of the complaint, and it is designed to maintain the anonymity of the posting entity if so desired.
This site is the next logical step that can be taken to protect the thousands of honest contractors, tradespeople, or workers by exposing the presumed cheats. Let's face it, the consumer, whether honest or not, holds all the cards in the business. It's time the playing field levels out.
It has been said that sunshine is the best antiseptic. This person-to-person site is mounted to shed light on the little guy side of the construction business equation.
Finally, there's a sympathetic ear for someone who's been stiffed.
While thecontractorsside.com is not a dispute resolution service, it is a venue for getting the word out about iffy clients, suppliers, even legal entities who may be predisposed to taking the client's side.
If required, Mr. Dodson can write a piece on the website. He has written professionally for Calabasas Lifestyle Magazine, Tulane Drama Review, and his work appears often in response to essays in OpinionJournal.com, a web arm of the Wall Street Journal, worksanddays.com, privatepapers.com, websites of Victor Davis Hanson, to various blogs and articles in Townhall.com.
He has completed the novel, This Never Happened,a modern western mystery, and is is finishing "Pastiche," a novel about a "man who knew too much" who has selective amnesia.
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