{"id":90,"date":"2017-10-25T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bestcheck.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-07-22T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:57:22","slug":"contractorbackgroundchecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bestcheck.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/contractorbackgroundchecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get Caught In Contractor Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcheck.com\/contractorbackground.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.bestcheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/contractor.png?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"Contractor Background Checks\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.bestcheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/contractor.png?w=250 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.bestcheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/contractor.png?resize=150%2C150 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contractor Background Checks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Given all the active hurricanes this year, there has been a lot of damage to property and of course everyone wants repairs to be made as soon as possible.&nbsp; Unfortunately there are scammers that want to cash in on people&#8217;s misfortune and therefor property owners will come in contact with many pop-up businesses that offer to fix everything, work with their insurance, etc.&nbsp; Many of these companies are not legitimate businesses and will file claims against your insurance for work they didn&#8217;t even do, and when a property owner files a claim for actual work done, the insurance won&#8217;t pay out.&nbsp; It is imperative that you only do business with legitimate companies and contractors that will not scam property owners out of their insurance money.&nbsp; Running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcheck.com\/contractorbackground.html\">contractor background checks<\/a> can assist with this matter.&nbsp; Criminal Records run on individuals and business license checks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcheck.com\/businesscredit.html\">business credit checks<\/a> run on contractor businesses can assist property owners in making informed decisions before allowing repairs to be made on their properties.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/bestcheck.com\">AAA Credit Screening Services<\/a> has been in business since 1996 and can run these reports and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the active hurricanes this year, there has been a lot of damage to property and of course everyone wants repairs to be made as soon as possible.&nbsp; Unfortunately there are scammers that want to cash in on people&#8217;s misfortune and therefor property owners will come in contact with many pop-up businesses that offer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bestcheck.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/contractorbackgroundchecks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Get Caught In Contractor Scams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[3,21,20,19,8,23,22],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background-checks","tag-background-checks","tag-business-credit-reports","tag-business-license-check","tag-contractor-background-checks","tag-criminal-records","tag-landlords","tag-property-managers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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