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05-19-2008, 06:47 AM
Once again the front page of Sunday's Tampa Tribune (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/19/na-homeowners-beware-in-picking-contractors/) was headlined the Storm of Problems homeowners have encountered entrusting themselves to approved, recommended and above all state licensed contractors to perform work outlined in the My Safe Florida Home Program.
Not only was the work in most cases substandard, shoddy & incomplete but in many instances it was priced higher then what could have been negotiated outside the program.
Hopefully the consumer has seen through the gimmick of "state licensing" in that it is in most cases a simply tool the state uses to favor a protected group of contractors who then get to control their competition and gouge the public.
This is just another glaring nail in the coffin that graphically depicts the failure of state licensing as a consumer protection tool, instead of protecting the consumer the state aided and abetted licensed contractors in crimes against the public, sad very sad testimonial to licensing.
Not only was the work in most cases substandard, shoddy & incomplete but in many instances it was priced higher then what could have been negotiated outside the program.
Hopefully the consumer has seen through the gimmick of "state licensing" in that it is in most cases a simply tool the state uses to favor a protected group of contractors who then get to control their competition and gouge the public.
This is just another glaring nail in the coffin that graphically depicts the failure of state licensing as a consumer protection tool, instead of protecting the consumer the state aided and abetted licensed contractors in crimes against the public, sad very sad testimonial to licensing.