What's a house without a roof? If you're roof isn't doing its one and only basic job anymore you are probably looking quite desperately for a roofer. The advantages of finding a roofer on Angie's List and briefly how the list works to post reviews.
What's a house without a roof? Just ask any home owner how important a good roofing job is during a rain storm that
requires buckets in every room to catch the leaks. Let's face it- we may take the roof for granted but at the end
of the stormy day we appreciate having a roof over our heads to keep us sheltered. If you're roof isn't doing its
one and only basic job anymore you are probably looking quite desperately for a roofer.
The savvy consumer of course has done the basic research and knows the difference between a quality shingle and a
cheap one and everyone of course is familiar with checking the contractor board in their state to make sure the
roofing contractor is licensed and bonded and complaint free. Still just knowing the roofer doesn't have any
official complaints against the company isn't really as comforting as it used to be. And unless you live in small
town,
USA you probably don't know everyone in town three generations back. No, we live in a much more mobile and
more impersonal age and the only way to get the true skinny on a business is from word of mouth experiences of
other consumers.
Back in 1994 Angie's List was created from this very need. Consumers need to know which contractors they can trust
and which ones they will never see again as they wade through their living room after a storm. So for those who are
not in the know Angie's List is a consumer driven and written web site that reviews businesses including roofing
contractors.
This is not a site where contractors can advertise themselves or post rave reviews about themselves either. The
reviews posted on Angie's List are real reviews by members who pay a nominal fee to join and purview reviews. Since
all of the reviews are filtered through a staff member the reviews are vetted for honesty and poor reviews can be
detrimental.
Contractors know the importance of word of mouth reputation and unlike the good old days where the bad ones could
work their way down the block before anyone knew how shoddy the workmanship was, today's contractors must contend
with the lightening speed of the internet to speak volumes about them.
So when you ask yourself what's a house without a roof, you might also ask yourself what a contractor without a
good list backing it up?
