What are Popular Home Repair Scams?

http://live.pirillo.com - The last time I changed our furnace filters, I sliced my finger open. I'm not a handyman by any stretch, but I do attempt to take care of things around my house. There are times, though, when you just have to call in someone else to fix something. How can you be sure you're not getting ripped off? Blog post: http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/06/10/what-are-popular-home-repair-scams/

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[Hypsous]

Excellent public service. I will be posting soon about Home Electrical work Scams...

Specifically electricians recommending that the entire Ckt Breaker box must be changed in order to fix an "Open Circuit"!!!! "If you do not there is a danger for fire, and so on..."

Or, A/C repairmen recommending changing the entire A/C in cases where only recharging the system with freon was necessary...

Kosmas

Kosmas

[CrewRite]

He's no Mike Holmes, HeHe.

Throw some weeping tile at him.

[bubbzontario29]

SHUT UP YOU IDIOT YOU DONT KNOW SHIT

[NeilJillett1996]

I know he does like.. profesional testing of beta's.. and that kinda stuff..

[zezioen]

This is his living he has no job

[ishikawa92]

i think he also advertises things for people in his videos

[ArchTymeWizard]

He does many special guest spots on tech shows and appears at many technology cons.

[somewahl]

his website pretty much is his living. He also does gnome dex.

[themobsadvocate]

what does this guy do for a living?.. i mean outside of his website??

[userxx]

Anyone know where I can get that screen saver for Windows?