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Looking For New Jersey
House Painters?
5 Worst Places
to Look for Painting Contractors
 If you've ever tried finding quality New Jersey house painters for your project, you know that is a difficult task.
But why make it even harder by looking in all the wrong places?
We made a list of 5 sources we do NOT recommend, with our reasoning behind that.
So let's start the countdown - (rated from so-so - to bad - to the worst):
#5 - The Home Depot
Ever since the Home Depot started offering house painting services, we've been hearing the same complaints from homeowners over and over again: the lack of quality control and poor communication.
Unfortunately, that's what usually happens when subcontractors are involved in the process - homeowners feel confused and out of control because they have to use middlemen every time they have a question or concern, and that often results in misunderstanding, delays and compromised quality.
#4 - Service Magic
Service Magic and similar sites promise to match homeowners to pre-screened New Jersey house painters.
There are a couple of things worth noting, however.
First, not all of those sites really screen painting contractors before including them in their database, and some will include almost anyone (after all, contractors pay them on a per lead basis, so the more contractors they have in their database, the more money they get). So make sure you read their screening policy before sumbitting a request.
Those sites that do pre-screen contractors, will usually just check whether a house painter is insured and registered with the state, which still doesn't address the quality or reliability issue.
And second, remember that, depending on your location, you may not get any local matches at all, simply because at the time,there may not be any house painting contractors in the database who serve that particular area. So if you don't get any responsewithin 24 hours, you should probably start looking for local house painters somewhere else.
#3 - Bandit signs
"2-level house power washed for $100!!!", "1 room painted for $150!!!" - You've probably seen such bandit signs nailed to trees and posts on busy crossroads.
Many homeowners who beleived the claims and hired those contractors, were later disappointed/disgusted to realize that the whole thing was just a gimmick to get in the door and start upselling. Hardly anything is included in the price that was initially quoted and in order to have the job completed, homeowners end up paying "extra" for things that should come as a package.
Stay away from painting contractors who use such misleadingtactics!
#2 - Newspaper ads
You are not likely to find a successful house painting contractor advertising in a newspaper.
Who you can find here, however, are moonlighters and unscrupulous fly-by-night house painters who are desperately trying to score a job or two. Also, you can often see them use misleading gimmicks in their ads, so if your goal is to find reliable New Jersey house painters who will do a quality job, this is not the best place to look.
#1 - Craigslist.com
With very few exceptions, free sites like these usually attract unregistered and uninsured "handymen" painters who are willing to take on any work that will come their way.
Most of the time, you can forget about top quality, reliability, customer service or guarantee.
But the biggest reason why we rated this as the worst place for finding contractors is because on sites like these, you have a higher chance of running into a house painter who will take a down payment and then disappears with your money. So keep this in mind and don't let you guard down if you still decide to hire someone you found on a free classifieds site. And don't say we didn't warn ya!
So where do you go then to find trustworthy New Jersey house painters???
We thought you'd never ask!
Click here to learn about the top 7 places we recommend for finding the best New Jersey house painters for your project.
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