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FAQ's
(Frequently
Asked Questions)
How does
Atlanta Home Reports acquire their information on contractors
and how does a contractor get listed? Is there some sort
of fee involved?
Individual
contractors listed within their specific categories are first
brought to our attention by readers of local Online news
publications. Since 2001, readers of various home
improvement stories or columns have been emailing their
experiences to us, and we've been listening.
Once
a local contractor has been brought to our attention, they are
added to our internal database. Once a month, we do
research on each particular contractor in our database with the
Georgia Secretary of State's office, any emails we've received
since our previous search.
We
also periodically run our list of contractors through all
available County Court records and calendars.
If
everything checks out OK with the contractor, we contact the principal
of the company to see if they wish to be posted Online on our
Website. If they do, we have them sign a release and let
them know that if we receive any complaints about them from our
readers, we'll do our best to follow the matter with
both parties until it's either resolved amicably by both
parties, or we'll simply delete them from our program.
IMPORTANT!
At absolutely no point is the
contractor asked for any money what-so-ever, nor will we receive
money from any contractor.
How can
Atlanta Home Reports afford to run their program without getting
paid by advertisers?
Atlanta
Home Reports' is surprisingly very inexpensive to operate.
Our entire overhead is covered by those already in the Online
news media. Individuals volunteer their time to go through
the emails that have come in each month and it takes very little
effort to add those emails to our database.
Disputes
and decisions are all handled by someone at an editors or
publishers level.
Many
people aren't aware that the budget for the entire first year of
publishing USA Today newspaper was $0. All expenses were
piggybacked onto the operating costs of the roughly 100 sister
newspapers that were currently in operation by their common
owner.
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