{"id":24,"date":"2017-10-18T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:20:14","slug":"documented-workers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/documented-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Documented Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the largest retailers using subcontractors on Home Improvement Projects know there is a loophole in the system that opens up the use of undocumented labor.\u00a0 A Contractor is responsible for the job.\u00a0 A Contractor is not responsible for a Subcontractor&#8217;s Business practices.\u00a0 When a Subcontractor uses illegal labor, many Contractors know but still use them.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, the cost on the bid does not assure only Documented Workers will be on your property.\u00a0 Documented Workers <strong>do cost more<\/strong> than Undocumented Workers, <strong>but you could take the highest bid and still have Undocumented Workers<\/strong>, or take the lowest bid and have documented workers.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to <strong>trust the company you choose<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yet a three bid system is flawed.\u00a0 Everyone knows how to sell around this or that issue.\u00a0 You may get three great contractors, three unscrupulous contractors, or a combination.\u00a0 My advice is <strong>get as many bids as you need to find the RIGHT contractor<\/strong>.\u00a0 This can be as few as one or as many as it takes.\u00a0 Remember, this is your home and if a project costs more tomorrow if you don&#8217;t buy today, this is just a sales closing tactic.<\/p>\n<p>It is also very easy to hide the types of workers that will be on your property.\u00a0 There are good and bad sales people out there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you may not be able to identify the differences or they may not fully understand their companies.\u00a0 As a Homeowner, you may not care if a worker has the legal right to work or not; in the end, you just need to know if they are so YOU can make that choice.\u00a0 If they are not Documented and you are okay with that, ask for a lower price.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: 800;\">Please Note:\u00a0 Blueprint Remodeling is not condoning the use of undocumented workers and will not use them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the largest retailers using subcontractors on Home Improvement Projects know there is a loophole in the system that opens up the use of undocumented labor.\u00a0 A Contractor is responsible for the job.\u00a0 A Contractor is not responsible for a Subcontractor&#8217;s Business practices.\u00a0 When a Subcontractor uses illegal labor, many Contractors know but still use &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/documented-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Documented Workers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9ifrt-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueprintremodeling.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}