Question #1 – Do you own a home?
Question #2 – Have you ever bought a home in a new area? In other words, have you ever moved across the country to a new place where you have no idea who might provide the best service in a particular category?
Having bought homes numerous times in new places, I can say that Angie’s List is a great starting point. It paid for itself about 10 times over when we had to replace our furnace last October. We got bids from Angie’s List’s top three heating/cooling repair and installation listings. The lowest bidder happened to also be tops out of about 30 listings on the List. The company was outstanding; they fixed an existing circulation problem the other contractors had overlooked, and still came in $600 under the next lowest bid.
For those of us new to a community or with no thorough knowledge of home repair businesses, Angie’s List is better then just blindfolding yourself and throwing a dart at the Yellow Pages – which is what we would have been limited to if we had purchased our new furnace without Angie’s List.
By the way, I’m a construction professional so I have some knowledge of building systems. Even so, going through the Yellow Pages for residential type services, making the calls, and asking the questions you need to ask to sort out the good and bad is incredibly time consuming. I’ll gladly pay Angie’s List to narrow the field for me. With $20 cash back from an Angie’s List coupon on Coupon Cactus, it makes even more sense – and cents!
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