Looking for a trustworthy contractor?

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If you are looking for a reliable contractor, you don’t want to simply trust online reviews.  There are now companies out there who you can pay to write positive reviews for businesses (scary!) and we all know that family and friends can spike reviews, so be cautious trusting these.

Furthermore, when I looked into Yelp, I found that negative reviews can be hidden by Yelp, and if you don’t look closely someone who has had complaints can look completely clean. Yelp also has had lawsuits by customers who complain Yelp puts pressure on them to donate to keep good ratings.  I have lost faith in Yelp, too.

I also don’t have much faith in the BBB and have written about that over the years as well.

And I tried Angie’s list and was highly disappointed.  When I hired  a major window company to install new windows and they committed fraud against me, I naturally gave them a negative review.  But guess what?  It never showed up.  Another expert I hired through Angie’s list came at a high price and tried to double the bill after the work was completed because I suspect he got away with it often. He didn’t realize I knew our state laws and knew such practices were illegal.  He quickly retreated and that ended my experiences with Angie’s List.

I’ve even tried the recommendations of good friends only to find they were not aware that they had been taken.

So what can you do to aid yourself in finding a good contractor?

I highly suggest typing in the contractor’s name that you are interested in, and adding the words “complaints”.

I did that this morning weeding through a list of roofing contractors and one of the best rated showed up as being under federal investigation for fraud by the FBI.  That’s no small investigation and immediately removed that candidate from my list.  Had I not done that, this contractor looked really good!

Contractors can also pay companies to remove negative information that comes up in search engines as well, so remember that.  The more homework you do on an contractor, the better your odds will be.  I try to turn over every stone possible when seeking someone to hire because there are no guarantees.

Finding trustworthy people today to do service is truly challenging–even for me!  It’s very easy to promise to do a good job, but have things change quickly without the homeowner ever being the wiser.

My Thoughts on Baby Wilson’s Parents

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When I watch Taniasha Perkins plead for her baby, I see a lot of things that raise my eyebrows. While there is no doubt that Taniasha is feeling stress, the question is does she know more than she is saying?

I believe so.

While she acts like she is sobbing, there are very few tears streaming down her face considering her displayed intensity, which is highly notable to me.  She doesn’t have puffy eyes indicating that she’s been crying heavily either.  She also gasps for air, but without a flood of tears, this makes no sense. And she does it repeatedly.

She says, “My family loves my child.”  If you notice she doesn’t say “I love my boy…Delano”.  She doesn’t call him by name, which shows distancing.

I’m troubled how she whines that she and the baby’s father worked really hard to provide for their child. The baby was only one month old! And she’s complaining about what she sacrificed for the child?? She tells us she went and got a job for the baby two days ago. This seems to be a big problem, if you ask me, caring for this child. It’s something that needs to be looked at closely.

It’s interesting to me she wants the public to “tell the truth where her son is”.  How can the public do that?  Why would she think of “telling the truth” if her baby was abducted?  It makes absolutely no sense, but I suspect she knows someone needs to tell the truth here. That is the truth!

When I listened to baby Delano’s dad’s 911 call, his story is absolutely absurd to me.  He calls in the most calm voice ever which makes absolutely no sense given what he says happened. He has zero urgency in his voice, and first says that he has been robbed and pistol whipped, but not “hurt like that”.  Only second does he say someone took his daughter, and then corrects himself to say son.  Oops. In order of importance, I think we all know what comes first and it isn’t being robbed.

Second, if someone is going to abduct a child, I find it very odd that they would take any time to rob someone.  If they want a baby, they want to get away fast.  It’s very unlikely they will take the time to rob someone.  And according to Willie, he wants us to believe they changed motives….they “intended to rob him” but oops, took the kid instead!  None of it makes sense…

I find it flabbergasting that he tells us, “I’m laying in the middle of the street.”  He isn’t crying out in pain or anything, but he can’t get up out of the street? And remember he said that he isn’t “hurt like that”. 

Do you see the inconsistencies? They are numerous and abundant.

I love how he calls the abductors and violent offenders a “male” and the other a “lady”  — such dignity for someone who just abducted his child!!

Seriously?

Then he says, “I just woke up from being unconscious.”  Wow! But he’s not hurt “like that” — remember!

But he seems totally clear about everything considering he just got knocked out.

He told Fox 59 that the pair intended to rob him of his cell phone and wallet but took the baby instead, “That’s when he hit me knocked me down. I got the baby in my arms. That’s when I knew they were gonna do more because she didn’t do nothing because the man is constantly yelling at me telling me to empty my pockets, grabbing at my pants. All I could do is give him what I had. I didn’t wanna harm the baby.”

So now when did they pistol whip him and knock him unconscious?

It’s nonsense, through and through.

In one video on Fox 59, Taniasha is on camera but not speaking the press and her stress completely dissipates. She acts completely relaxed. It’s like she isn’t “on for the camera” anymore.  If you truly believed your baby was abducted, your stress would not dissipate that quickly.

I believe both of these parents aren’t telling us what they know is the truth.

Taniasha Perkins: Baby Delano Wilson’s Mom

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Taniasha Perkins pleas for her baby’s return.

What do you see when you watch Taniasha speak? Do you believe her?

Tonya Whitney Boehs Tells Her Story

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When I listen to Tonya, I don’t believe a word she says. She gives off the classic hallmarks of someone who is not being honest.

When Tonya talks, you can see she is thinking about what to say instead of speaking from the heart.  She says, “For the sake of security I’ve never even considered taking them up into the hospital like we did, but we were suggested by nurses.”

“I’ve never even considered it…”  but we did!  And we only did it because of nurses suggestions.

Who talks like that?  Anyone you know?

Of course not. This is gibberish nonsense.

Then she does a 180 and says she did it for advertising….totally flip-flopping her story!

“I take them places with me for advertisement purposes because obviously they speak for themselves,” said Boehs.

What most fibbers do is try one version and if that doesn’t work, they try another. It’s like throwing chewed bubble gum up to the ceiling–eventually something will stick!!

Creepy.

Tonya’s entire explanation makes no sense at all and I suspect she is someone who is known to say anything at any given moment.

I suspect most people will be suspicious after watching Tonya.

I have real concern that her intentions here were truly sinister.