Contractor Crackdown Clinic - Save the Date August 27 - Free Legal Help
Every hurricane brings along with it a surge of scammers, including home repair contractors, including some fly-by-night operators who specifically travel to Gulf Coast, delivering promises of rebuilding to vulnerable homeowners, then pocketing insurance settlements, savings accounts or whatever else they can swindle. Some contractors demand large, up-front payments, and then flee; others offer up shoddy work along with threats of enforcing contracts that have outrageous, practically impossible-to-interpret terms. Reigning in these rogue contractors can be as easy as knowing what steps to take before hiring a home repair contractor.
EVENT INFO
Thursday, AUGUST 27, CRYSTAL BEACH CHURCH OF CHRIST, ON BOLIVAR PENINSULA, HIGHWAY 87 AT ALMA, 6:30 P.M. TO 8:30 P.M.
JOIN LONE STAR LEGAL AID TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DEVIOUS HOME REPAIR CONTRACTORS AND THE STEPS TO TAKE SO YOU CAN AVOID BECOMING THe NEXT victim.
ABOUT LONE STAR LEGAL AID
Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) is a non-profit law firm that provides free civil legal assistance to individuals and families who have immediate legal needs but cannot afford an attorney. Lone Star Legal Aid has uncovered countless repeat home repair conmen, a list of repeat offenders in the post-Ike aftermath, including notoriously fraudulent contractors with sophisticated, out-of-state operations who are already under allegations or suits from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.
Prior to Ike, Lone Star Legal Aid closed 10,000 hurricane cases resulting from Rita and Katrina. Today, we have opened thousands of cases and reached more than 60,000 people through traveling thousands of miles to help people in need in the aftermath of Ike. In some cases, we were at the FEMA disaster recovery centers giving advice to those impacted by Ike. In others, we walked door to door, or in some cases, tent to tent, to distribute helpful information translated into English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. We are still holding outreach in all the coastal communities and have prevailed in dozens of home repair contractor cases in 2009.
With 13 offices scattered from Angleton to Texarkana, LSLA offers advice and representation in matters related to education and individual rights, spousal and child abuse matters, food stamp and public benefit appeals, employment matters, civil rights, fair housing and tenant issues (including eviction defense), income maintenance, consumer protection against scams, foreclosure and homeownership legal issues and legal matters resulting from disasters. For more information, visit www.lonestarlegal.org.
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