Gta Restoration

happ

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Anyone have any experience with one of these restoration companies you see vans around the city that say "restoration" "emergency response". They come over do some vacuum drying then a few days later they recommend wall tear down or some other big job. Then when you say no they send an inflated bill for the vacuuming double or triple the casual estimate. Then they harass for payment. Can they affect your credit rating if you don't pay?
 
Most of these companies are associated with the insurance companies, effecting repairs after fires, water damage from plumbing failures and the other myriad of disasters that can strike a home or business owner. If you had gone through your insurance, the companies oks the repairs and foots the bill. The home/business owner can push for further work, if what has been costed out hasn't covered all damage that they say was done.

You sound like you hired them yourself. I don't know the extent of the damage, so I don't know what was agreed upon. From the sounds of it you hired them to do a general clean-up and dry the affected areas. After this was done, the dame can be spotted, but again, I have not seen what the issue is and what was agreed upon.

Any company will harass someone who doesn't pay their bill. They can also put a lien on your house, even for a paltry sum, but I don't believe small companies can affect your credit rating, but they can send this unpaid bill to a collections agency, selling this debt to them and they will harass you more.