by Chris Willis, KGW Staff
kgw.com
Posted on April 28, 2014 at 6:38 PM
Updated yesterday at 8:22 PM
PORTLAND-- The State of Oregon is cracking down on unlicensed contractors.
This is the time of year when home-improvement projects get started and state investigators say there are more unlicensed contractors ripping people off than they can keep up with.
If you hire an unlicensed contractor to do some work on your home and something goes wrong, often you are simply out of luck, with no recourse. Scammers, thieves and shady contractors are going door to door looking for easy money.
So how big of a problem are unlicensed contractors?
Oh its a huge problem, we run across it every day, said Tim Lenihan, an investigator with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board.
Lenihan said these scammers have been at it for weeks.
Read this article:
Home remodel season brings contractor scams
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