The advice other home sites can't publish

The big home-repair sites make their money from contractor lead-gen partners, home warranty affiliates, and advertising from the same companies they'd need to criticize to tell you the truth. That's a structural problem. We don't have that problem.

This is where we publish the consumer-advocate content: contractor vetting checklists that go deeper than “ask for references,” the specific home warranty companies to avoid (and why), the pricing red flags in a typical quote, and the questions that make scammy contractors leave you alone.

We name names where it matters. We cite our sources. And we don't take money from any company we'd tell you to skip — which is why home warranty affiliates will never appear on this site.