Basement Waterproofing Atlanta GA (basementwaterproofingatlantaga.com) is a referral and advertising service for homeowners in Atlanta, GA, a city of about 529,000 on a ridge south of the Chattahoochee River, and in five nearby places across Fulton & DeKalb Counties. Below: where the site's money comes from, what it does, and what it never does.
The fee: a contractor may pay the site a flat advertising fee for a fixed span of time. A free trial is under way now, so nothing is being charged. The fee is set beforehand and is identical whether a hundred requests go out or none. It is never charged per lead, per request, per appointment or per job, never figured as a percentage of a contract, and never linked to whether anyone signs anything. The fee buys advertising, nothing more: the site arranges nothing for the contractor or for you.
No homeowner pays the site, and no homeowner gets cash, gifts, discounts or other rewards from it. Nobody is rewarded for telling others about it, either.
The site is no contractor, plumber, electrician or broker, and no contractor's agent. It carries no residential or general contractor license and no plumbing license. It says nothing about any contractor's licenses; the homeowner looks those up on the Secretary of State's online license search and asks the local government.
It does not sell, offer, solicit, schedule, perform, coordinate, arrange, inspect, quote, bid on, price, negotiate, finance or guarantee any work, and it advertises no plumbing work. No contract is presented or collected by it, it holds no deposits, and it makes no agreement with any homeowner.
Its whole part is this: the estimate form passes your request to be contacted to one independent contractor, and the site steps out. The contractor gets in touch, arranges anything that comes next and stands behind its own estimate and work. The site names no contractor and never recommends or vouches for one.
Before you sign, check the contractor's license status yourself, collect its business license, insurance certificates and a few recent local references, and insist on a detailed written estimate and a contract signed by both of you. Sump tie-ins, backwater valves and work on sewer pipes are for a Georgia-licensed plumber holding a plumbing permit.
Insurance questions, sewer-backup reports, permits and claims with any government lie outside the site. It has no affiliation with the City of Atlanta, DeKalb County, Fulton County, any other city or the State of Georgia, and no tie to any similarly named website. This disclosure is governed by Georgia law.