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Silver Gaia

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10. Angi is useless now.
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 12:42 PM
Jul 2021

It recommended an electrician to me who had a 5-star rating on there, but when I looked him up on the Better Business Bureau they had a red flag on him because of a lawsuit against him for shoddy work. Great job, Angi!

Home Advisor sucks now, too, and is basically the same thing as Angi, just in a different format. I used Thumbtack to find a pool guy who turned out to be a moron with no idea how to properly clean an older gunite pool. I'm going to have to drain it to repair what he damaged.

Angi also recommended another electrician we sent packing because he refused to wear a mask and was an anti-vaxxer. WTF? How can he stay in a business where he goes into people's homes with an attitude like that?

I've noticed that Yelp at least allows them to list under "amenities" their policies regarding covid safety, like mask-wearing and social distancing, and I appreciate that a lot. There is also just more useful information in general available there.

So, did you ever come up with anything better than Yelp? I'm having a helluva time finding an electrician!

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