Essential questions homeowners should ask before hiring a contractor to avoid surprises, protect their investment and keep projects on time and on budget.

Across home renovations and commercial builds, you are far more likely to be asked for money before work begins than you were a few years ago. Contractors are wrestling with volatile material prices, ...

For those ready to bring their home improvement ideas to life, hiring a general contractor is an eventual inevitability. Fittingly, you can think of a general contractor as, well, a general. By ...

As a former claims handler and fraud investigator, Jason Metz has worked on a multitude of complex and multifaceted claims. The insurance industry can be seemingly opaque, and Jason enjoys breaking ...

A page on the Nevada Contractor Board’s website lists unlicensed contractors who the board says are repeat offenders in scamming homeowners. A head shot is included. The board says these bad actors ...