Walk It Through: The Roofer At The Door
A hailstorm, a salesman on the porch, three business days to cancel, and a promise that was not true.
After a hailstorm, a salesman knocks and signs up a homeowner for a new roof on the porch.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One roof. Insurance claims for the hail, a contractor's license, and work already begun before cancellation are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Construction lienA contractor's or supplier's lien on the property it improved, which does not attach unless recorded no later than one hundred twenty days after the final furnishing of services or materials.
- Deceptive trade practiceA business misrepresenting goods or services, selling used goods as new, advertising with intent not to sell as advertised, faking price reductions, or billing for goods never ordered, among the acts the section lists.
- UnconscionableAn act or practice by a supplier in a consumer transaction so unfair that it violates the deceptive trade practices act. Whether it is unconscionable is a question of law for the court.
- ChargeA written charge under oath filed with the Equal Opportunity Commission within three hundred days after the practice.
- Home solicitation saleA personally solicited sale of consumer goods or services of twenty-five dollars or more, agreed to somewhere other than the seller's place of business, which the buyer may cancel until midnight of the third business day.