State Specific Question About: GEORGIA (GA)

Would the Attorney General be of any assistance?

Donna what are you doing? You have a lot of THEY TOLD ME's in this post. Where's your contract?? Your doing a reno right? you should have written contract of what's to be done and supplies along with guarantee of work that is acceptable.

Your first step is to call the contractor and advise him you want corrections made to work and bill for materials. You need to be clear he needs to correct the work or your going to the DA in your county.

You can dispute the charges-- but what are u using for a contract? It will be he said she said. The CC company isn't going to do squat!!!!!

Every thing in writing. every detail including materials and who is purchasing. I always pay for materials because they will over estimate a job and then cash in the unused supplies.

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My attorney used to subscribe to Legal Zoom. It was basically a referral service. He would subscribe for $x/year, would need y cases per month to break even, and people who were looking for an attorney in his general geography would get directed to him. He eventually dropped his subscription because the leads were pretty low-quality; most of them were looking for pro-bono representation.

So-- as far as Legal Zoom is concerned-- the only hits you're going to get are attorneys who pay for their names to come up. Getting an attorney is very much a through-the-grapevine kind of thing. Sort of like if A needs a divorce, her friends B, C, and D will each recommend the attorney who handled their divorces. Or if A needs criminal defense, then B, C, and D will each talk about their results with their own attorneys. That kind of thing. But for people who don't have friends B, C, and D with relevant information pertinent to a particular field--- that's where attorney-finding websites becomes helpful, especially if you're in an area with few options. But at the same time, the only requirement is usually "pay $x/year for your name to come up", so there's no guarantee that the attorney lead will be high-quality, either.