I’m not a consumer rights advocate, but I do get pissed off when I see crap like the letter that showed up in my mailbox last week from a local roofing company. (Click to enlarge, but don't spend a lot of time reading it.) 
You can tell it is important from the fake holes on the sides of the paper. 
I’m not sure what this “handwritten” asterisk is supposed to be highlighting so I guess I’ll just re-read the whole letter again. 
The DEFECTIVE ROOF NOTICE in large letters with “Unknown” Status really caught my eye along with the Suggested Action. 
My suggested action? Quit trying to scare people into a roof inspection where your “Certified Roofing Specialist” will be sure not to find class action lawsuit defective shingles, but rather he will find something that needs “Immediate Attention” or else your home will implode or suffer the devices of Satan.
What gets me is that they are charging you $179 bucks for a roofing inspection so that they can turn around and sell you a repair. Oh wait… for a short time period they are reducing the price down to $49. They will only have inspections in my neighborhood for the next two months… makes me think that if I do get my roof repaired, will the company not be in the area in two months in case something goes wrong?
(I hear this on news programs all the time, so please allow me a moment to say it.)
Shame on you, Feazel Roofing!
Here are my demands of Feazel Roofing:
1. Make your 17 point inspections free to all homeowners.
2. If you find Class Action Lawsuit type shingles, tack on your exorbitant $179 charge and bill it back to the lawyers.
3. Apologize to all the people you sent those awful letters to.
My advice:
Offer free inspections.
Quit sending out “scare tactic” letters.
Don’t be a prick and I won’t have to be an asshole.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Feazel Roofing can kiss my asphalt
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I’m glad I didn’t get one of those letters, but I guess Feazel just operates in good neighborhoods like yours, Doug. Not ghetto neighborhoods like mine. If they piss off people in my area, they'd get whacked.
Do you even have a roof?
There was one, but I think it may have been stolen, along with my lawn, garage, and mailbox.
Having a letter signed by a learning-disabled person who prints his name with a crayon certainly cinches the deal for me.
By the way, that asterisk looks exactly like Kurt Vonnegut's illustration of an asshole in Breakfast of Champions.
You must admit this would make a nice surprise for that "special" neighbor everyone has...
This is what happens to people when they break up with my sister.
Not you, Doug, Mike Feazel. He has gone from dating my (very attractive) big sister and driving a boxster to signing his name in crayon, as noted by another commenter. He dated my sister for about a year, but his drug habit got a little more important to him than she was. We called him Feazelweasel. Creative, right?
After a couple of years in the house rehabbing business here is my advice....
Go outside..
Look up at your roof.
do you see frayed or upturned shingles? do they look nice and neat or like they have been chewed up by your neighbors yip yip dog?
If they look like puppy chow then its time to replace them.
The second house we bought I was assured by the realtor that the roof was in mint condition. Only to be "learned" by someone who was very experienced in roofs how to look up at a roof and tell what condition it is in.
That is the main lesson I learned.
When you drive through your neighborhood look at all the roofs you will see what I mean.
No charge for the advice...now throw away the letter and quit obsessing about it!
I find it amazing that Feazel can determine whether the shingles placed on your roof match the manufacturer, make and batch number of the shingles associated in the "series of class action lawsuits" by simple inspection. I would think they would need to check the original packaging materials supplied with the shingles to confirm.
I would also like to see the list of class action lawsuits to which he referes. I doubt they exist. Moreover, the point of a class action lawsuit is to include EVERYONE in the suit. A "series of class actions" makes about as much sense as a "series of ubiquity".
In fact, should the fancy take you, you may want to write back to Feazel and refer him to Section 1345 of the Ohio Revised Code. This is the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act. A quick read will indicate an apparent violation of several of the sections.
I hate contractors who use fear to try to force people into things they don't need.
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