The Buildproof team spent the last week in Golden, CO at the Service Magic corporate headquarters, tying up the loose ends of their strategic partnership with the company.
Buildproof and Service Magic have teamed up to connect homeowners & contractors and secure their project from start to finish. You can now sign up for Buildproof through Service Magic’s account reps! Make sure you ask about our limited time membership offer for contractors!
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Make sure to watch Alan Farber, CEO of Buildproof, and Aprille Hollis from the MCACC on 3tv News Saturday morning talking about the Buildproof Buddies program! The segment is set to air betwen 8:15-8:30am.
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LIMERICK - A Philadelphia man will stand trial on charges he allegedly stole nearly $30,000 from an elderly Royersford woman who hired him for a home remodeling project that was never completed.
James Harold Mager, 43, waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday before District Court Judge Walter F. Gadzicki Jr. on 12 counts of theft by deception in connection with incidents that occurred between March and December of 2007.
Mager, who operated JM Contracting, remains in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility without bail pending his next appearance in county court.
“She is a lovely, lovely woman who just was very trust
ing, which is unfortunately one of the things that puts this generation at risk, because it’s a very trusting generation,” said Assistant District Attorney Bradford Richman, referring to the 76-year-old woman. “The defendant absolutely abused and violated a trust that the victim placed in him.”
The case is being handled by prosecutors in the district attorney’s elder abuse prosecution unit, which was formed earlier this year to focus on crimes against the elderly.
“We’re trying to call attention to the fact that we are aggressively cracking down on these predators, these unscrupulous home improvement contractors, who prey upon senior citizens because of their trusting nature and their inability to double-check the work,” said Richman, who leads the elder abuse prosecution unit.
“We thought is was important to send a very clear message that we’re looking for these guys,” Richman added.
An investigation of Mager began in March when the woman, who lived alone, notified Royersford police and reported that Mager did not complete home remodeling work for which she paid him nearly $30,000.
The woman contacted Mager in March 2007 and initially paid him $1,600 to begin refurbishing the third-floor of her Summer Street home, according to the arrest affidavit. The woman later asked Mager to refurbish all three floors of the residence and the basement, for which Mager charged the woman a total of $29,700. “The victim was giving him monthly checks,” alleged Richman.
Sometime in the latter part of 2007, according to authorities, Mager told the woman that the third-floor renovations where nearly completed. However, authorities alleged that the woman could not inspect the work because of a health condition.
“(The woman) could not make it up to the third floor because of her severe asthma...,” Royersford Police Officer Thomas Godin alleged in the criminal complaint.
When the woman had difficulty contacting Mager in December 2007 she finally sought the assistance of friends and relatives, who discovered that a new doorknob and lock had been installed on the third-floor door, which prevented them from entering the room, court documents indicate.
When relatives and friends finally were able to enter the third-floor area they discovered that the remodeling work “was not even halfway completed,” according to the arrest affidavit.
“And he had done none of the work on the rest of the house for which he had been paid,” Richman alleged.
Mager never returned the woman’s money, authorities alleged.
Mager was eventually apprehended in New York during a traffic stop, according to authorities.
Officials offered the following advice to other seniors:
Do not hire contractors who appear at your home uninvited claiming they spotted a problem and can offer you a special discount. Only hire contractors who are licensed and insured.
Always check the background and references of people you hire to work in your home, including caregivers.
June 25, 2008 - As they grapple with skyrocketing energy costs, more homeowners are turning to remodelers for money-saving solutions. According to the results of the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) quarterly Remodeling Market Index (RMI), 33 percent of surveyed remodelers report that they are increasingly called on to improve the energy efficiency of their client’s homes.
The RMI measures remodeler perceptions of market demand for current and future residential remodeling projects.
“It’s no surprise with rising energy prices and other costs draining the piggy bank that homeowners want to maximize home performance with green remodeling options,” said NAHB Remodelers Chairman Lonny Rutherford, CGR, CAPS, CGP, a professional remodeler from Farmington, N. M. “Professional remodelers provide the solution for making the 125 million existing single-family homes in the United States more energy-efficient.”
The growing homeowner interest in green remodeling comes just as NAHB prepares for the upcoming National Green Building Standard,™ which includes the only consensus rating system for remodeling. This standard provides a roadmap for green remodeling and assures consumers that remodelers know how to plan and complete authentically green remodels.
According to the survey, remodelers have installed a number of efficiency-enhancing products in recent months, including:
- Windows—73 percent of surveyed remodelers installed more energy-efficient windows that are insulated to prevent outdoor heat exchange.
- Insulation—65 percent made upgrades such as insulation replacement and spraying foam or fiber insulation into enclosed walls and roof cavities, while 27 percent insulated foundations and 52 percent installed insulated exterior doors.
- High-efficiency HVAC systems (56 percent)
- High-efficiency kitchen appliances (47 percent)
- Water-saving faucets and fixtures (46 percent)
“Newer technologies are also quickly gaining in popularity,” says Rutherford. “Thirty-five percent of remodelers reported installing tankless water heaters, which save on energy costs by heating water on demand instead of continuously eating energy.”
ABOUT THE RMI: The RMI is based on a quarterly survey of professional remodelers, whose answers to a series of questions were assigned numerical values to calculate two separate indexes. The first index gauges current market conditions and is based on remodelers’ reports of major and minor additions and alterations, plus maintenance work and repairs, on both owner- and renter-occupied dwellings. The second index gauges expectations for the near future and is based on remodelers’ reports of their calls for bids, amount of work committed for the next three months, job backlogs and appointments for proposals. A variety of “special questions” are also asked at the end of the survey to help pinpoint market trends.
ABOUT NAHB REMODELERS: NAHB Remodelers is America’s home for professional remodelers, representing the 14,000 remodeling industry members of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Founded in 1982, the organization provides information, education and designation programs to improve the business and construction expertise of its members and to enhance the professional image of the industry. Its membership incorporates 150 local councils in 49 states. Learn more about remodeling at http://www.nahb.org/remodel.
More Southerners use Earth-friendly home construction
There was a time when even Kermit the frog agreed it was hard to be green. That’s certainly changing now as the South hurriedly catches up to the North with building and seeking more energy-efficient houses.
With skyrocketing energy bills, it’s no surprise that “green building” is taking hold in residential construction as a way to try to curb that cost, as well as promote more efficient use of resources.
“My impression is that it is catching on rather fast, especially with the consumer,” says John Allen, president of the Huntsville-Madison County Builders Association and owner of Southern Construction & Design. “The market, right now, is especially sensitive to energy costs that are on rise as this affects the consumer pocketbook. They are looking to ways to save on this cost.”
It’s become such an expense that Allen says people now look at how much they can afford in a mortgage and insurance and then want to know what they should anticipate in their first energy bill in any house they’re buying. If they’re building a house, then he says more consumers want an energy-efficient design these days.
If you’re one of those people who may build then you’ll want to know the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has green building guidelines that offer you three different levels - bronze, silver and gold - of energy-efficient design so your house can be certified “green.”
Allen says each level has minimum requirements necessary to award the level. While each level higher also rises in up front costs, he says it’s important to know it also results in higher energy savings so you quickly recoup the investment.
“The more you put in, generally speaking, the more savings you would see over the lifetime of the structure,” he says. “Design elements could include geothermal heat pump, HVAC units, spray foam insulating systems, insulating concrete form wall systems, Energy Star appliances, grey and brown water reclamation systems, use of recycled materials, use of truss system and engineered lumber, radiant roofing barriers, solar power, wind turbine power generators, on-demand hot water systems.”
The local association is helping promote the NAHB’s National Green Building Program.
“More and more houses in our areas are being constructed with green building techniques, procedures and materials,” Allen says. “Green building is a generic term to describe the activity of building a structure to maximize resource efficiency, energy efficiency and also sustainability of the structure.”
For those of you with existing houses, Kermit would proudly tell you there are ways to get green with them, too.
While NAHB will have green standards for remodeling by this summer, there are some easy options already. You can reinsulate the house with a spray foam product that offers much higher insulation value or use a tankless water heater, which Allen says saves energy and water.
New houses are being built with a higher standard of energy efficiency as building codes increasingly require it, Allen says. Consumers, fast tiring of high energy bills, are driving the movement.
“Green building really centers on changing the mindset of the typical construction process,” he says. “It encompasses issues such as lot placement, house orientation, subdivision development, energy efficiency and even on how you use recycled materials in the process. It is not just about using green products or just about energy efficiency, so it’s important to think about the process from start to finish, and how you are going to implement green building techniques at every step of the building process.”
What’s at stake is how much you’ll pay in energy costs throughout the life of the house. Also, going green is more socially conscious as it eases demand for utilities overall. For example, Allen says using wood truss technology means less trees are logged in an area, trucked out of the forest to the mill, sawn into lumber, trucked to the supplier and then trucked to a job site, and that means less diesel is burned to get all this done.
“Additionally, since stick frame construction is not very efficient, the less waste lumber goes into a dumpster and then is dumped in a landfill,” he says. “The more green a house is built the more is saved in global costs of wasteful construction techniques. Any way you look at it, it is a good thing to build green.”
Don’t forget landscaping in your green design.
For example, rainwater can be collected from the roof system to water the lawn, which helps conserve water. Planting trees help shade the house in summer, helping to keep it cooler and lessoning need for air conditioning.
Jason Reid, regulatory affairs director with the Home Builders Association of Alabama (HBAA), agrees markets forces are really “ ...shaping the debate when it comes to energy efficiency and green building.” Builders requested a green program so the association partnered with the state Department of Economic and Community Affairs and Southface Energy Institute to provide the EnergyKey program. As the only statewide energy efficient/green building program, it already has 100 certified builders with several of them in the Huntsville area.
“If you as a consumer are interested in having a home built to energy efficient or green building standards, above and beyond the energy efficiency already included in homes built today, then this program will provide your builder or remodeler with the practices and techniques to help meet your energy needs,” Reid says.
The EnergyKey program was launched in the fall of 2006, with the goal of providing a multi-tiered energy-efficient green building program that would fit a wide range of consumer budgets and interests. It is a voluntary program in which a builder and home owner agree on the level of energy efficiency for the house.
The Green EnergyKey level, which is rolling out this spring, will complete the three-tiered program. The HBAA is now working toward expanding the program to include remodeling and development practices as a potential fourth and fifth level to the program. With the marketing programs of the HBAA and its EnergyKey partners, the EnergyKey program is expected to grow in popularity.
Word is getting out about it as more consumers ask for energy-efficient houses.
“While consumer interest in energy efficiency may have been relatively low in the past, new home construction has incorporated many energy saving technologies into the standard home built today,” Reid says. “The moderate climate in the Southeast along with traditionally low energy costs have kept energy efficiency out of the minds of most consumers. However, with the changing climate and escalating fuel costs, as well as increasing interest in environmental matters, interest in energy efficiency is becoming more prevalent. The EnergyKey program is geared toward those consumers ready to take that next step in energy efficiency.”
8. Assess your current situation: Do you have the funds, time and patience to remodel your home? Does it make sense to remodel or simply move into a larger home? According to the American Homeowner Foundation, moving can be extremely expensive, typically involving a 6 percent commission on the sale of the current home, plus another 2-4 percent for closing, moving and other costs. They suggest that if you like your present neighborhood, you should look into what improvements you could make for 8-10 percent of your current home’s value before you seriously consider moving as an alternative to remodeling.
7. Decide how long you intend to stay in your present home: Are you remodeling so you can sell faster or get a higher sale price? Or are you remodeling to create a more comfortable environment for a long-term situation? The answers to those questions will determine how much money you should spend and the scope of the remodeling project you should realistically undertake.
6. Start defining the areas of the home that you want to change: You should have some idea of what the remodeling project will entail before you call a contractor. Cut pictures out of magazines. Make a list of rooms that need to be altered and the reasons for those changes. This information will help speed the design phase of your remodel.
5. Clear plenty of time on your calendar for the project: Do not attempt to remodel your entire kitchen the month before Thanksgiving-it’s unrealistic. You should establish a realistic timetable with your contractor that allows for delays due to weather, supply shortages, or other glitches that may occur.
4. Find a reputable contractor: The only way to protect yourself during a remodeling project is to hire a professional contractor. Make sure that you choose a contractor who is insured, licensed (if required in your state) and a member of a professional trade association, such as NARI.
3. Create a budget: Decide how much you can realistically afford for the project before you start. If you are remodeling to sell, your budget should not exceed the increase in sales price of the home that is the result of remodeling. If you plan on staying in the home for a lengthy amount of time, you should spend a little more to get what you want.
2. Request a comprehensive proposal from your contractor: The proposal should tell you how much the project is going to cost and what types of products will be used. If the proposal comes in above your budget limit, talk to your contractor about other options. Sometimes you can accomplish the same look with other products or design techniques.
1. USE BUILDPROOF: Simply visit Buildproof.com, sign up, invite your contractor if he/she is not already registered with Buildproof, and break ground!
Contractors’ reputations can be hurt by ‘bad apples’
Everyone’s heard the home remodeling horror stories about contractors who leave projects half complete or those who simply take the down payment and make tracks.
But what you don’t often hear about are all the success stories of honest, reputable, and quality contractors. This is a classic case where a few bad apples spoil the entire remodeling barrel, and unfortunately the mainstream media enjoys exploiting these instances. In reality the majority of contractors strives to do their best work and to make sure that their projects exceed the expectations of their customers.
But how do you find one of these good contractors, especially when there are so many? Your first stop should be the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. Their goal is to reinforce and promote professionalism within the remodeling industry as well as hold their members to its code of ethics. Plus, with so many outstanding members, you’re sure to find one that specializes in what you’re looking to do. Other places to look are ServiceMagic, Reliable Remodeler, and BestContractors.com. These sites connect you to contractors who are not only in your area, but who also have expertise in what you’re remodeling!
At the end of the day, Buildproof exists to help facilitate more successful remodeling projects. This means protecting BOTH the homeowner and the contractor. The contractors in our directory are naturally honest, reputable and do good work. If they weren’t, why would they permit homeowners to put their payments in our Safehouse until the work is complete? By protecting the homeowner’s money, we’re also protecting the contractor’s payments, and more importantly, their reputation.
Thinking of Remodeling? Survey Shows What Homeowners are Most Likely to Revamp in the Restroom
Source: REMODELING Magazine
Publication date: June 1, 2008
By Nina Patel
A recent survey conducted by Reliable Remodeler, a home improvement contractor matching service in Portland, Ore., found that homeowners are interested in remodeling their existing bathroom spaces, choosing to change and replace major features instead of adding a new bathroom. About 22% of the owners wanted to expand their existing bathrooms, and just 10% were interested in adding a brand new bathroom to their home.
“Updating an existing bathroom may be a more conservative choice than adding a brand new one, but it still brings a high return on investment, which is what homeowners are looking for,” says Reliable Remodeler founder Eric Doebele.
Bathroom remodels are consistently popular with homeowners, 24% of respondents were currently in the middle of a bathroom remodel, and 10% had done one within the past year. Overall, 47% of homeowners had done a bathroom remodel within the past 10 years.
ALL she wanted was a nice fence around her backyard. Danielle O’Connell was planning a 2-year-old birthday party for her daughter at the family’s Elmsford home and wanted the 18 toddlers safely fenced in.
Mrs. O’Connell and her husband got several estimates but were discouraged by the cost and how long it would take to finish. All the contractors who bid told them the fence would cost at least $5,000 and take four to six weeks to put up.
Then the O’Connells got lucky — at least they thought they did. The couple found a contractor in the Yellow Pages who promised to build the fence for $2,000 and to do it in a week. “We were like, ‘Thank God we found this guy,’ ” Mrs. O’Connell said. “We’re thinking, ‘This is fantastic — those other people were going to rip us off.’ ”
There was a rip-off involved, of course, but it was by the low bidder, not the other contractors. After pressuring Mrs. O’Connell to give him a $1,000 deposit for construction material quickly, he disappeared. He never showed up to build the fence, nor did he answer the phone calls Mrs. O’Connell made as the weeks dragged on.
The O’Connells later found out that he is suspected of bilking at least 11 others out of their money, too. His Larchmont-based company, Frontier Fence, is featured on the county’s Renegade Renovator list, a compilation of 23 home improvement contractors the Department of Consumer Protection is warning residents to avoid (westchestergov.com/consumer/contractors/problematiccontractors.htm). Efforts to contact Frontier Fence were unsuccessful; another business has been given its phone number.
Gary S. Brown, the director of Consumer Protection, said unreliable contractors were “our No. 1 priority because it’s our No. 1 complaint.” The county received 375 complaints about contractors last year. (The second highest source of grievances concerned gasoline sales, but Mr. Brown said those rarely involved violations; consumers were venting their outrage at prices.)
With nearly 7,000 licensed contractors in Westchester — and what Mr. Brown estimates to be 1,200 unlicensed ones — home improvement is big business. Go to any local dinner party and the conversation will most likely veer at some point toward renovation horror stories. In some communities, the true status symbol in the driveway is not the Lexus or the Mercedes, but the Dumpster — the sign that you are having major work done.
Even when everything goes exactly as planned, renovations are usually expensive, disruptive and stressful. But when there’s a shady contractor involved, insult can be added to injury to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Worse, unscrupulous contractors often focus on vulnerable older people, as well as victims of natural disasters, like the recent flood victims in Mamaroneck, who were eager to get repairs as quickly as possible.
It takes more than one shoddy job or broken promise to make the Renegade Renovator list, a group Mr. Brown describes as “the worst of the worst.” These contractors have generated multiple complaints, and tend to owe a lot of people — customers, suppliers and subcontractors — a lot of money.
Westchester requires all home improvement contractors — roofers, driveway pavers, landscapers, tile setters, chimney sweeps, fence installers, exterior painters, masons and people who install siding, doors, windows, decks and pools — to be licensed. Last spring, the county conducted a sting operation to catch unlicensed renovators. Using a county-owned house in Yorktown in need of repair, a police detective posing as a homeowner invited bids from unlicensed contractors, who had advertised in places like the Penny Saver and on supermarket bulletin boards.
“If they showed up at the house and made a bid, they were arrested on the spot,” Mr. Brown said.
Two of those who showed up were already on the Renegade Renovator list. Those arrested were charged with a misdemeanor. The Consumer Protection Department is pushing for tougher county legislation that would allow it to seize the trucks and tools of contractors who flout the licensing law. To get their property back, contractors would have to pay off outstanding fines.
That doesn’t guarantee they’ll get a license. To qualify, contractors must pass a criminal background check, have both liability and workers’ compensation insurance and also prove they have no unresolved judgments against them.
Of course, hiring a licensed contractor is no guarantee of a problem-free project. But “hiring an unlicensed contractor is a virtual guarantee you’ll be unsatisfied,” Mr. Brown said. “It’s like playing Russian roulette.”
The O’Connells never did get their money back. On the day of the birthday party, Mr. O’Connell went to Home Depot and bought some poles and plastic orange construction sheeting. It wasn’t pretty, but it kept the toddlers corralled. The family has since gotten a proper fence. They went with the original bid of $5,000.
Phoenix Firefighters Arrested in Arson for Hire Plot
JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX (AP)—A five-month investigation into an arson fire that destroyed a $1.5 million home led to the arrests of two Phoenix firefighters and a former city firefighter.
The trio was believed to have burned the 10,000-square-foot home at the behest of another firefighter, who worked for the suburb of Peoria and ran a construction business as a second job, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday.
The contractor conspired with the trio because the family building the home hadn’t paid him in full, Arpaio said.
The family said they paid the contractor for the work he had performed thus far, but didn’t let him complete several thousand dollars of additional work because he wouldn’t correct errors he had made in building the home’s foundation.
Two of the men arrested in the case also are believed to have torched a truck.
Firefighter Joseph Avey, 34, and former firefighter Darryl Lanning, 43, were each booked in county jail on two counts of arson.
Firefighter Christopher Bishop, 36, was booked on one count of arson in the Dec. 20 house fire.
The firefighter who ran the construction business is an ``investigative lead’’ and hasn’t been arrested, Arpaio said.
Betty Johnson, who hired the firefighter to excavate and build the foundation, said she was sad to learn that firefighters had burned her dream home.
``I’m not a spiteful person, but I hope, now they are in jail, that they would go through and feel just a slight amount of what we have been going through,’’ Johnson said.
The home was nearing the end of construction when it was destroyed.
Arpaio said Lanning, Avey and Bishop may have received money for burning the home. All three declined a request by The Associated Press for an interview.
Bishop has worked as a Phoenix firefighter for 10 years. Avey joined the department eight years ago. Both men were put on paid administrative leave.
Lanning worked for the Phoenix Fire Department for nearly eight years before resigning in January. Fire officials said they didn’t know why Lanning had left the department.
``We were all very much caught by surprise,’’ said Assistant Phoenix Fire Chief Bob Khan. ``I’m saddened and concerned and worried, but at the end of the day, you still have to go on those calls.’’
Lanning implicated Bishop and Avey, both of whom declined to talk to investigators, Arpaio said.
Lanning and Avey also are accused of setting fire to a truck that Avey had bought.
Avey, who was burdened by the truck’s payments, reported the vehicle stolen and collected insurance money, authorities said.
Arizona Firefighters Arrested On Suspicion Of Arson
BRYON WELLS Courtesy of East Valley Tribune
Two Phoenix firefighters were arrested along with a former colleague early Tuesday on suspicion of deliberately setting fire to a west Valley home in exchange for money, officials said.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office investigators learned through an undisclosed source that the men, identified as Christopher Bishop, 36, Joseph Avey, 34, and Darryl Lanning, 43, burned the home on Dec. 20, causing $750,000 damage, according to Superior Court records.
All are being held at Madison Street Jail in lieu of $81,000 bond on suspicion of arson of an occupied structure, a class two felony.
Bishop and Avey, both active firefighters, were arrested about 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at Phoenix Fire Department Station 18 at 5019 N. 23rd Ave. , said Assistant Phoenix Fire Chief Bob Khan.
“It was a surprise to me,” Khan said. “These two were very capable firefighters,” he said. “One was a former (Navy) SEAL.”
Lanning, who resigned from the fire department in January, was arrested Monday night.
According to court records, investigators learned the three drove to the home about 6:30 a.m., after apparently being hired by a contractor or construction worker upset at not being paid by the home’s owners for work he’d done.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which is handling the investigation, was expected to release further details this afternoon.
Complaints about unlicensed contractors have skyrocketed since the economic downturn forced builders into a slump.
Many builders and construction companies are downsizing or going under, spurring homeowners to turn to unlicensed contractors for residential handiwork.
Complaints against those contractors have jumped 15 percent in the past year.
“You feel totally helpless,” said homeowner Rick Vullo.
Vullo gave Dmitry Ioshpa a $2,200 deposit for granite countertops. The check was cashed the same day, but Vullo said Ioshpa never showed up to do the work.
“His truck broke down, his son-in-law couldn’t get out of a job,” Vullo said. “It was one excuse after another.”
Vullo, a Tempe father of five, wasn’t Ioshpa’s only disgruntled customer. The Arizona Registrar of Contractors said Ioshpa has taken many Valley residents for tens of thousands of dollars.
“When you deal with someone who is unlicensed, especially in the contracting business, you are literally throwing the dice on the table and hoping it doesn’t turn up craps,” said Brian Livingston of the Registrar of Contractors.
The Registrar gave the following list of the top five contractors to watch out for:
* Alex Aguirre - Garden Masonry and Landscape
* Christopher James Eastwood - Affordable Remodeling
* Mario Leonardo Villa - J&M Construction
* George Rodriguez - who works on fences and masonry
* Dmitry Loshpa - Design International Flooring
“These are people who repeatedly go and hurt consumers,” Livingston said.
Vullo said he felt “completely violated.”
“I mean, he came in my house and saw my kids, met my wife, and to think he knew that he wasn’t going to do any work is absolutely appalling,” Vullo said.
Anyone with information about the five listed contractors is urged to contact the Arizona Registrar of Contractors.
Buildproof is pleased to announce that the Buildproof Buddies program has officially launched!
The Buildproof Buddies program is an active effort to encourage the adoption of pets at animal rescue shelters across the valley.
According to The Humane Society of the United States, 6-8 million pets enter shelters each year while only 3-4 million leave with loving families. Only 18% of family pets are adopted from pet shelters. While over 3 million pets are euthanized each year due to over-population of U.S. animal shelters. Buildproof Buddies’ goal is to reduce, and one day eliminate, pet euthanization due to shelter overpopulation.
What you can do to help:
Simply sign up for a particular week and you will be given email and flyer templates as well as assigned a sweet animal that needs a loving home. Your job, for one week, is to:
1. send the email to everyone you think might be interested in either adopting the pet or donating to the Arizona Friends of Animal Care and Control and encourage them to keep forwarding the email until the animal is adopted
2. post flyers at various pet stores and neighborhoods in your community
If you cannot adopt an animal or make a donation at this time, please forward this information to all of your friends, family, co-workers and fellow pet-lovers. You and your community’s involvement is vital to the lives of these loving animals.
Together we can provide secure homes for our furry friends!
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