If you contact for any alteration, repair, or other modification of your residential property that costs more than $150.00, then this statute applies to that contract.
The law generally requires:
- The telephone numbers and names of any person for handling consumer problems.
- Any time limitation on the consumer's acceptance of the home improvement contract.
- A reasonably detailed description of the proposed home improvements.
- The approximate starting and ending dates.
- A statement of any contingencies that would materially change the approximate completion date
- Be in a form that each consumer who is a party to it can reasonably read and understand.
- The contract price.
The Home Improvements Statute falls within Indiana's Deceptive Consumer Sales Act (see my article on that statute starting here) . For a successful suit, you must also follow that statute.
The Deceptive Consumer Sales Act allows for the following remedies:
- The actual money damages or $500.00, whichever is greater.
- For willful deceptive acts, the court may increase damages to: 3 times the actual damages of the consumer suffering the loss but not more than $1,000.00.
- Attorney fees.
- Read any contracts before you sign off on them to make sure that you are not going to be a victim of home improvement fraud.
- If you have a contract that is bad, I can go to court for you.
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