New Horizons for Volunteers: Home Improvement Policy Support Guides (HGRBS)

BURIEN, Wash. - Oct. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- Rude Awakening

A man was recently arrested for scamming homeowners through receiving payment for home projects he either abandoned after being paid or did not start. One of his victims was a woman nearly 90-years-old of Boynton Beach, FL. He contracted with her to remodel her kitchen, then he faithfully demolished the unwanted kitchen set up. Yet once he received the money from her ($11,000.00), he stopped working on it and disappeared. The kitchen now resembled a war zone.

Advocates Identify Vulnerabilities

It is common knowledge that personal calamities such as what is presented occur all across America. However, they are identified as more than attacks on the peace and security of U.S. senior private home residents (whether they are renting, leasing, or owning their properties).

By and large, those who commit such atrocities act indiscriminately targeting and preying on every sort of private home resident vulnerable to them. Among other volunteers in this realm, those of HGRBS recognize that this saddening weakness among many of the nation’s private home dwellers is primarily due to the absence of two, basic personal and private essentials: Better Information and Relative Professional Guidance.

Better Information

Through research reports of those private home dwellers who are defrauded by dishonest people, sources uncovered this stark reality: most victims “knew better” i.e., they knew better than to take such ill-founded risks but took them, anyway.

The associate volunteers of HGRBS purport that in order for residents to shield themselves from such domestic pillage as conveyed earlier, it is imperative that they are not only “better informed” but “better connected,” meaning, always conferring with professional members of related support organizations.

Relative Professional Guidance

HGRBS happens to be among the few volunteer networks with whom private home residents can share concerns about the people they are considering for selection and hire to assist with their home maintenance and improvement objectives.

There’s reason to believe that if the senior victim of that tragic $11,000.00- episode consulted with volunteers of any related specialized operation (private or government) that it is highly probable that she will have been spared that traumatic experience.

A Third Reason

HGRBS identifies yet another explanation for the deficiency in better information and relative professional guidance: traditional perspectives about what volunteering entails. There is much credence to this claim realizing that being there for residents of the private home sector in an advisory and supportive capacity is not a popular concern. Surely, this is specific to matters of home maintenance and improvement concerns which remain outside of the generally identified context of what it is to volunteer.
The crux of this challenge is to encourage more people to realize that consulting and supporting residents of private home settings against decisions which can lead to their being defrauded or otherwise exploited is also a field in which related volunteers are vitally needed.

The Challenge of Raising Awareness

Consistent with objectives of many private and government agencies to inform and to support the rights and privileges of American homeowners and homerenters, HGRBS is poised to raise the standard for more volunteerism in this area.

In the process, it is hoped that many more will step forward to help tackle private home issues which can and often do affect the lives and living conditions of the people concerned. Among these are:

a.       Bad selection and hiring decisions of people to do work in, on, or around their homes

b.      Lack of better information both preventative and remedial with regard to home maintenance and improvement projects

c.       Lack of personal initiative to always confer with professional contacts well-versed about the pros and cons of home maintenance and improvement policy before, during, and after home projects are commenced.

Irrespective of the fact that HGRBS volunteer associates are not alone in the challenge towards raising awareness of the necessity of massive volunteer effort with respect to addressing policy concerns of indigenous private home residents, the network offers these opportunities for Volunteer Associates to represent their own states, first, then all others:

·         Writers

·         Recruiters

·         Online Advisors and Consultants

·         Flyers and Poster-hangers

·         Online “hawkers” about HGRBS’ “Free Policy Service” on Facebook, Twitter, Other Social Networks

·         Emissaries to and from local community centers, exclusive private clubs and lodges, entertainment and sports circles, educational and religious institutions, and other social gathering hubs

·         Door-to-door community outreach

·         Other activity for volunteering and encouraging others to volunteer in this realm towards the good of those who happen to be U.S. homeowners and homerenters.

Interested parties needing more information are cordially invited to browser for:

“Volunteer Associates – HGRBS”