It’s Monday morning and you wake up to find water all over your kitchen floor. Your husband has a business meeting in the city and is rushing to get out the door, the kids are racing through the house getting ready for school and you’re frantically mopping up water with towels and a mop. Your husband tells you to call a plumber to come out and fix the leak as he closes the door to the garage on his way out. You get the kids in the car; drop them off at school, and rush back home to contact a plumber. You open the phone book and make a few calls but most of the local plumbers are already tied up for the day. You resort to checking Craigslist and find a Handyman/Plumber with reasonable rates available 24/7. You make a phone call; they answer immediately and tell you they’ll be out to your home within 45 minutes. You’re happy because, the mess will be fixed and you can get on with your day!
You sit with a cup of coffee by the front window of your home and notice a beat up truck trying to find a house number. After several turns around the street you realize it’s the Handyman/Plumber you called to come out to fix your leak. You notice a variety of empty Starbuck’s cups on the dashboard, and when he opens the passenger side of the truck to get out his tool box, the tools are scattered everywhere. He flicks his cigarette butt as he walks up to your front door. He is covered in tattoos; hair is not combed, and looks like he just got out of bed, not to mention that your first instinct reminds you that he looks like a CRIMINAL!
He rings the door bell… and you open the door. Do you LET HIM INSIDE? You know absolutely NOTHING about him… Do you lie and tell him that you were able to fix the problem and thank him for his time? Do you ask for an ID badge to verify his credentials?
NO… You let him inside, you need that faucet fixed so you can get on with your day………Sometimes people are lucky and sometimes they are not. You know those times you read a horror story about what happened to someone exactly like you after they let a stranger inside their home all the time! Can you REALLY take a chance like that????
This story is not uncommon. More and more you read about women or seniors being alone at home during the day and opening their doors to strangers who do them harm. From home service contractors to door- to- door salesmen to even Caregivers, “Do you REALLY KNOW who the person is that you just let into your home or office?”
Claudia Bernard, owner of Protection Plus Solutions says “People need to “wake up” and not allow people not properly identified into their home or office. If their gut feeling tells them something isn’t right then it probably isn’t. They need to have specific questions fully answered before they allow a Repairman, Caregiver or even a Door-To-Door Salesman come inside. Does the person have verification that they’re working for the company they’re representing? Do they have a visible ID badge that says who they are and a phone number to call to verify this information?
Claudia says that her company Protection Plus Solutions provides a unique background screening service that offers “peace of mind” to homeowners and business owners alike because they can verify who the individual is that works in their home or business 24/7. “We monitor employees every month, not annually. Wouldn’t you want to know immediately if your employee had a criminal issue after hire, not a year later? Plus our ID badgeLINK system allows companies “Free of Charge” to post ID badges on their website that links back to ours to show customers that the person coming to their home is Crime-FREE if they use our background screening products.” For additional information regarding BadgeLINK please visit them at www.protectionplussolutions.com
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