Basement Waterproofing Royal Oak MI (basementwaterproofingroyaloakmi.com) serves homeowners in Royal Oak, MI and five neighboring Oakland County cities as a free referral and advertising service. This page sets out, in plain terms, what the site is and the one way it can earn money.
The site refers and advertises, and that is all it does. No one should mistake it for a contractor, a plumber, a residential builder, a maintenance and alteration contractor or any kind of salesperson, and it acts as no contractor's agent, and it has not been issued a Michigan license as a residential builder or a maintenance and alteration contractor. Basement work is not something it offers, solicits, sells, performs, arranges, schedules, coordinates, bids on, inspects, guarantees, negotiates or finances. It takes no deposits and enters into no contract with any homeowner.
What it passes along is a request to be contacted, sent through the form, to one independent local contractor. After that, every next step is the contractor's: it gets in touch, arranges anything that follows, visits only with your permission, prepares any estimate and does only the work you agree to with it directly.
A contractor may pay this site a flat advertising fee, waived for now under a free trial. The fee does not change with whether you sign or what a job costs; it is never a commission and is never charged per request or per job. Homeowners pay nothing to send a request and receive no money, gift or other value.
Advertising buys no endorsement, and the site never names a contractor. Under Michigan's advertising rule for licensees, the contractor must give you its own licensed name, LARA license number and actual business address; confirm them on LARA's online license verification, lara.michigan.gov/colaLicVerify. Sump tie-ins, backwater valves and sewer laterals belong with a licensed plumbing contractor working under a plumbing permit.
The site does not handle insurance matters and plays no role in any city's sewer-backup notice, which is the homeowner's own step. It has no tie to the City of Royal Oak or its Department of Public Service, Building Department, Engineering Division or Police Department, to the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner or the George W. Kuhn basin, or to the Great Lakes Water Authority, LARA, the Michigan Attorney General, FEMA, the FTC, USGS, the National Weather Service, Michigan State University, Oakland County or any of the five towns. Michigan law governs this disclosure.