Basement Waterproofing Grand Rapids MI (basementwaterproofinggrandrapidsmi.com) is a free referral service for homeowners in Grand Rapids, MI and nearby West Michigan communities. This page sets out plainly what the site does and how it is paid.
Nothing about the site makes it a contractor, waterproofing company or plumber. It does not offer, bid on, inspect, guarantee, negotiate or schedule basement work, and it never claims to have the means to get such work done. Neither a Michigan residential builder license nor a maintenance and alteration contractor license belongs to the site, so it has no license number to show. It is not any contractor's agent and does no selling or soliciting on a contractor's behalf. It never names a contractor. It does not handle insurance matters or speak to insurers for anyone.
A request sent through the form goes to one independent local contractor. That business contacts you about the project, visits only with your agreement, prepares any estimate and does only the work you sign up with it for. Any agreement is strictly between you and that business.
Contractors may pay this site a flat fee for advertising; for now the fee is waived under a free trial. It is never a percentage or a cut of any job. Homeowners never pay the site and are never given money, gifts, discounts or other value for making a request.
Advertising does not buy an endorsement, and the site does not rank, check or vouch for anyone. The contractor that contacts you must give you its own licensed name, LARA license number and business address. Look the number up on LARA's online license verification, ask for proof of liability insurance and workers' comp, and confirm who pulls each permit. Connecting a sump to any pipe, fitting a backwater valve, disconnecting a footing drain or working on a sewer lateral counts as plumbing, which a licensed plumbing contractor performs after pulling its own permit.
No link exists between this site and LARA, the Attorney General, the City of Grand Rapids or its Development Center and Environmental Services, Kent County, Ottawa County, any other city or township, the Grandville Clean Water Plant or the National Weather Service. The City's sewer programs use contractors the City selects. Michigan law governs this disclosure.