tishfox, please answer the following questions:
1) Did any eyewitness (other than your spouse) see you hire a contractor or let the contractor enter your premises?
**A: not relevant.
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2) Did you have any paper trial linking you with the contractor?
**A: what is a paper trial? Ususally all trails have papers, be it complaints, briefs, orders etc.
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3) Is there any way to link the contractor to you?
**A: good grief, the writer already stated that there is a clear link.
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If you answered NO to all of the above questions then you can deny that you even knew the contractor. Since there is nothing linking you to the contractor, then you can consider yourself a victim and act accordingly.
**A: contributors on this website do not provide advice such as yours. You do not deserve to be posting your idiot responses inclcuding advising a writer to out and out lie.
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By the way, postings to this forum does NOT count because you are anonymous here. Thanks.
**A: it does count indeed. It will not count for you when we feel ready and compelled to kick you off.