Home, trade & retail
Quote marketplaces, contractor directories and the listings a homeowner opens at nine on a Sunday night.
Where home, trade and retail is judged
- Angi
- Houzz
- BuildZoom
- Yelp
- DealerRater
- FMCSA SAFER
- HomeAdvisor
- CarGurus
- and 13 more
Plus the 8 read for every business, whatever it sells — the full list.
The 5 trades in home, trade and retail
Where an issue reads
Particular to home, trade and retail
Read at the moment this page was rendered. If the crawler stops reading one, it leaves this list the same day — which is the difference between a source list and a marketing page somebody typed.
And for every business, whatever it sells
Why some of these are not review sites
- Angi
- the dominant US directory for trades, and the one that ranks
- Houzz
- portfolio-led; where a remodeller is judged on photographs
- BuildZoom
- permit history and licence status, pulled from public records
- FMCSA SAFER
- DOT safety rating, crash and inspection history — a shipper's first check, and entirely public
- OSHA enforcement
- inspections and citations — public, and the single most damaging thing a prospective client can find
- SAM.gov
- federal contracting status and exclusions
- RepairPal
- certification and fair-price estimates
What it counts
The same complaint on three sites is a different fact
Every issue counts the same 12 themes for this trade — how often each is raised, on how many separate platforms, and whether the recent half is worse than the older half. None of it is a model’s impression of how common something is.
The quality of what was done
Turning upArriving, on time, no-shows, rescheduling
Staff conductAttitude, care taken, respect for the property
PricingQuotes, extras, what the bill came to
And 8 more in every issue: communication, cleanliness, booking, aftercare, safety, timeliness, quality of work, damage and loss.
The other sectors
24 issues about home, trade and retail
Yours specifically — no benchmarks, no industry averages, no filler. The first one is written the day you sign up, so you can judge it before the second arrives.
Half of an issue is read from a site of your own. If your business does not have one, leave this empty — you get the half read from your listings and reviews, and here is what that leaves out.