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Gitz-Meier /RestoreX Remodeling Rip-off

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11 years ago Gitz-Meier was brought in to do restorative work after a fire. Being a full time mother, IT Specialist and student, I rely on the experts to do their job and do it right!  Here's another fine example of taking ADVANTAGE  of a female in a trusting and vulnerable position.  Now that the scam has been uncovered I'M PISSED and rightfully so! I had a fire in the attic, the house was doused in hundreds of gallons of water from the top down on the west side. A traumatic experience on many levels to begin with ... Gitz-Meier has made sure that trauma follows me down the road! Being new why would a homeowner rip the new work contractors did all apart?  So I trusted they did the work they were supposed to, because it's not my job to do their job. I was busy being a mom, a student and a working, productive member of society. Now that I'm doing renovation work I find that walls which should have been replaced were merely coated with the absolute thinnest cement b

Drunken Student Loans

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There's student loan assistance for alcoholics in training. Just look to the Natty Light campaign ready to fork over $10 million dollars in student aid. Catch is you have to be young, willing to do a video and drink lots of beer, or buy lots of beer and convince others to drink it. Definitely far too much to cook with. I'm not an alcoholic, I'm not young and I am not photogenic. I'd never heard of Natural Light beer before, I wasn't even sure it was sold in Illinois, until I found cases of it sitting in the corner of a local gas station. I wandered over to the small pile and actually pondered buying a couple cases. It's cheap beer. Still a gamble and I'm also not a gambling person by nature. In the end, I walked away, miffed by the thought that this company is essentially bribing broke students desperate to pay their student loan debt by encouraging them to become alcoholic gamblers. No thanks. There's student loan assistance for students enter