Beware: CityWidePros Curb Painting

[Anonymous]

Curb Stenciling Questions To Ask.

Well this seems like a strong response for taping a sign to your stucco. But I will comment on this because of the nature of the post.

I own a legitimate curb painting and parking lot painting company. I am required to have the following things:

*carry a license with the state of California
*carry 1 million dollars of insurance for any accidents that occur on your property while working.
*carry workers compensation.

Also, If I want to work in your neighborhood I wouldn’t post or drop off any kind of advertising except through paid and/or mailed advertising or via advertising to your association board.

What these guys are looking to do is make some fast, easy money. I don’t think there bad guys but there are risk involved any time someone is on your property. I knew of one case where a few guys where painting curbs and one of them was hit by an elderly resident pulling in to her driveway. The fact that she had prepaid this company was enough for attorneys to show she had a contracted with the painters. As you can imagine her home insurance had to pay for the guys injuries for a very long time. This happens more often than you would believe.

Final thoughts on this would be that you should be very careful when dealing with any person working on your property. Check with your city for authorized charities that do this service or go online and look for a licensed company. With searches like “Curb Painting San Diego” or Curb Stenciling Poway” Etc. Or if you don’t want to bother with all that maybe have a nephew or neighbor do it and pay them instead.

Good Luck

James
http://www.trueline.net

[CBad]

We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! 😉

[CBad]

We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! 😉

[CBad]

We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! 😉

[CBad]

We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! 😉

[CBad]

We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=CBad]We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! ;)[/quote]

Cities generally do NOT paint addresses on curbs. In our neighborhoods in Los Angeles and here in San Diego, we always had to pay a crew (like these companies) to paint the curb.

We go overboard and paint it on the side of the curb and also along the top — so it’s easier to see from up high, and is less likely to be rubbed off by tires. We also have large, reflective numbers on our mailbox and have the standard numbers on our house.

Why? My DH, who works in emergency services, insists on it. He said that many calls are indeed delayed because the homes/businesses do not clearly display their addresses. They do have satellite images in many emergency vehicles now, but it does not make up for clearly visible address signs — think about finding the **exact** house in the dark while relying on the google-type images we see on RE sites.

Just my 2 cents.

[CA renter]

[quote=CBad]We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! ;)[/quote]

Cities generally do NOT paint addresses on curbs. In our neighborhoods in Los Angeles and here in San Diego, we always had to pay a crew (like these companies) to paint the curb.

We go overboard and paint it on the side of the curb and also along the top — so it’s easier to see from up high, and is less likely to be rubbed off by tires. We also have large, reflective numbers on our mailbox and have the standard numbers on our house.

Why? My DH, who works in emergency services, insists on it. He said that many calls are indeed delayed because the homes/businesses do not clearly display their addresses. They do have satellite images in many emergency vehicles now, but it does not make up for clearly visible address signs — think about finding the **exact** house in the dark while relying on the google-type images we see on RE sites.

Just my 2 cents.

[CA renter]

[quote=CBad]We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! ;)[/quote]

Cities generally do NOT paint addresses on curbs. In our neighborhoods in Los Angeles and here in San Diego, we always had to pay a crew (like these companies) to paint the curb.

We go overboard and paint it on the side of the curb and also along the top — so it’s easier to see from up high, and is less likely to be rubbed off by tires. We also have large, reflective numbers on our mailbox and have the standard numbers on our house.

Why? My DH, who works in emergency services, insists on it. He said that many calls are indeed delayed because the homes/businesses do not clearly display their addresses. They do have satellite images in many emergency vehicles now, but it does not make up for clearly visible address signs — think about finding the **exact** house in the dark while relying on the google-type images we see on RE sites.

Just my 2 cents.

[CA renter]

[quote=CBad]We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! ;)[/quote]

Cities generally do NOT paint addresses on curbs. In our neighborhoods in Los Angeles and here in San Diego, we always had to pay a crew (like these companies) to paint the curb.

We go overboard and paint it on the side of the curb and also along the top — so it’s easier to see from up high, and is less likely to be rubbed off by tires. We also have large, reflective numbers on our mailbox and have the standard numbers on our house.

Why? My DH, who works in emergency services, insists on it. He said that many calls are indeed delayed because the homes/businesses do not clearly display their addresses. They do have satellite images in many emergency vehicles now, but it does not make up for clearly visible address signs — think about finding the **exact** house in the dark while relying on the google-type images we see on RE sites.

Just my 2 cents.

[CA renter]

[quote=CBad]We get these outfits taping or putting signs in our door about every year and have never paid them. I honestly can’t even remember if they’ve ever painted the numbers or not? I don’t think they have. I know I have never said NO I don’t want it and put the sign back out there to indicate so. Pretty sure the city paints the darn numbers on the curb for free so I never understood why you’d want the cheesy custom job with the waves or rainbows and crap. I see some of the neighbors have them. What about neighborhoods that don’t have sidewalks? Pretty sure the fire & police dept. finds those people. I’m 100% sure if I was accused of committing a crime the police could find my house, faded paint job or not! ;)[/quote]

Cities generally do NOT paint addresses on curbs. In our neighborhoods in Los Angeles and here in San Diego, we always had to pay a crew (like these companies) to paint the curb.

We go overboard and paint it on the side of the curb and also along the top — so it’s easier to see from up high, and is less likely to be rubbed off by tires. We also have large, reflective numbers on our mailbox and have the standard numbers on our house.

Why? My DH, who works in emergency services, insists on it. He said that many calls are indeed delayed because the homes/businesses do not clearly display their addresses. They do have satellite images in many emergency vehicles now, but it does not make up for clearly visible address signs — think about finding the **exact** house in the dark while relying on the google-type images we see on RE sites.

Just my 2 cents.

[CBad]

Well, someone is occasionally painting the number on my curb and I haven’t paid them for it. I assumed it was the city. If not, thanks anonymous painter dude; you are doing a bang up job.

[CBad]

Well, someone is occasionally painting the number on my curb and I haven’t paid them for it. I assumed it was the city. If not, thanks anonymous painter dude; you are doing a bang up job.

[CBad]

Well, someone is occasionally painting the number on my curb and I haven’t paid them for it. I assumed it was the city. If not, thanks anonymous painter dude; you are doing a bang up job.

[CBad]

Well, someone is occasionally painting the number on my curb and I haven’t paid them for it. I assumed it was the city. If not, thanks anonymous painter dude; you are doing a bang up job.

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