Home Service App & Handyman Platform Watch

Why this is recommended

A guarantee that now excludes the job type the member booked, a $20 booking fee that appeared, a background check rule that changed, a settlement paying $50 to everyone who was charged a fee, or a ruling that makes the homeowner the employer of a tasker who got hurt are each worth the membership, and they land in terms updates nobody reads.

What the Tab covers

Who it is for

The 50 million households that book a pro through an app each year, and everyone who got a bad job and found the guarantee did not cover it.

When it runs

Platforms change consumer fees and guarantees mid-week; projects get booked on weekends

Scope

Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack, TaskRabbit, Handy, Frontdoor, Porch, Yelp, Nextdoor, Houzz, Lowe's and Home Depot pro services, Amazon Home Services and Jobber-powered marketplaces as they affect homeowners; booking, service and cancellation fees; guarantees and dispute processes; pro vetting, licensing, background check and insurance requirements; quote and pricing transparency rules; outages; FTC, state and class action enforcement with refunds; worker classification rulings and homeowner liability; review manipulation findings; entrants and shutdowns

Suggested task

The objective your Tab starts with. You can edit every line of it once the Tab is yours.

Consumer-side fee, booking and guarantee changes at Angi, Thumbtack, TaskRabbit, Handy, HomeAdvisor, Frontdoor, Porch, Yelp and Nextdoor for homeowners, happiness guarantee and dispute process changes, pro vetting, background check and insurance requirement changes, pricing transparency and quote rule changes, platform outages and account issues, enforcement actions and settlements with consumer refunds, worker classification rulings that affect liability for the homeowner, review manipulation findings and new entrants and shutdowns, with the platform first and what a homeowner is actually guaranteed.

Track home service booking platforms for US homeowners. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: consumer-side booking, service and cancellation fee changes at Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack, TaskRabbit, Handy, Frontdoor, Porch, Yelp, Nextdoor, Houzz, Lowe's and Home Depot pro services and Amazon Home Services; guarantee, protection and dispute process changes with what is now covered or excluded; pro vetting, licensing, background check and insurance requirement changes; quote and pricing transparency rule changes; outages over four hours; FTC, state and class action enforcement with consumer refunds and claims deadlines; worker classification rulings that change homeowner liability; review manipulation findings; and platform launches and shutdowns. Prefer platform terms and help pages, the FTC, state attorneys general, court documents and established consumer reporting; ignore platform marketing and unverified reviews. Put the platform first in the title and state what a homeowner is actually guaranteed. Use high severity for a guarantee reduction, a new fee at a top-5 platform, a settlement with a claims deadline, or a liability ruling. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.