I need to vent. First off, this is my own personal opinion.
With that said, let me begin. Back in August, I bid on a sweet 3 story apt. building. I get a call saying I was not the lowest, but the winning bidder. The Apt. Bldg. is run by a management company. They now tell me I have to contact this company called COMPLIANCE DEPOT, and go thru them...oh and there is a fee. This is where I went against my better judgement. They want ME to pay a fee to a company that will investigate my company on THIER behalf?? This sounds absurd..and it is. I mean they never told me about it before the bid..so it wasnt included. I figured if I do it its only $95 so I would eat it to land the gig. I dwelled over it for days, looking into compliance depot to make sure they were legit.
I even talked to Alex about getting a WFP set up(would of been perfect for the job, and paid for itself this day).
I asked compliance depot many questions before I sent them my check..such as what I would need to "pass". they refused to give me any info I was looking for until I paid the fee.
Well, I paid the fee, for them to give my insurance agent a hard time about ridiculous additional insured to the insurance policy(which my agent gave in and did)..then they told me my auto insurance wasnt "large" enough. I told them my truck has full coverage and showed them....not good enough. I even looked into getting the additional insurance they wanted me to have...but the cost of that added with thier "fee" would of left me about $100 for the job. Compliance Depot wouldnt give me the answers to my questions before I paid because they would of never of gotten my money. I would of known I didnt qualify to thier standards.
Shame on me...
Dont do what I did
I would like to induct Compliance Depot into the Hall of shame...COMPLIANCE DEPOT ..YOU SUCK!!!

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It's painfully obvious that Compliance Depot is replying to this thread touting themselves as a great company. I just heard their name today from an apt. manager and came home to do some research on them and the first thing that popped up was "Compliance Depot Scam" so I read it and found they, apparrently, have horrible customer service and treat most of their contractors rudely and like criminals. And won't answer any questions and even when a few of the contractors, who had all the necessary insurance, portrayed them to the properies as NOT having the right credentials. Sounds to me like they really don't know what they're doing... OH! And, a Compliance Depot owner or employee got on that thread and started INSULTING the vendor who was reporting him and spelled many words wrong in his post, like "repercussion" was spelled "repricusion" or something like that. Anyway, I will not be joining after reading so many horrible things about the company. And.. they are not an official member of the Better Business Bureau because when they were, they were rated an "F". They've had 9 complaints in less than 3 years and that's quite a few for a small company with only one location. This is my opinion but they are definately NOT the industry standard. Anyone can call and verify insurance, but do you really have to be RUDE to all the insurance companies in the process? NOPE. Now, I'm waiting for the company to respond to this, like in the other scam threads... or someone to come on after me and say how AWESOME they are... my advice keep googling them and see for yourself!


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I have been bilked out of $185 by this company not counting the increase in insurance I was required to get before being compliant. There were no jobs and in fact they were taking the paint turns in house at most propertys while they were taking my money. I have filed a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General. At best this is just preditory.

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Compliance Depot is nothing but trouble even if you have a multi-state contract with a company you will have nothing but hassle getting paid for it. Compliance Depot has lost us over $50,000 in just ONE YEAR due to "random" computer errors that make our insurance somehow not acceptable. They never answer their phones and when they do, they give you fake email addresses that always get returned by mailer daemon. They never return your calls when you leave a message and most importantly, they somehow never find your paperwork after you fax it. Our insurance is not paid monthly, we pay yearly so there should be no reason why we are compliant one day and then screwed the next. We even had to triple our insurance to meet their new standards, which we did no problem but then a month later looky looky we are not compliant again! A property in Beaverton OR is holding a $3,000 check for us we were supposed to pick up on Tuesday but compliance depot says they fixed the problem last week......we are still not compliant.....they are a scam.

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Where do I begin?
I have experience with compliance depot from pretty much the beginning.
If you want to do business today, you will deal with them like it or not.
It’s not fun or easy and it feels a lot like extortion. Some companies won’t even pay you for work performed in the past unless you are currently compliant even though you were compliant when the work was performed!
My company has definitely been injured financially by this company and I’m sick and tired of it!
My insurance broker told me that they have rejected the verbiage in several accounts because of the lack of a coma. Weeks and Months have gone by trying to get money that I have already earned. My credit has been maxed out for over a year because of this and all the while I carry a huge accounts receivable.
It might be different if I thought they were doing the apartment complexes some good but they don’t. They hurt them by making the compliance issue slow motion. What used to be handled easily is now painfully slow and inefficient by way of red tape.

As far as insurance is concerned I carry plenty on the trucks as well as Liability up the wazzoo.
What a wart Compliance depot is on the face of the service industries. America will never recover unless this kind of crap stops.
I hope someone from there reads this and gets a clue but I'm not holding my breath. The insurance companies should be doing this for free