Poor quality works can reflect not only shoddy workmanship but deliberate fraud. To constitute fraud, the poor quality work must be accompanied by willful and knowing misrepresentations by the contractor, for example, a contractor bills for work that it knows it did not do.
This red flag can indicate the following schemes:
Click on the schemes listed above to see more information about each scheme, a more complete listing of their red flags and steps to determine if the schemes are actually present.