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encourage or solicit a person to enter into any written or
oral agreement for home improvement services or provision of
home improvement materials or to justify an increase in the
previously agreed upon price;
(2) receives any advance payment for performing home
improvement services or providing home improvement materials
and fails to perform or provide such services or materials
when specified in the contract taking into account any force
majeure or unforeseen labor strike that would extend the time
frame or unless extended by agreement with the owner and
fails to return the payment received for such services or
materials which were not provided by that date;
(3) while soliciting a person to enter into an agreement
for home improvement services or materials, misrepresents or
conceals the contractor's or salesperson's real name, the
name of the contractor's business, the contractor's business
address or any other identifying information;
(4) damages a person's property with the intent to
induce, encourage or solicit that person to enter into a
written or oral agreement for performing home improvement
services or providing home improvement materials;
(5) misrepresents himself or another as an employee or
agent of the Federal, Commonwealth or municipal government,
any other governmental unit or any public utility with the
intent to cause a person to enter into any agreement for
performing home improvement services or providing home
improvement materials;
(6) misrepresents an item as a special order material or
to misrepresent the cost of the special order material;
(7) alters a home improvement agreement, mortgage,
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