> There are many roofing companies over 50 years old that have stood by their guarantees. Name one. There are many, many more that haven't. I don't know how

> There are many roofing companies over 50 years old that have stood by their guarantees. Name one. There are many, many more that haven't. I don't know how to find a company that is guaranteed to be around in even 20 years to honor a warranty, and neither do you. > The choices are there in the market - you can buy a service from an upstart with no reputation and take a risk (but usually save some cash) or you can buy from an established provider with a reputation and pay a premium. It doesn't matter how "established" or "reputable" the company is. There is nothing naturally permanent about any company. Companies shut down all the time for perfectly legitimate and benign reasons, like when the owners retire. How many contractors do you think pass on their businesses to their kids? I'll give you a hint if you need it. And if a company is facing liability, or even the possibility of liability, there is nothing preventing them from shedding some or all of their liability in bankruptcy. The company that installed my roof was big, established, and reputable. They installed concrete tile roofs on two dozen houses in our neighborhood. The owners retired over a decade ago, long before the problems with our roofs became evident. There was no negligence or massive incompetence, no scam of any kind. The company just didn't install the battens correctly, which was very common in the 90's. Most concrete tile roofs were installed incorrectly back then, and there is now a rash of failing roofs around our state. Nobody except the most naive outsider would rely on the promise of warrantees lasting decades to do anything to help this situation. > This used to just be the way the world worked before we regulated it. Citation please. Give me an historic "pre-regulation" example of what you're claiming.