Remove Fake Angi & HomeAdvisor Reviews

How to remove an Angi review, starting from what the reviewer agreed to

The fastest way to remove an Angi review is to stop arguing about the job and start checking the promises the reviewer made when they posted. Angi's Terms of Use set out what a person warrants about every review they submit, and each of those warranties is testable against your own records. A dispute that names one of them and attaches proof is a different document from a dispute that says the customer is lying.

These are the commitments in Angi's own terms, which apply to reviews of service contractors and to the health and wellness providers Angi also lists.

• The review is based on the reviewer's actual first-hand experience with the provider being reviewed, or on an individual's first-hand experience with a health or wellness provider where the reviewer has the legal authority to disclose it.
• The review is accurate, honest, truthful and complete in all respects.
• The reviewer does not work for, own any interest in, or serve on the board of directors of the provider being reviewed, and is not related to that provider by blood, adoption or marriage.
• The reviewer received no form of compensation to post the review.
• The review is thorough and thoughtful. Angi gives its own example of what falls short, describing a contractor as he or she is great with no additional commentary.
• The review does not comment on other users or on other users' reviews, and it carries no hyperlinks.
• The review is not infringing, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, obscene, profane, hateful, offensive, harmful, vulgar, distasteful or defamatory, and does not violate any law or right of another party.
• Separately, Angi's user conduct rules prohibit misleading others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a review or rating, knowingly submitting false or misleading information, posting irrelevant content, repeatedly posting the same or similar content, and taking any action that would undermine the review and rating process.

Angi and HomeAdvisor are one company, which is why a review follows you

This is not marketing shorthand, it is written into the terms. Angie's List, Inc. does business as Angi, and the platform's own agreements bind users of the sites and apps related to Angi, Inc., Angie's List, Inc. doing business as Angi Ads, HomeAdvisor, Inc. doing business as Angi Leads, and Handy Technologies, Inc., treating all of them collectively as one company. The same terms name Angi.com and HomeAdvisor.com as service marks owned by that company.

The detail contractors care about is that HomeAdvisor, Inc. is the entity behind Angi Leads. The business selling you leads and the business publishing the review about you are the same company, which is also why a homeowner who came through a paid lead and never hired you is still a user of the platform that rates you.

Practically, it means one filing built properly covers both sides rather than running two separate fights, and it means your lead records are platform records. The trail showing a request came in, a quote went out, and no job followed sits in the same ecosystem the review lives in.

Why a self-filed dispute stalls

Angi reserves the decision to itself in plain language. Its terms state that Angi may, in its sole discretion, choose to remove or not to remove reviews and ratings once published, and that it has no obligation to screen, preview, monitor or approve content while reserving the right to review and delete anything that in its sole judgment breaches the agreement.

There is no appeal written into that. The route the terms name for a user who believes content violates them is to report it through Member Support, and the same section warns that a person may be liable for damages including costs and attorneys' fees for unlawful misrepresentations. That is a reason to file something narrow and accurate rather than something angry.

An escalation is the report with the record attached. The clause the review breaks, named exactly. The lead record, quote, invoice or job ticket that shows whether work happened. The message thread where a demand was made. The reviewer's history where it shows an account moving between your direct competitors. A report that asserts the account looks fake with nothing behind it is the version that comes back unchanged.

How an Angi removal runs, day by day

Most cases close in the 5 to 10 day window on this page, and each review is assessed on its own before anything is filed.

• Day 0. Every review you flagged is read against Angi's terms and against your job history, and reviews with no clause behind them are named as ineligible before anything is billed.
• Days 1 to 2. Evidence is assembled per review. Lead records, quotes, invoices, job tickets and message threads, with particular attention to anything dated before the review appeared.
• Days 2 to 4. The report goes in naming the specific warranty or conduct rule the review breaks, with the documentation attached rather than summarised.
• Days 4 to 10. Angi assesses. The reviewer may be contacted to verify the interaction, which is standard for a disputed review and is not attributed to you.
• On removal. The review comes off the profile and the star average recalculates without it, across both the Angi and HomeAdvisor sides of the listing.

What removal costs, and what it does not buy

The price on this page is the whole price. $175 per review, billed only once the review is confirmed gone, with no charge for the assessment and no charge for a review that stays up.

What that does not buy is volume. Removal subtracts a review, it does not add one, so a profile that was thin before a removal is still thin after it. Contractors with a dozen reviews feel every single removal in the average, and contractors with hundreds barely see it, which is worth knowing before you decide how much of the problem a removal is going to solve.

When the review is real and stays up

A homeowner describing work you actually did is protected on every platform, and we say so during the assessment instead of billing you to fight it. What changes the picture is the weight of recent work around it.

RepBoost is our review collection product, which adds new reviews on a schedule so a bad month stops being the newest thing a homeowner reads. RepWatch monitors your Angi and HomeAdvisor profiles and alerts you when a new review or a rating change lands.

The reply is the part you control outright. Short, calm and factual, without the customer's address or job details, because those can breach the platform's own rules and create a second problem on a profile that already had one.