Home Solutions Appoints Charles P. McCusker to Its Board of Directors

DALLAS, Dec. 22  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Home Solutions of America, Inc. (AMEX:HOM) (the "Company"), a provider of recovery, restoration and rebuilding/remodeling services, announced today that it has appointed Charles P. McCusker to its Board of Directors.

Mr. McCusker is the co-founder and managing director of Patriot Capital, L.P., a private equity fund focused on service and specialty manufacturing industries.  Prior to founding Patriot Capital, Mr. McCusker was a partner in the ServiceMaster Venture Capital Fund, a fund focused on growth equity investments in emerging service companies.  Mr. McCusker also founded and eventually became the President of a division of the ServiceMaster Company. Mr. McCusker led The ServiceMaster Home Service Center, a joint venture with Kleiner Perkins, which was a value-added reseller of home-improvement services to the residential homeowner community. The business grew to over $50 million in customer level sales under Mr. McCusker's leadership. The joint venture ultimately became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ServiceMaster Company.

"We are pleased that Mr. McCusker has joined the Company's Board of Directors," said Frank Fradella, Chairman and CEO of Home Solutions. "His experience as a successful investor and leader in our industry should prove invaluable as we continue to grow the company organically and through acquisition."

Home Solutions is a provider of recovery, restoration and rebuilding/remodeling services to commercial and residential areas that are (i) prone to flooding, hurricanes, tornados, fires or other naturally occurring and repetitive weather related emergencies; and/or (ii) experiencing robust housing development. The Company has operations in California, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina through its five subsidiaries, Cornerstone Building and Remodeling, Southern Exposure, P.W. Stephens, Home Solutions Restoration of Louisiana and Fiber Seal Systems. Cornerstone is a leading supplier and installer of granite materials for kitchens and baths to national home centers, as well as national builders and remodeling companies, in the southeastern United States. Southern Exposure and related companies is a provider of cabinet and countertop installation services in the Florida marketplace. P.W. Stephens provides mold and asbestos remediation services, and fire and water restoration services in California, Florida and Louisiana. Home Solutions Restoration of Louisiana provides Recovery Restoration Services in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and Fiber Seal Systems is a national licensor of cleaning and fabric protection businesses.

For more information on Home Solutions, please see the Company's website at http://www.homcorp.com/.

Statements included in this update that are not historical in nature are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the safe harbor provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by Public Law 104-67. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words including "anticipate," "believe," "intends," "estimates," "expect," and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward-looking statements including, without limitation, those relating to the Company's future business prospects are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, due to factors such as those relating to economic, governmental, technological, and other risks and factors identified from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the SEC.

Contact: Michael Wachs of CEOcast, Inc., [phone], for Home Solutions of America, Inc. 

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CONTACT:  Michael Wachs of CEOcast, Inc., [phone], for Home

Solutions of America, Inc.



Web site:  http://www.homcorp.com/ 

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