{"id":10953,"date":"2019-06-28T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:04:20","slug":"general-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/general-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Job of a General Contractors and How Can You Find a Good One?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home renovation spending is on the rise, with the U.S. market alone shelling out more than $400 billion annually<\/a> on home repairs and upgrades. And a recent study found that 9 out of 10 homeowners have plans to remodel<\/a> their homes at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

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With all this building going on, good help is increasingly harder to find\u2014which is a huge problem for homeowners spending anywhere from $18,453 to $74,990 on multi-room remodels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re dropping that kind of cash on a major renovation to your most valuable asset, you need to know that the job is going to be done right. If it\u2019s not, it\u2019ll cost you in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wrong general contractor could actually hurt your home sale, especially if they do shoddy work, or poor management leads to endless delays,\u201d advises Monica Graves<\/a>, an investor-friendly agent in Denver, Colorado<\/a>, who has a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) certification and ranks among the top 1% of brokers nationally.<\/p>\n

So, how do you avoid starring in a home improvement horror story?<\/a><\/p>\n

By hiring the right laborers for the job<\/a> with the skills to do the work you need done. That right worker may or may not need to be a general contractor<\/a>, depending on the size and scope of the renovation.<\/p>\n

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What does a general contractor do?<\/h2>\n

A general contractor<\/a> is basically the boss of the jobsite.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral contractors, or GCs as we call them, have a crew of builders who can do multiple types of projects within your home,\u201d says Graves. \u201cFor more complicated projects, they\u2019ll hire out the work to say an electrician, or a plumber.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the home improvement project leader, your GC will:<\/p>\n