Research
HyreRemodel research
Grouped by the question you bring: who may remodel your home and how to check, then deposits, insurance and permit fees.
Written by HyreRemodel Research Desk Primary-source research and fact checking
What you will find here
HyreRemodel publishes seven original studies on who may remodel a home and what the rules require. They cover license classes by state, the states with no license, every state’s license lookup, a seven-state contractor census, deposit caps, insurance requirements and permit fees.
Each figure carries its source and retrieval date, and gaps are published as gaps.
Who may remodel your home, and how to check
License classes, the states that issue none, the official lookups, and how many license records our store holds.
Deposits, insurance and permit fees
What state law caps, what a contractor has to carry, and what a building department charges.
The rules every study follows
Five rules, so any figure here can be checked and disagreed with.
The statute rather than a summary, the licensing board rather than a directory that copied it, the Census file rather than an article about it.
Statutes are amended and datasets revised, so every study says when each source was read.
Our contractor store covers Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and North Carolina. We never turn its 22,183 records into a national count.
Where a source could not be reached or read, the study says so and leaves the cell blank. An empty disciplinary field is not a clean record.
HyreRemodel does not design, build or inspect remodeling work, rates no company, and publishes nothing here as legal advice.
What the research desk will not publish
A 50-state contractor count built from a seven-state store. A company ranking built on review scores we have not retrieved. A Cost vs Value resale figure presented as a price for your house. A named expert, credential or project story we did not have.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (LIRA) and Remodeling magazine’s Cost vs Value report cover spending and resale value. We cite them rather than compete with them; our work is the supply side, meaning who is licensed to do the work.
Questions
Who writes HyreRemodel research?
Why do some studies cover seven states rather than fifty?
Does HyreRemodel do remodeling work?
How do I report an error in a study?
Written and audited by
HyreRemodel Research Desk
Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a remodeling contractor and not a sales floor.
We read the statute, the licensing register or the municipal fee schedule ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify.
This program is new, and the counts below are small: they are what we have actually published, not what we intend to.
- 7
- studies published
- 7
- states in the contractor store we measure against
- 264
- source documents linked from these pages, 101 of them on .gov domains
- 22,183
- license records measured September 5, 2026
How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Licensing facts come from the issuing board or the statute that creates the credential. Permit-fee facts come from the municipality that publishes the schedule. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we open the source and record the date.
- Our own store is titled to the states it covers. We hold verified contractor records for seven states. An asset that rests on those records is titled to those states. National claims rest on federal or state-agency data (Census, BLS, EPA), never on our counts.
- Absence of a record is not a finding about the company. A board that does not publish disciplinary history in a form we retrieved is excluded from any “clean record” claim. Unable to verify is not unlicensed. Not required is not not carried.
- Fact, calculation, analysis and recommendation stay labelled. A statute is a source fact. A count we derived from our store is a HyreRemodel calculation. What that count means is analysis. What a homeowner should do next is a recommendation.
- We do not remodel homes, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favorable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Data as of September 5, 2026 (contractor store). Authorship on this site is organizational: the analysis belongs to the desk rather than to a named individual, and we do not publish credentials we do not hold. Our editorial policy sets out how we source, date and correct what we publish.
Sources & retrieval dates
Planning a remodel of your own?
The studies describe the rules across states. For your own project, start with the scope, the permits and the bids, and tell us about it when you are ready.
HyreRemodel does not do remodeling work. Nothing in this research is a quote, a license check for a named job, or legal advice. Check the issuing board and the building department for your address.