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Home records, explained › Who helps with a home › Playbooks › A general contractor

The playbook for a general contractor

Where a renovator's clients come from around a home: new owners making it theirs, reading the lot's rules before the first drawing.

The kind of business: General contractors and renovators. Page reviewed 4 Nov 2026.

A general contractor

Where clients appear2 moments

Things to hand a clientpublic samples

4 recordsto know
1 registerclients check
Free listingnever paid for
  1. Thinking about it
  2. Getting ready to sell
  3. Searching and financing
  4. The offer and its conditions
  5. Closing and moving
  6. The first 90 days
  7. Making it yours
  8. Adding a unit or renting it out
  9. Living there

Where clients come from

  1. Making it yours

    New owners read the lot's zoning, permits on record, heritage and the conservation authority before planning work. The site records page puts them on one page.

  2. Getting ready to sell

    Owners getting ready to sell read which records a buyer's side asks about first, including open permits.

What a listing shows

What a listing looks like
Your business nameGeneral contractors and renovatorsRegister checked
  • The towns you serve
  • Languages
  • What you specialise in

Your website

FreeIn the order checkedNever paid for

  • The towns served and the languages worked in.
  • An HCRA licence where the business builds new homes, and a WSIB clearance where it has workers.
  • The kinds of work done: kitchens, basements, additions, whole-house.

Listing on OfferDue is free and in the order businesses were checked, never paid for. Where a licence or register exists we check it before a listing shows.

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The records to know

OfferDue's tools for this work

Each is sold once, at a flat price that is the same for every business; none is billed monthly. One that is not open to buy yet says so on its page.

The register and the line

  • WSIB: clearance certificate searchShows whether a business is registered with the WSIB and in good standing. The WSIB says a homeowner hiring a contractor for repairs or renovations isn't required to hold a clearance; many ask for one anyway.Check the register →

What OfferDue does and doesn't do with this business:

  • No opinion on whether a project will be approved: the building and planning departments decide.
  • No interpretation of a by-law or a plan: the report says what each record shows and where it comes from.
  • Not a permit, a zoning certificate or a survey, and no substitute for any of them.
  • No fee tied to a contract, in either direction.
  • Listing is free and shows in the order businesses were checked: no business pays for a place, a label or an order on any page.
  • OfferDue takes no fee for a client who finds a listed business, and pays none to anyone for a client.
  • OfferDue's pages say what each record shows and where it comes from: never legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice.

Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. A listing on OfferDue is not a recommendation; check licences and references yourself.