Everything here is for the part that happens before the bids come back — writing a scope contractors can price the same way, and knowing what to ask when they do. No account, and only one of them wants an email.
Interactive
Pick your trades, get the list. Nothing to download and nothing to install.
Pick the trades in your job and see the line items a complete bid covers — plus the ones that quietly go unmentioned.
Built from the same scope categories RehabRocket uses to read bids. Free, no account, nothing to download.
Open the toolPick your trades and get a printable list of questions to ask before you sign — payment, permits, allowances, and who is actually on site.
The generic version of what RehabRocket writes for your specific bids. Free, no account, printable.
Open the toolDownloads
Send the same scope to every contractor and most of the comparison problem disappears before it starts.
The document you send contractors before they bid, so the bids that come back are actually comparable.
What’s in itA one-page printable list to have in your hand on the phone or at the walkthrough.
What’s in itPayment milestones tied to completed work rather than to dates on a calendar.
What’s in itReading
Four of them. They get updated rather than added to — there is no blog and no publishing schedule.
Three bids on the same house, written three different ways. A method for lining them up so the cheapest number is actually the cheapest job.
7 min read
The line items a thorough bid covers for each trade — and the ones that quietly go unmentioned and turn up later as change orders.
9 min read
What to look at twice: round numbers, missing licences, front-loaded payment schedules, and the bid that is cheaper for a reason nobody has told you yet.
6 min read
An allowance is a placeholder, not a price. How to spot them, how to size them, and why two bids with identical totals can be $9,000 apart.
6 min read
If the bids are already in your inbox, the demo will be faster than any of this.