re: Need a licensed contractor to rebuild my home

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You can no longer serve as your own contractor in the state of LA, you have to be a licensed contractor. You cannot get a building permit yourself with the intention of subbing out work any longer, that's why they told him that.

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So the government decided that I can't hire people to do stuff to my own house? That is crazy.

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You can no longer serve as your own contractor in the state of LA, you have to be a licensed contractor.

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This is wrong.

La. R.S. 37:2157 provides exemptions from the necessity of having a contractors license.

Section (A)(2) of that statute provides an exemption to "Owners of property who supervise, superintend, oversee, direct, or in any manner assume charge of the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, movement, demolition, putting up, tearing down, or maintenance of any building, railroad excavation, project, development, improvement, plan facility, or any other construction undertaking, on such property, for use by such owner and which will not be for sale or rent, and the control of access to which shall be controlled by the owner so that only employees and nonpublic invitees are allowed access."

As long as he isn't selling or renting his house, he can act as his own GC.