re: On average, what is a residential General Contactors fee/percent?

quote:

---

Just a bid. Cost to build came in around $98 s/f and then on top of that the GC was going to make another 45k at 17%.

Being that we paid 8% on a similar build a few years ago I thought it was extremely high.

---

Tell him to negotiate what he thinks is a fair rate (17 sounds reasonable to me in the current economy) and then offer a 1-2% bonus for an on time project.