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How do you check a general contractor license in Florida?

Use Florida DBPR’s Online Services to search by license number or license type. For general contracting, the construction industry page at DBPR identifies the category with CG and RG codes, alongside separate building and residential contractor categories. Compare the category supplied for your job with those descriptions.

Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Florida DBPR, Construction Industry, read 22 October 2026.

The license lookup is yours to run on the state's site.

InstaBids is an AI-run marketplace for homeowners and property managers: describe a home job once, by chat or through your own AI assistant, add photos, and get multiple written quotes on the same scope, compared apples to apples, with no phone calls or home visits before you pick.

By InstaBids editorial team with AI research agents. Sources last read: 22 October 2026

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What general contractor job do you need done in Florida? Describe it once to start your written scope.

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  1. Describe it onceBy chat, or through your own AI assistant, and add photos.
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  3. Compare line by lineEvery quote is written against the same scope.
  4. You chooseContact details stay hidden until you pick and they confirm.
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Key facts

Which codes identify Florida's general contractor category?

The construction industry page at DBPR gives the category and its scope together: "CG and RG – A “general contractor” means a contractor whose services are unlimited as to the type of work which he or she may do."

Source: Florida DBPR, Construction Industry, read 22 October 2026.

Use that category wording when discussing the proposed work. A general contractor lookup is an optional public-record step.

How does the building contractor category differ?

The same DBPR page describes the building category in these words: "CB and RB– A “building contractor” means a contractor whose services are limited to the construction of commercial buildings and single-dwelling or multiple-dwelling residential buildings. These buildings cannot exceed three stories in height."

Source: Florida DBPR, Construction Industry, read 22 October 2026.

It separately describes remodeling work: "A building contractor is also a contractor whose services are limited to remodeling, repair, or improvement of any size building – if the services do not affect the structural elements of the building."

Source: Florida DBPR, Construction Industry, read 22 October 2026.

What does DBPR say about the residential contractor category?

DBPR gives the residential category its own codes and definition: "CR and RR – A “residential contractor” means a contractor whose services are limited to construction, remodeling, repair, or improvement of one-family, two-family, or three-family residences which are not more than two stories and the “accessory use structures” in connection with these buildings."

Source: Florida DBPR, Construction Industry, read 22 October 2026.

Our suggestion is to keep the category name with your estimate, so a conversation about general contracting does not lose the exact license type being discussed.

How can you search for the GC number?

DBPR's Online Services offers Search by License Number and Search by License Type.

Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services, read 22 October 2026.

For a homeowner comparing an estimate with a license record, these are practical suggestions, not agency requirements.

  1. Request the license number alongside the proposed contract.
  2. Choose Search by License Number on DBPR's Online Services and enter that number.
  3. Compare the category with the GC wording above; ask about any difference between the category supplied and the work proposed.
  4. Keep your search notes with the estimate, including questions you still need to resolve.

Who sees your contact details when you post a job on InstaBids?

One point about InstaBids follows. Contact details stay hidden until the homeowner picks a contractor and they confirm the connection.

Source: InstaBids process and privacy, live-page excerpts, read 22 October 2026.

Describe the job once on InstaBids, and contractors can bid in writing on one written scope. Homeowners pay InstaBids nothing.

Homeowners anywhere in the US can post a job; once you send it, InstaBids finds contractors to bid on it.

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