What Twin Cities remodelers disclose before you call

1. Identity details are common; money details are rare. Of 28 remodelers, 22 name an owner or team, 20 show a license number and 20 state where they work. Only 9 mention a design fee, 9 mention a warranty and 1 states a minimum or starting budget.
2. When a fee or warranty is mentioned, the terms are usually left out. 2 of the 9 that mention a design fee give the amount or share. 3 of the 9 that mention a warranty say what it covers or for how long. 4 more give a typical cost range for a kind of project without calling it a minimum.
3. One firm covers all seven items on its own site, and 18 of 28 cover three to five. The number of items found per firm ranges from 1 to 7 of 7: 2 firms with 1, 5 firms with 2, 7 firms with 3, 8 firms with 4, 3 firms with 5, 2 firms with 6, 1 firm with 7. This counts what a site says, not how well a firm builds, and the table below gives no firm a total.

Firms counted

28: 17 listed on this site and 11 from a wider sample

Collected

Nov 6, 2026

Pages read per firm

3 to 19, median 11, from the firm's own website

Wider sample rule

Every profile typed REMODELER in the Parade of Homes Builders & Remodelers directory (https://www.paradeofhomes.org/homes/builders), listed across all 13 directory pages on 2026-11-06, minus firms already among the 17 listed and firms based outside the seven-county metro area.

Calculation

Counts are computed from the raw data file by scripts/research/disclosures.mjs. Every yes in the table links to the page it came from.

Not collected

Lake West Development: only 1 page loaded and 2 others did not, so it is not counted. Its site describes land development more than remodeling.

What each item means

• License number shown: a Minnesota contractor license number appears on the site.
• Process described: a page or section sets out the steps from first contact to finished work, or the menu links to one.
• Design fee mentioned: the site says design work is charged for, or names a design agreement or retainer. We note where an amount is given.
• Minimum or starting budget stated: the site gives a figure projects start at. A typical cost range is counted separately.
• Warranty mentioned: the firm says it offers a warranty. A customer review mentioning one does not count.
• Service area stated: the site says where the firm works, or links to a service-area page.
• Named owner or team: the site names the owner or team members, with titles.

Firms are in alphabetical order within each group. "Not found" means not found on the pages we read. A yes links to the page where we found it. Reading is on Nov 6, 2026 unless a row says otherwise.

Inclusion rule. The 17 firms listed on this site, plus a wider sample: every profile typed Remodeler in the Parade of Homes Builders & Remodelers directory (Housing First Minnesota and the Builders Association of the Twin Cities), read across all 13 directory pages on 2026-11-06, leaving out firms already listed here and firms based outside the metro area.

• Only each firm's own website was read, up to 19 pages per firm, found by following its menu links. A firm can say these things in a proposal, a phone call or a page we did not reach.
• Not finding something means it was not on the pages we read. It does not mean the firm hides it or lacks it.
• The wider sample is a directory of firms that chose to take part in a builders association showcase. It is not every remodeler, and it may lean toward larger, more established firms.
• Whether a firm states something is not a measure of the quality of its work. The results are not a ranking and no firm has a score.
• Each item was found by a text search of saved pages, and a short list of cases was then read one at a time. Wording that does not use the usual terms can be missed.

Data. Download the table as a CSV file. It has one row per firm, the date it was read and the source address. A script computes every figure from saved copies of the source files.