First-time site tour
One project.
Six useful decisions.
HomeScope helps Michigan homeowners move from an early cost question to official permit research, a shared project description, comparable bids, and records worth keeping—with no contractor lead form in the middle.
Estimate. Verify. Write. Compare. Decide. Keep.
You do not need to use every page. Enter at the decision you are making now, carry the same project context forward, and leave each step with a clearer number, source, question, or written record.
Choose your entry point
Where are you right now?
I have only an idea
Begin with Home Remodel 101, then choose a project guide when the result is clear enough to estimate.
Start at the beginning →02I already have an estimate
Read the proposal line by line before treating the total as complete or comparable.
Read my estimate →03I am checking permits
Go directly to official city or township sources. HomeScope will not invent a local requirement.
Find my local permit office →04I am collecting bids
Create one shared description, check each bid, and compare the same work side by side.
Compare written bids →The HomeScope route
Follow the project—not the menu.
Each step produces something useful for the next one. Skip steps that do not apply, but preserve the facts you have already verified.
Estimate
Start with an educational planning range. Change the community, project size, and relevant assumptions so the example reflects the project you are considering.
Verify locally
Open the directory to find the city, township, or agency that handles permits for the address. Record the official link, your questions, and the review date instead of borrowing an answer from a nearby community.
Describe one job
Turn the desired result, boundaries, assumptions, products, exclusions, and open questions into one description you can send to every bidder.
Review written bids
Check whether each proposal identifies the same work. Then compare totals only after scope, allowances, exclusions, payments, warranty, and change rules are visible.
Pressure-test the agreement
Review payment stages, allowances, contingency, signing questions, and change orders before an unclear term becomes a project dispute.
Keep one return point
Use My Project Records to move between the same project decisions without rebuilding the basic context. Print or save the records that should leave the website with you.
Context that travels
Enter the basics once. Check them everywhere.
When a contextual link includes a community, project, and quantity, HomeScope can carry those planning inputs into connected tools. Always confirm the destination before acting: a carried value is still a planning input, not an official municipal fact.
Know what HomeScope can do
Planning help without false certainty.
Organize the decision
Show assumptions, do educational math, link official sources, point out missing details, and create reusable planning records.
The project facts
Actual site conditions, product selections, contractor proposals, local permit requirements, and the final signed agreement.
Work outside a planning tool
Design, engineering, inspection, moisture diagnosis, code interpretation, legal rights, tax treatment, and other licensed or professional determinations.
Optional account
Use the whole site without signing in. Save only when useful.
A free account can keep a small project index available across devices. Public calculators, guides, the official-source directory, and device-local records remain usable without an account.
Start with the real project
Give the project one reusable return point.
Keep the community, project, and quantity together as you move through estimates, official sources, scopes, and bids.