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Georgia Residential Basic Contractor License â for building one and two-family homes or one-family townhouses not over three stories high, including accessory buildings. You are required to have two years working as or employed by a residential contractor or experience deemed substantially similar by licensing board.
1 Ask to see the contractor's license and make sure it is up-to-date. 2  Ask for a list of references, and call at least three of them. 3  Find out what projects the contractor has completed in the last year. 4  If hiring a GC, find out what subcontractors he or she will hire.