The Virginia Home-Services RegisterKept by Marty Hobbs / Est. 2026
The honest explainer
How listings and badges work
Read this once and you will know exactly what everything on this site means, and just as important, what it does not mean.
It is an open directory
Any home-services business in Virginia can sign up and get listed. We do not hand-pick who gets in. That means a listing here is not a seal of approval from us. It means a business filled out a form.
Start to finish
How a listing gets on the page
1
A business applies
Any Virginia home-services company fills out the form. Free.
2
We check the license
We look up their contractor license with the state and confirm it is active.
3
They add the badge
A small badge goes on their site, linking back to their verified profile.
4
The listing goes live
Once we confirm the badge, the listing publishes with the License Verified mark.
What License Verified means
When a business gives us a Virginia contractor license number, we look it up and confirm it is active. If it checks out, the listing gets a License Verified badge showing the license number and the date we checked it.
That badge means one thing. On that date, that license was active with the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. It is not a promise about quality, workmanship, pricing, insurance, or whether the company will show up on time. A license record does not even prove the company carries insurance, so you still need to confirm that yourself.
What Featured means
A Featured listing paid for placement. It is advertising, and we label it Advertising every time you see it. Paying to be Featured does not earn the License Verified badge, does not move a business up any kind of merit ranking, and does not let anyone bury a complaint. It buys visibility, nothing else.
What we do, and what we do not
What we do
Check that a license is active, and date it.
Show listings in a neutral, stated order.
Label advertising as advertising.
Say plainly who is behind the site.
What we do not
Rank, rate, or score companies.
Publish a best-of or a top-ten.
Sell reviews or host them at launch.
Let anyone pay to bury a complaint.
How listings are ordered
On a city or trade page, listings are shown in a neutral order, alphabetical or by distance, with the basis stated on the page. License-verified listings may be grouped first because verification is a plain fact, not our opinion of who is better. Featured listings are labeled and kept separate from that order.
