Welcome to the Georgia Certified Professional Home Builder^SM (CPHB) Guide, your convenient and comprehensive source for homebuilder information in Georgia.

This guide offers detailed, searchable information on CPHB members, where they build, warranties offered, certifications and inspection guidelines.

Only the CPHB Find a Home Builder Guide offers the in-depth information and resources you need to make the right decision about the builder of your next home.

Reasons why a consumer would want to buy from a CPHB Member:

• The mission of the Certified Professional Home Builder Program is to connect the public with Home Builders who are dedicated to maintaining the highest level of professionalism, customer service, and homeowner satisfaction.
  
• To become a Certified Professional Home Builder a builder must have 3 or more years of building experience.
  
• A Certified Professional Home Builder must derive their main source of income from home building.
  
• All Certified Professional Home Builders must build to the standards set forth in the Homeowner Handbook or their company’s equivalent.
  
• Have an Approved Limited Warranty.
  
• A Certified Professional Home Builder must offer mandatory binding arbitration.
  
• All Certified Professional Home Builders must maintain appropriate insurance coverages, including builders risk, general liability and other insurance required by law, i.e., workers’ compensation.
  
• In order to become a member of the Certified Professional Home Builder Program, the builder must provide written references from a financial institution, homeowners, trade contractors and material suppliers.
  
• All Certified Professional Home Builders must maintain membership in their local home builders association and also abide by the National Association of Home Builders’ Code of Ethics.
  
• In order to become and stay a member of the Certified Professional Home Builder Program all builders must maintain a certain number of building permits a year or maintain a certain cumulative dollar revenue from home building.
  
• All members of the Certified Professional Home Builder Program must attend an orientation session presented by The Housing Institute, Inc. regarding what certification entails, including their duties as a Certified Professional Home Builder.
  
• All Certified Professional Home Builders must complete 16 hours of continuing education a year and must apply for recertification annually.
  

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