About us
Where Starkville gets built.
BuildStarkville.com is the local marketplace for building and remodeling homes — connecting the people who want work done with the contractors who do it. Homeowners and landlords, owner-builders, general contractors, and the trades who show up: everyone who builds, on one platform, on the same side.
For homeowners, landlords & owner-builders
Hiring out a remodel, running a portfolio of rentals, or building your own home? Tell us about the project and we turn it into a real request for bids — local contractors price the actual work, so you get real numbers instead of a sales call, and you always know who you're hiring: license and insurance are on file. Follow the whole job from bid to final walkthrough with the same project-management tools the pros use.
For contractors & the trades
The project-management and bidding tools are free, and they're yours to run your business — organize scopes, schedule crews, put work out to your subs or win new work bidding locally, and keep every sign-off in one place. Your license, insurance, and finished work build a reputation that follows you from job to job. And no junk leads, ever: we don't sell your phone number to whoever pays the most.
Why we're different
The incumbents make their money selling contact info — that's why homeowners field a dozen calls and contractors pay for dead-end leads. We don't sell leads. BuildStarkville.com earns only when real work actually gets done, which puts us on the same side as everyone building: get the job done well, for a fair price.
Where we're headed
We're building toward more than a better place to find each other. Payment protection that holds funds until milestones are finished — so owners are covered and contractors get paid faster than the 30-to-60-day wait they put up with today. Reviews you can trust because they're tied to real, finished, paid jobs. And a lasting record of the home itself — plans, permits, warranties, and every contractor who touched it — that stays with the house when it sells. That's the platform we're building, one Starkville project at a time.
Why we built it
Founder Mo Balaa built his own home and saw how broken the process is — for the family building it and for the good contractors trying to do right by them. He started BuildStarkville.com to fix it for the whole local building community, starting here in Starkville and building it out for the towns like it across the Southeast.