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Local contractor lead alerts near you
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Get Local Contractor Leads While It Is Still an Idea
LeadHunter USA is a local Facebook group monitoring app for general contractors. It alerts you when homeowners in your area are asking for help with kitchen and bath remodels, additions, basement finishing, whole-house renovations, and permit work.
LeadHunter USA sends each alert as a push notification to your own phone, on iOS or Android. LeadHunter USA costs $75 a month flat, whether you watch three local groups or thirty. LeadHunter USA is read-only: it never posts, comments or messages anyone, on anyone’s behalf.
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Read-only: runs on your own computer, never postsYour computer stays on while it watchesA few local groups beat twenty broad onesCommon questions →LeadHunter USAJust now
New contractor lead
Remodel project in your area
"Thinking about opening up the kitchen wall. Not sure who we should even be calling first."
remodelplanning
Found while the request is fresh
Pushed to your phone
Filtered for general contractor jobs
Homeowner requests
Lead style
Minutes
Alert speed
7 days free
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How it works
Simple setup, fast alerts
Choose where you work and what jobs you want. LeadHunter USA keeps watch and sends the right matches to your phone.
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Choose general contractor job types
Focus on remodels, additions, basements, renovations, permit work, and the projects you actually take.
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Get alerts while it is fresh
When a matching homeowner request appears, your phone gets an alert so you can reach out quickly.
Lead examples
The kind of jobs general contractors miss every week
The largest jobs start as the least specific posts — somebody describing what they want and asking who they should be talking to.
Examples written in the style of real neighborhood posts. Names and details are made up.
Want to open up the kitchen wall
"Thinking about taking down the wall between the kitchen and living room. Who do we even call first?"
remodelstructuralplanning
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Finishing the basement
"About 700 square feet with a bathroom. Looking for someone who handles the whole thing including permits."
basementpermitsproject
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Adding a room over the garage
"Need more space and cannot move. Anyone done an addition and been happy with who did it?"
additionreferralbig project
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Contractor walked off mid-job
"Half-finished bathroom and he stopped answering. Looking for someone to take over and finish it."
rescue jobbathroomurgent
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Converting the garage into a studio
"Want to turn the detached garage into a rentable studio. Is that even allowed here?"
ADUconversionquestion
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Two bathrooms at once
"Doing both bathrooms together to get it over with. Want someone who can manage the whole schedule."
bathroommulti-roomquote
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Why it is different
You are not buying old leads from a marketplace
Homeowners often ask for help once, then hire whoever makes them feel confident first. LeadHunter USA helps you spot local requests faster, without sitting on your phone all day.
LeadHunter USA is not a lead marketplace. You pay one flat monthly price for the software, we do not sell leads at all, and there is no per-lead charge.
For scale: one general contracting lead on Google Local Services Ads cost $49.76 in Q2 2026. LeadHunter USA is $75 a month, flat, however many you get. See what a lead costs in every trade.
- No lead limits
- No contracts
- Alerts in seconds to minutes
- Mobile push notifications
- Profession-specific filtering
- 7-day free trial
Projects LeadHunter USA can catch
Built around real local homeowner language.
- Kitchen remodels
- Bathroom remodels
- Room additions
- Basement finishing
- Whole-house renovation
- Garage conversions and ADUs
- Structural and load-bearing work
- Permit and inspection projects
The biggest jobs start as the vaguest questions
A remodel does not begin with a request for a contractor. It begins with somebody wondering out loud whether the wall between the kitchen and the living room can come down, and asking who they should even be talking to. There is no scope, no budget, and no trade named — which is precisely why it never reaches a lead marketplace in that form.
By the time it does reach one, the project has a shape, the homeowner has done their reading, and you are the third contractor to walk through the same kitchen. A general contracting lead costs $49.76 on Google Local Services Ads at that stage. The version six weeks earlier, when it was still a question in a group, cost nothing and had no competition.
Being early in this trade is worth more than in any other, and not because of urgency — nothing here is urgent. It is because the contractor who helps someone think through what they actually want is rarely the one who then loses the bid to a stranger with a spreadsheet.
General contracting cost-per-lead figure: Google Local Services Ads, Q2 2026 — 4,459 leads across $258,867 of real US contractor spend. Published by 99 Calls. The full table for all 21 trades is on its own page.
Work that lands beside general contractor jobs
The same neighborhood post often mentions more than one trade.
Questions
Straight answers before you try it
Do I need a credit card to start?+
No. LeadHunter USA offers a 7-day free trial and does not ask for a credit card to start it. Nothing is charged unless a plan is chosen at the end of the trial.
Is this only for general contractor businesses?+
This page is built for general contractors, but LeadHunter USA also supports other local service trades. You choose your profession and job filters during setup.
Where do the leads come from?+
LeadHunter USA watches the local Facebook groups you have already joined: town, neighborhood and HOA groups. It checks each post against your general contractor job types before anything is sent. A matching request arrives as a push notification on your own phone, in seconds to minutes.
Will this get my Facebook account banned?+
LeadHunter USA runs on your own computer, not on our servers, and it only reads. It never posts, comments, likes or messages, and it never contacts a homeowner for you. You sign in to Facebook yourself, so we never see your password, and there are no bot accounts of ours sitting in your groups — it sees what you would see if you scrolled the feed yourself, on the machine you already use. Nobody can guarantee what a platform will do, and any vendor who gives you a guarantee is overselling, but read-only on your own login on your own computer is the least exposed way this can work.
Do I have to leave my computer on?+
Yes. The LeadHunter USA desktop app is the part that does the watching, and it needs to be running. It installs on Windows or Mac, runs quietly in the background while you work, and pushes matches to your phone — there are no tabs to keep open. If the computer sleeps, the watching stops until it wakes. The phone app is where you read the leads, not where they are found.
What if I am not in many local Facebook groups yet?+
Then there is not much to watch, and that is the honest limit of how LeadHunter USA works — it sees your groups, not everybody’s. Most people fix it in ten minutes by joining the neighborhood groups for the areas they already work in. Those are where "anyone know a good plumber?" actually gets posted, and being a member of a few of the right local ones beats being in twenty broad ones.
Are there lead limits?+
No. LeadHunter USA charges $75 a month flat and includes every matching lead it finds, with no per-lead fee and no cap. The same $75 applies whether you watch three local groups or thirty.
How does LeadHunter USA compare with Groups Watcher, HuddleWatch or One Stop Social for general contractors?+
What Groups Watcher, HuddleWatch and One Stop Social say about their own products, in their own words and checked daily, is at leadhunterusa.com/lead-alert-tools-compared. LeadHunter USA covers local Facebook groups, sends each match as a push notification to your phone, runs in its own app rather than your browser, and charges $75 a month flat with no limit on groups.
How is this different from Angi or Thumbtack?+
Different model. LeadHunter USA does not sell leads and is not a lead marketplace. LeadHunter USA charges $75 a month for software that watches the groups you have already joined, with no per-lead charge. The post itself is public to that group, so being early is the advantage rather than ownership.
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