Rebuild Cost Calculator

Editorial Team

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Who writes this site

Rebuild Cost Calculator is operated and edited under the pseudonymous editorial entity Rebuild Cost Calculator Editorial, backed by a sole-member LLC. Methodology, engine, and content are authored in-house. Construction-cost and insurance-statute review is done in collaboration with subject-matter researchers under a freelance editorial process; named bylines are added on pages where a specific contributor reviewed the math or the citations.

Editorial standards

Every numeric claim ties to a primary source — federal statute, agency document, BLS or Census data release, ICC publication, or state-government publication. Where we paraphrase, we link the source so readers can compare; where we quote, the quoted text is character-exact to the source as retrieved on the page's last-updated date. We do not copy-paste from third-party explanatory sites (insurance-industry blogs, broker marketing pages); those are referenced only where they provide aggregated data that has no primary equivalent.

Corrections policy

If you spot an error — a $/sqft figure off by more than $1, a misattributed citation, a broken link, an outdated statute reference, or a metro modifier that conflicts with a current Census Building Permits release — email hello@rebuildcostcalc.comwith the page URL and the source you'd like us to compare against. We aim to reply within five business days and to issue the correction within two weeks of the report being verified. Corrected pages get a "Last updated" date bump and the correction is noted in our internal changelog.

Update cadence

  • · Inflation index (BLS PPI WPUIP2311001 / WPUIP2311102 via FRED): monthly, automated.
  • · Metro modifiers (Census Building Permits Survey): monthly, automated.
  • · Wage cross-validator (BLS QCEW NAICS-23): annually, automated.
  • · State DOI URL validation: quarterly, automated.
  • · NAHB regional baseline (Cost of Constructing a Home): biennially, manual.
  • · ICC Building Valuation Data ratio cross-check: biennially, manual.
  • · FEMA NFIP Risk Rating 2.0 profiles + state replacement-cost statutes: annually, manual.

Funding

The site is funded by display advertising via Google AdSense (see privacy). We do not sell insurance, accept carrier or broker commissions, accept referral fees from appraisers, public adjusters, or replacement-cost-estimating-software vendors (Xactware, CoreLogic 360Value, RSMeans), or take payment for editorial placements. We do not pay for backlinks and we do not accept guest posts. Editorial decisions are independent of advertising revenue.

Conflict of interest

The operator's primary income source is separate from this site. No member of the editorial team holds licensing, employment, or equity in any insurance carrier, broker, public-adjuster firm, appraisal company, contractor, or replacement-cost-estimating-software vendor.

Contact

Editorial questions: hello@rebuildcostcalc.com.