The City of Gahanna requires home improvement contractors to file a $5,000 bond to register and work on residential improvements in the city. At 3% the math lands below our floor, so it’s $275 flat, and registration bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















Registration bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Registration bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your home improvement contractor registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which rounds up to our $275 minimum. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
The City of Gahanna registers home improvement contractors who perform residential improvement work — remodeling, additions, and repairs — within the city. The registration bond is a consumer-and-city-protection guarantee that you’ll follow the city’s contractor requirements and the building code.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Gahanna (the obligee), with homeowners as the protected parties. If a contractor violates the city’s home improvement requirements or leaves work that harms a property owner, a claim can be made against the $5,000 bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Contractors who do clean work and follow the code treat the bond as a registration formality, not a risk.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.