General contractor or do own sub-contracting

[Samson Tefera]

Hi,

So I bought my very first property. I wrote down every single material I need for the rehab, and I first contacted a general contractor. He gave me a bid, but I thought labor was way too high, in other words, the total bid he gave me was double the total dollar amount I came with for all materials I need. He was going to purchase the materials himself. Since I don't have much experience, I didn't know if the number made sense. I am trying to collect more bids for comparison, but just wanted to know what BP folks thought about this.

when he first gave me the bid, I didn't have my list of materials, I pretty much told him what I wanted and he was going to pick out and purchase the materials and include labor cost to the bid.

Thank you.