Bells, TN · Free to list, free to stay listed

Grow your contracting business in Bells.

A free public listing, a referral program that turns past customers into new work, and leads from other contractors who already vetted the job. Built for the people who actually do the work.

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The numbers

The Bells home-services market

Bells has about 2,373 residents, down about 4% since 2020.

473
Owner-occupied homes

About 47% of Bells's housing is owner-occupied. Owners are the ones who pay for their own roofs, paint and HVAC — they're who a referral program reaches.

1994
Median year built

The typical Bells home is around 32 years old. Housing stock ages on a predictable cycle, and roofs, systems and exteriors come due in waves rather than all at once.

$169,000
Median home value

What homes are worth shapes what owners will spend maintaining them.

$56,027
Median household income

Household income is the other half of that picture — together they tell you which jobs a market actually supports.

Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates and Population Estimates Program.

The place

About Bells.

Bells sits in Crockett County at the junction that defines the town: U.S. Route 70A and U.S. Route 79 run together through Bells, coming from Brownsville to the southwest and continuing toward Humboldt to the northeast, while State Route 88 connects Alamo and Jackson. The South Fork of the Forked Deer River passes just south of town. For residential teams, Bells reads less like a spread-out suburb than a compact service area organized around those roads and the rural addresses tied back to them.

The town’s name goes back to brothers John and William Bell, who acquired the land in the late 1820s; when the city was founded in 1855 it was called Bells Depot, then incorporated in 1868 before “Depot” was dropped in 1880. That older name still fits a place built around movement through Crockett County. PictSweet Farms is headquartered in Bells and remains a major local employer, while the now-defunct West Tennessee Okra Festival—held in August with a horse show, beauty pageant, street carnival, and other events—marks the kind of agricultural season that long shaped the town’s calendar.

Local detail drawn from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.

Your free listing

Get found in Bells.

Every contractor on LeadChuck gets a public profile page — your trades, your service area, and your rating from other contractors on the network. It's indexed, it's free, and it stays free. If you're the first Bells contractor listed in your trade, that page is yours.

What you get

Four ways to get more work.

Everything below is in the same free account. Use the parts you want.

A public listing

An indexed profile page with your trades, service area and peer rating. Free, permanently.

How listings work →

A referral program

A permanent referral link for every past customer, and an unconditional thank-you gift card when they confirm a referral.

How referrals work →

Email marketing

Seasonal reminders that keep you top of mind with the customers you already have.

How email works →

Deals

Offers you can put in front of homeowners in your area when you want to fill a gap in the schedule.

How deals work →
Tennessee licensing

Know your license before you bid.

Tennessee requires a contractor's license before you bid or quote a price on any job totaling $25,000 or more, materials and labor together. That applies to the contractor running the job, and separately to electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and masonry work whose own share reaches $25,000. The license has to be in hand before the bid goes out, not before the work starts.

Below that, Crockett County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Bells. Nine counties did adopt it — Davidson, Rutherford and Robertson among them — so a job across the county line can carry a requirement this one does not.

Licensing rules are set by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, not by LeadChuck. Verified 2026-07-30; confirm with the Board before you rely on it.

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Straight answers

Questions from Bells contractors.

Does it cost anything to get listed in Bells?

No. Your public listing is free, and it stays free. You only ever pay when you accept a lead another contractor sends you.

How do leads work in Bells?

Contractors send jobs they can't take to someone who can. The contractor sending the job picks who to send it to based on the lead fee that contractor has posted, so you're never bidding against anyone. You see the job before you decide, and you pay only if you accept it. Payment is by bank transfer — we don't take card payments.

What is the referral program?

Every past customer gets a permanent referral link. When they refer a friend and confirm it, that customer gets a thank-you gift card — you choose the amount — and it's unconditional: they get it whether or not the friend ever books a job. The friend never sees the gift card; they just arrive as a warm introduction.

Do I need a license to work in Bells?

Tennessee requires a contractor's license before you bid or quote a price on any job totaling $25,000 or more, materials and labor together. That applies to the contractor running the job, and separately to electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and masonry work whose own share reaches $25,000. The license has to be in hand before the bid goes out, not before the work starts. Below that, Crockett County has not adopted Tennessee's Home Improvement law, so there is no separate Home Improvement license for residential jobs under $25,000 in Bells. Nine counties did adopt it — Davidson, Rutherford and Robertson among them — so a job across the county line can carry a requirement this one does not. Licensing is set by the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, not by LeadChuck — confirm with the Board before you rely on this.

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