I live in Louisiana and want to start up a small business. I want to know, how much is the going rate a square foot to bid a house. How much a square foot for painting and finishing drywall?

I can help you with the house painting part, but I'm not sure about the drywall pricing. If you look down at the bottom of this page, you will see questions that have been similar to yours. You might want to click on them to see what the answers have been.

You could also put in the word painting into the search function at the top of this page to get more results. In either case, most of the questions that you find that have been answered in the past six or seven months should be those that I have answered concerning painting of inside or outside or houses.