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What the city already knows, before you price the job.

What the city already knows about the building, before you price the job. Every permit filed on the parcel and what each was for, the code-enforcement cases it holds open, and the five trades this city records separately — HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, elevator and excavation — so you can see your own work on a street rather than everybody's.

The questions it answers

What permits are already open on this building?
What fire-protection permits have been filed on this building?
What has the city opened against this building?
Has this building been ordered boarded up?
Who pulled the last permit here, and what was it for?
What has been filed against this building in the last year?

The sections that earn their keep

Open permitsBuilding, electrical and plumbing, filed and not yet closed out — the obligation a job can quietly inherit.

Fire protection permitsSprinklers, standpipes and alarm systems, filed as their own permit type — the work the fire code demands before a building opens.

Code enforcement on the buildingCases the city opened against it, under its own categories, with the date each was entered.

What is being demolishedWrecking permits around the address. On a block about to change, the demolition is usually the first thing filed.

The permit record, in fullEvery filing on the parcel, dated, with what it declared and whether it closed.

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