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

A bid is a bet on what a wall is hiding. The permit history, the open obligations and the notices an inspector already filed are public record before you ever pick up a phone — read the parcel in seconds, and know what a prior contractor left open before you inherit it.

The questions it answers

What permits are already open on this building?
Are there elevator or exterior-maintenance violations on file?
Has anything here been condemned?
What has the city cited here and left open?
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 permitsFiled and not yet closed out — the obligation a job can quietly inherit. Cleveland reads the electrical, plumbing and HVAC permits from the same feed by the department's own category, so the trades on the parcel are here too.of what the city publishes as open.

Violations on the surrounding blocksWhat the city has filed nearby by year and category, against what an average Cleveland area of the same size records — and how much of it is still open.

What Cleveland requires hereWhether the rental registration is current and for how many units, whether a lead-safe certificate is in force and when it expires, whether the city holds the structure condemned, and every point-of-sale Certificate of Disclosure filed against the parcel. No record is reported as no record, never as compliance.

Permits on the blocks around itWhat is being built and repaired nearby, by year, against the citywide rate.

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

Written for you

What Cleveland files every dayEleven lists, one filing type each, in the order the city filed them. What each one is, how often it moves, and how far behind the city runs.What to check before you bid in ClevelandThe permit and violation record on the parcel, the work the city has just issued nearby, and the one thing the permit will not tell you.How to read a Cleveland reportWhat the city publishes, what each comparison claims, and the three places a Cleveland report is quieter than a San Francisco one.What a Cleveland condemnation actually meansTwo thousand structures condemned since 2024, two thirds of them still open. What the notice says, what it does not, and why the garage counts separately.

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