Before you price the job
The city has already written down most of what changes a bid: what has been permitted on the parcel and what is still open, what inspectors have cited and left open, and whether any part of the structure is condemned. A report reads all of it in seconds.
- The permit history on the parcel. Every permit keyed to the parcel by its pin, with the declared job value. An open permit is an obligation a job can inherit.
- What the city holds against it. Exterior and interior maintenance orders, lead violations and condemnations are filed against the parcel and kept marked open until resolved — two thirds of the condemnations filed since January 2024 still are.
- Which structure. Cleveland condemns the garage separately from the house. "Condemned" without the structure is the wrong fact about half the time.
- What is starting around it. The demolition, new-construction and roofing lists are keyed on the issue date, because a filed permit is a plan and an issued one is a job that may start tomorrow.
The one thing the permit will not tell you
Who pulled it. Cleveland's permits carry a contractor field, and about one name in thirty is a private individual filed as themselves. This report prints no name from it. Every row links to the city's own permit record, where Cleveland publishes the contractor under Cleveland's name.
The trades are categories on one feed. Cleveland files “Building Permits” and labels each Electrical, Plumbing or HVAC and Refrigeration, so the trade lists are cut by category; there are no trade-specific lists here and the report does not fake them from a description.
Counts run 3 September 2026 over filings since 1 January 2024.