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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?
Which code-enforcement cases are open on this parcel?
What has the city closed here, and when?
What permits has LADBS issued on the blocks around it?
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 permitsIssued and not yet finaled — the obligation a job can quietly inherit. The trades are their own feeds: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire-sprinkler and elevator permits on the parcel, read beside the building permits.

Code enforcement on this parcelEvery LADBS case the city holds open against the parcel, by type, and how many it has closed and when. No case is reported as no case, never as compliance.

Police reports on the blockLAPD incident reports within the radius by year and category, against what an average Los Angeles area of the same size records — published to the hundredth block, so counted as a box the width of the radius, and said so.

Permits on the blocks around itWhat LADBS has issued nearby since 2020, by year and type, 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 Los Angeles files every dayFifteen lists from five LADBS feeds, keyed on the day a permit was issued rather than the day it was asked for. What each is, and why the issue date.What to check before you bid in Los AngelesThe permit record on the parcel, the cases the city holds open against it, and what LADBS has just issued around it.How to read a Los Angeles reportWhat the city publishes, how the two parcel numbers meet, and what a comparison claims.What a Los Angeles assessment actually isAnchored to the last sale, capped at about two per cent a year, and reset the day the deed records. Why a seller's bill says nothing about a buyer's.

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