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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 against the tax lot and what each was for, whether it was filed or issued, and what both agencies have cited — 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 equipment and plumbing permits have been filed on this building?
- What has either agency opened against this building?
- What has been filed on this lot, and what is still only filed?
- 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-suppression violationsSprinkler and standpipe citations specifically, split from alarms and exits — a customer an inspector already flagged.
Pest and infestation noticesRodent, cockroach and bedbug citations, split from general sanitation — the same signal, for a different trade.
What is filed but not issuedA filing is paperwork and an issued permit is work that may legally start. The two are counted apart, which is the difference between a job about to happen and a job that might.
The permit record, in fullEvery filing on the parcel, dated, with what it declared and whether it closed.
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