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Due Diligence Report

One address in. The whole permit picture out.

Before you sign the lease, close the loan, or start drawings: one written report that answers what this address needs, what it will cost in agency fees, how long it will really take, and what's hiding in its permit history.

Order a report — written quote first Start with a $49 fee estimate

What's in the report

  • The true permitting authority — resolved from the street address and parcel, not the city name on the listing. Unincorporated pockets, county fire districts, and split jurisdictions are where projects go to die; the report names the authority that actually decides, for building, fire, and every satellite agency
  • Zoning and allowed use — the parcel's zoning, whether your use is allowed by right, conditional, or not at all, and the entitlement path if one is required
  • Every permit the project needs — building, fire alarm, sprinkler, health, signage, encroachment, change of use: the full set, in filing order, with each agency's intake requirements
  • Itemized agency fees — plan check, permit, inspection, and impact fees, from the authority's published fee schedule, so your budget carries the city's real numbers
  • A realistic timeline — review lanes and current pace for that jurisdiction, express or over-the-counter options where they exist, and the long pole identified by name
  • Red flags — change-of-use triggers (sprinklers, accessibility, parking), open or expired permits on the property from its records, flood and hazard overlays from public data, and anything that should be priced or negotiated before you commit
Delivered in days, not weeks — date stated in your quote Written quote before work begins Every finding tied to a published source or a record

How it works

  1. Send the address and the project. What you're building, opening, or converting — a paragraph is enough.
  2. Get a written quote with a delivery date. One price, and the day the report lands, stated before work begins. Most reports are scoped to deliver within days.
  3. We run the engines and the records. The same tools that power this portal — fee and timeline engines, permit records pulls, hazard and flood data, and our jurisdiction playbooks — plus a human check of anything the sources leave ambiguous. Ambiguity gets flagged in the report, never papered over.
  4. You get one document, ready to act on. And if you proceed, the report becomes the filing plan: every permit it lists can be filed from the same order flow, at published flat prices where they apply.

Lighter versions already live on this portal: the Permit Fee Estimator ($49) and PermitIQ Report ($99) answer the fee question in minutes. The Due Diligence Report is the full picture — authority, zoning, permits, fees, timeline, and history in one document.

What a report is — and isn't

Every finding in the report traces to a published jurisdiction source, a fee schedule, a permit record, or public hazard data — and the report says which. It is a snapshot of what the public record shows today; agencies change rules and keep the final say on their own permits, so a report informs a decision, it doesn't guarantee an outcome. We don't publish accuracy percentages, because a number like that would be marketing, not evidence. Where a source and the counter disagree, the report tells you that too.

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Who orders these?

Buyers and tenants doing pre-lease and pre-purchase checks, brokers pricing a listing's real potential, GCs and coordinators bidding work in an unfamiliar jurisdiction, and owners who got surprised once and declined a second round. If the address decides the deal, the report pays for itself the first time it finds a change-of-use trigger.Multi-site rollout? The same report runs across every candidate address — see Permit Programs.

How is this different from the $49 and $99 reports?

Those answer one question fast — what will the fees run? The Due Diligence Report answers the whole set: who decides, what's allowed, what's required, what it costs, how long it takes, and what the property's history holds. Different tool for a bigger decision.Start at /reports/ if fees are all you need today.

What if the report finds a problem?

Then it did its job before the problem cost you a lease. The report names the issue, the authority behind it, and the realistic paths — an entitlement filing (see Entitlements), a scoped redesign, or walking away with your deposit intact. Knowing early is the entire product.We report what the record shows, including when it's not what you hoped.

What does it cost?

Quote-based, because a single storefront and a 40-site rollout are different amounts of work. One written price and a delivery date before anything starts — no hourly billing, and agency records fees, if any, at cost.If we can't verify a finding from a source, we say so in the report rather than charging you for a guess.

Know before you sign

Send the address and the plan for it. We'll quote the report in writing — price and delivery date — before any work begins.

Order a Due Diligence Report

Or call (888) 907-9511. Related: Reports · Permit Records · Permit Timeline · Hazard Report