Know what the site allows before you tie it up
Records research on a development site, turned around in days, with the source on every line.
A site that fails late is the expensive kind of failure. By then you have paid for the option, the survey, maybe the engineer, and the thing that killed it was sitting in the records the whole time. Floodway through the middle. No sewer. A plat that was never recorded. An acreage number that does not match itself.
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Flood and floodway
Not just the zone. Whether a regulatory floodway removes buildable area, and how much.
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Access and easements
Legal frontage, recorded easements, and anything that blocks where a road or a driveway can go.
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Servicing
Municipal water and sewer availability, or on site sewage feasibility and which authority actually has jurisdiction over that specific parcel.
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Plat and subdivision status
Whether the parcel is platted, whether it needs to be, and what approval that actually requires.
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Zoning and setbacks
What the ordinance permits, minimum lot size, and the buildable envelope once setbacks are applied.
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Title restrictions
Deed restrictions and covenants of record that limit use or placement.
A written answer on whether the site supports what you want to build, and where a building can physically sit.
Every finding marked confirmed or unconfirmed, with its source, so your own people can check any line.
The open questions named plainly, with who to call to close them.
Single site screen
$750
One development site, full records review, back within three business days.
Complex site
$1,500
Sites with a floodway, an unplatted tract, a jurisdictional question, or a severance or plat path to establish.
Volume
$500 per site
Five or more sites. For teams screening a pipeline rather than one parcel.
First site is free if you have never worked with me. You should see the work before you pay for it.
The acreage did not match itself
On a recent parcel the appraisal district carried it at exactly one acre. The county's own GIS polygon computed it at 0.919 acres. The zoning minimum was one acre. Depending which record governs, that lot is either just inside or just outside what the ordinance allows, and nobody involved had noticed. That is the kind of thing that is cheap to find early and expensive to find late.
Send me a site
Address or parcel number is enough to start.