The job is funded, scheduled, and nobody has called yet.

There is no homeowner phone number here. That is on purpose, and it is the reason this list is worth something.

Buy a lead from one of the big lead sites and here is what you actually bought: a homeowner who filled in a “get quotes” form twenty minutes ago, whose phone number was sold to you and to three or four of your competitors at the same time. He is already annoyed. You are the fourth call. You are bidding before you have said hello.

A permit is the opposite. Nobody filled in a form. Nobody is expecting calls. The owner committed to the project, put a number on it, and filed it with the city. He told the city, not a lead broker.

What you are not buying, and why that is the point

• Nobody else was sold this person’s phone number, because we do not have it and will not get it. There is no fourth call, because there is no call list.
• No Do Not Call exposure, no TCPA exposure, no consent question, no scrubbing. There is nothing here that a regulator considers a phone lead, because it is not one.
• We are not reselling anyone else’s data. Every row came out of the city’s own public record, which means you can go check any row against the city’s own website and see the same permit.

Where there IS a phone, we give it to you

Where the city names the contractor who pulled the permit, you get the company — and where their licensing board publishes it, the business line. Austin publishes the contractor and the phone on the permit itself. Seattle and New York resolve through their state licence rosters. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans publish the record but not a phone, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The free preview shows you exactly which fields your city fills in, before you pay for anything.

How many, in your city, right now

Pick your city, your trade and the size of job you bid. The count and the rows below are counted while you are looking at them, by the same query your paid feed runs — not an estimate, not a projection, and a different number when you reload this page.

Don’t see your city? Request it — it opens an email with the two things we need: the city and your trade.

The green figure is the budget the owner wrote on their own permit application. It is how you tell a small bathroom refresh from a six-figure gut renovation before you spend a Saturday driving to it — and the budget band above filters on exactly that field, so the figures you see are the ones you asked for.

Those are not samples we picked. They are the top of the live result — the same query, the same day, stopped at five rows, with nothing to fill in.

We count the feed before we sell it.

When a metro and trade comes back too thin to be worth the money, no buy buttons appear on this page and we say so in plain words. We would rather lose the sale than take $99 for an empty list. Try Seattle plumbing in the selector above and watch it refuse.

Why only seven cities.

Because we read each city’s own records every day and normalise them by hand. Every city publishes a different format and half of them publish it badly. A list that covers a thousand cities is a list nobody checked: the trade filter is a keyword guess, the budget is missing, the contractor who pulled the permit is not there, and you cannot tell how old any of it is. We would rather be the only feed you trust in your city than a national list you cancel in month two. If your city is not here, write to support@permitverdict.com and say which one — that is how the next one gets picked.

You have an address, a budget, a description, and often the GC. Here is what people do with that.

The arithmetic. Shared runs $99 a month — $1,188 for a year. One job of any size covers it. The preview above is filtered to jobs of $25,000 and up by default, and that is the same filter your paid feed runs. If a month goes by and the list has not earned that, you cancel it yourself in two clicks: no phone call, no notice period, and access stops the moment you do. Compare that to buying leads one at a time, where you pay per lead, several contractors bought the same one, and there is nothing to cancel because you already paid.

Illustration, not a measurement: if you knock forty doors and one becomes a job, that is one job against $99 a month. We have not measured a close rate on this list and we are not going to quote you one we do not have. The numbers you should trust here are your own close rate and the live count above.

Two ways to buy it. They are not the same thing and we are going to be blunt about the difference.

A permit is a buying signal, not a phone call you paid for — which is why a whole city costs less than a handful of clicks on Google. A search lead is resold to every contractor bidding on it. Here, $99 buys the list for your trade in your metro, and $299 takes that metro off the market entirely.

Neither tier has a contract, a setup fee, or a call with anyone. Both cancel from the same billing page in two clicks. What we will not do is sell you a metro and trade that is too thin to be worth the money — run the check below on your own city and if it comes back thin, you will see us refuse it rather than take your card. The number on that check is the feed itself, counted, not an estimate and not a projection.

Check your metro and trade

Pick your metro and your trade. $99 gets you the full list for that metro and trade, starting with 7 days free — and other contractors in your trade can buy the same list. $299 closes it: while you hold it, we stop selling that metro and trade to anyone else.

What you get: a private link to every new permit in your metro, filtered to your trade, with the declared job value and the work described — read live from the city’s own records every time you open it. You set the budget band on the link itself, and change it whenever your appetite changes. Where the city names the contractor who pulled the permit and their licensing board publishes a business number, you get that too. What you never get from us is a homeowner’s phone number — these are owners who just committed to a project, not people who filled in a "get quotes" form. That's the trade-off, and it's why the list is worth working rather than waiting on.

From Alexander

I built this because the good version of a permit lead is not a phone number — it is knowing about a funded job before anyone else does, and there was no clean way to get that in one place for one trade in one city.

I should tell you plainly: the company is new. You would be one of the first contractors on it. I do not have testimonials to show you and I am not going to invent any, so here is what I offer instead — every number on this page is counted live from the city’s own records while you are looking at it, every row can be checked against the city’s own website, and if the list for your city and trade is too thin to be worth $99 I will refuse the sale on this page rather than take your card.

Seven days of full access, card required, cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing, is the fairest way I know to let you find out whether this is worth $99 to you specifically. If it is not, cancel it — that costs me a subscription and saves you the argument.

If your city is not on the list, or a row looks wrong, email me: support@permitverdict.com. I read them.

— Alexander

Privacy & data

All data comes from official municipal open-data portals and is public record (public domain / PDDL). We report property activity only — permit type, declared value, dates, status, and the work described. We do not sell, compile, or expose personal information about occupants or owners.

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