For property managers
Permit and Compliance Support for Property Managers
You are responsible for buildings you did not build, work you did not authorise, and permits somebody opened years before you took the account.
- Open permit audits across a portfolio
- 40-year recertification and milestone inspections
- Code violation response and hearings
- Vendor work checked before it becomes your problem
What property managers actually call us about
- Inherited open permits — a permit opened by a vendor or a previous manager, never closed, discovered when the owner tries to sell or refinance.
- Recertification deadlines — 40-year and milestone inspections, which arrive by letter with a deadline and escalate quickly when they are missed.
- Code enforcement notices — addressed to the owner, landing on your desk, with a hearing date and fines that accrue daily.
- Unit turns and build-outs — tenant improvements that need permits nobody budgeted for.
- Unpermitted work by tenants or past vendors — found during a turn, an inspection or an insurance survey.
- Capital projects — reroofs, structural repairs, envelope work, elevator and life safety upgrades.
- Insurance-driven work — carriers increasingly requiring documentation and engineering letters before they will renew.
The audit is usually the right place to start
Most managers taking on a Florida portfolio have no reliable picture of what is open against those properties. Permits opened by contractors who are gone. Violations that were never resolved. Recertification clocks already running.
We can pull that picture per property or across a portfolio, and hand you a list of what exists, what is at risk and what it takes to clear each item. That converts an unknown liability into a schedule and a number, which is generally what an owner actually wants from you.
Florida recertification and structural inspection requirements have tightened, and insurance carriers are asking harder questions about building condition. Documentation that was optional a few years ago is now the difference between a renewal and a non-renewal.
Working with your owners
You are usually reporting to somebody. We write our assessments so they can be forwarded — what the issue is, what the department requires, what it costs, what happens if it waits. Plain language, no drama, and honest about what is uncertain.
If it helps to have us on a call with an owner or a board, we will do that.
Vendor work, checked before it bites
A recurring pattern: a vendor does work at a property, tells the manager a permit was not required, and it turns out one was. Two years later it surfaces. If you want, we will review vendor scopes before the work starts and tell you what needs permitting — a short conversation that prevents the expensive version.
Questions about this service
Can you work across a whole portfolio?
Yes. Portfolio-wide audits and ongoing support are common, and pricing works differently at that scale than it does per property. Tell us how many doors or buildings and where they are.
We just took over a property. Where do we start?
An open permit and violation search on the address. It is quick, it is cheap relative to what it prevents, and it tells you what you actually inherited before an owner asks.
Can you handle a recertification end to end?
Yes — inspection, engineering, report, filing and any repair design that comes out of it. See 40-year recertification and milestone inspections.
Do you deal with the code enforcement hearing itself?
We prepare the response and the documentation, and we handle what the department requires. Where legal representation is appropriate we will say so rather than pretending it is not.
Talk to us about your portfolio
Tell us what you manage and what keeps coming up. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Services this usually involves
40-Year Recertification
Milestone and recertification inspections, engineering and filing.
See the serviceCode Compliance & Violations
Notices, hearings and fines that are already accruing.
See the serviceOpen Permit Search
Free directory for checking what is open against an address.
See the serviceUrgent Permit Rescue
When there is a deadline and it is this week.
See the serviceReady to get your permit moving?
One call tells you which jurisdiction controls your project, what it will take, and what it will cost. Most of the time we can scope it on the phone.