Question 1

Are these leads exclusive?

Accepted Answer

No. PermitVector is public-record intelligence, not a closed lead broker: every subscriber in a market sees the same permits. What we add is the adjacent-trade mapping, delivered within days of the permit being issued, often before the next trade has been hired. We do not sell it as a lead per contact, and we do not resell a permit to a set number of bidders the way some lead services do.

Question 2

If a permit is filed, doesn’t the owner already have a contractor?

Accepted Answer

For the trade named on the permit, yes, and we would not pretend otherwise. That job is already let. What the filing tells you is what has not been hired yet: a new build names a general contractor months before anyone orders windows, appliances, a pool or landscaping, and a re-roof names a roofer while the solar and the gutters are still unlet. That is why every permit is tagged with the adjacent trades it creates rather than the one that pulled it, and why your feed leaves out the permits your own trade pulled: a roofer gets new builds and solar installs but no re-roofs, an electrician gets no electrical or EV-charger permits, and a pool builder gets no pool permits. You are calling about the part of the job nobody has quoted. Where the record names the contractor of record, you get that name too, which is the call to make when the buyer you want is the builder rather than the owner.

Question 3

How fresh is the data?

Accepted Answer

We pull building permits from public open-data feeds early every morning. The daily email arrives around 6 AM CT, and the dashboard and API update at the same time, carrying that morning’s pull. Each city’s own publishing delay still applies: most publish a permit one to three days after issuing it, the City of Los Angeles publishes weekly, Hillsborough County runs about a week behind, San Antonio and Los Angeles County take about four days, and Maricopa County about five.

Question 4

Which cities are covered?

Accepted Answer

We are live across five states: Texas, Colorado, Florida, Arizona and California. Texas runs from Austin and Fort Worth through San Antonio, San Marcos, Midland and unincorporated Harris County. Colorado covers Denver, Aurora, Adams County, Boulder and Colorado Springs. Florida is Miami-Dade, Orlando, Cape Coral and Hillsborough County. Arizona is Gilbert, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Peoria and unincorporated Maricopa County. California covers Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Sacramento County and Corona. A handful of big-city cores still route their permits behind login walls with no open daily feed, so we cover the surrounding suburbs and add the cores as that data opens. Houston and Dallas proper are the main gaps. Every market shows you what its permit record publishes, and that varies by city: some name the contractor with a phone number, some name the property owner, and some name both. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, Corona, San Marcos and Midland name neither, so there you get the address and the permit itself.

Question 5

Do I get contact info, or just the address?

Accepted Answer

You get everything the public permit record publishes, and that varies by market. Every lead in your email carries the adjacent-buyer signal, and almost every lead carries the street address; the exception is San Diego, whose record often adds the address a week or more after the permit, so many of its newest permits arrive without one. Where the record names the contractor, you see the name. The record carries the contractor’s phone as well, at no extra charge, on most permits in Austin and Miami-Dade, about half in Orlando and about a third in Mesa. San Antonio, Sugar Land and Pearland name the contractor without a phone, and some markets name no contractor at all. Where the record is silent, a one-click lookup pulls the contractor’s business phone and website from Google business data, included with every plan. For property owners, we show the owner name and mailing address from the public record wherever the county or city publishes them.

Question 6

Why doesn’t PermitVector sell homeowner phone numbers?

Accepted Answer

Because that is a specialist business and we are not the specialist. Permit records are public documents, and turning them into fast, well-scored leads is our whole product. Personal contact data comes from different sources and is sold under different rules, and it is done best by companies built for exactly that. So each lead carries a direct path to registered providers such as PropertyRadar, and you buy from them on their terms, usually in a couple of minutes. Anything you buy can be stored on the lead in your PermitVector dashboard, either one at a time or as a CSV import, so your pipeline stays in one place. You are the caller: outreach compliance (TCPA, CAN-SPAM, Do-Not-Call) is yours regardless of where the number came from.

Question 7

Where does the data come from?

Accepted Answer

Public records: the open-data permit portals of the cities and counties we cover across Texas, Colorado, Florida, Arizona and California, plus the contractor licence boards of Texas, Florida, California and Arizona. We classify each permit by trade and tag the adjacent buyers who want it. See our methodology page for the full sourcing.

Question 8

Can I cancel anytime?

Accepted Answer

Yes, cancel anytime in one click with no fee. Your 14-day free trial does ask for a card, but nothing is charged until it ends, and canceling before then costs nothing. Flat monthly pricing after that. The one exception is the free permit lookup tool, which starts a 14-day daily feed without a card.

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