Every lot is its own permit, and its own clock.
You are selling houses that do not exist yet, on settlement dates buyers have already booked movers around. Your permit specialist runs the plats and the occupancy certificates against that calendar and names the lot about to slip while there is still time to move it.
Call and talk to a permit specialist — scoped to home builders.
What your projects run into
- Residential building permits, lot by lot
- Zoning and setback verification
- Grading, erosion, and sediment control permits
- Stormwater management approval
- Well and septic permits on unsewered lots
- Water and sewer connection and allocation
- Driveway entrance and right-of-way access permits
- Builder registration and contractor licensing per state
- Certificates of occupancy per unit
Where the time goes
- An excavator mobilized against a grading permit that cannot issue until the stormwater concept clears
- Settlements booked to the day, certificates of occupancy trickling out one lot at a time
- A model home that needs its own temporary use approval on top of the building permit
Each of those is days or weeks on a calendar you don't control. Handled early, most of them never happen.
We are not your architect or your engineer. We take their drawings and make the county accept them, lot by lot, on the calendar settlements run on.
Straight answers
How early should permitting start on a new subdivision?
Earlier than the building permit, because the approvals that gate it are already sitting in a queue somewhere else: grading, sediment control, stormwater. How far upstream they sit, and how many run at once, changes across a county line and again across a state line. Call with the parcel and the plat status — the sequence for that ground comes back on the call.
Can you handle permits across several counties at once?
Yes. Each county gets its own filing, its own checklist edition, and its own fee schedule, tracked against your release schedule rather than one master list.
What holds up a certificate of occupancy on a finished house?
Usually an inspection nobody scheduled, a utility release that never came, or a site item — the driveway apron, the final grade — that belongs to a different permit than the house.
Call and talk to a permit specialist
(240) 344-5075Ten minutes on your project. You leave with the permits and licenses it needs, in order, with the clocks that run on each.