Due diligencefor Canadians
Viewing asJust lookingBrowsing

Who are you? The site shows what's for you.

Home buyerCheck a home before you offerOwner or sellerSee what buyers will find firstReal estate agentReports for your clientsLawyer, lender or proListings and packsInvestor or landlordRentals, extra units, holding costsRenterWhen the home you rent is for saleJust lookingThe free guides to home records
Sample report

Home records, explained › Who helps with a home › Playbooks › A garden suite builder

The playbook for a garden suite builder

Where a garden suite builder's clients come from: owners and investors reading the extra-unit rules for their lot, town by town.

The kind of business: Garden suite and laneway house builders. Page reviewed 4 Nov 2026.

A garden suite builder

Where clients appear1 moment

Things to hand a clientpublic samples

4 recordsto know
2 registersclients check
Free listingnever paid for
  1. Thinking about it
  2. Getting ready to sell
  3. Searching and financing
  4. The offer and its conditions
  5. Closing and moving
  6. The first 90 days
  7. Making it yours
  8. Adding a unit or renting it out
  9. Living there

Where clients come from

  1. Adding a unit or renting it out

    Owners and investors read whether the zoning allows extra units, the lot size and the trees on the lot, and the city-by-city rules.

What a listing shows

What a listing looks like
Your business nameGarden suite and laneway house buildersRegister checked
  • The towns you serve
  • Languages
  • What you specialise in

Your website

FreeIn the order checkedNever paid for

  • The towns served and the languages worked in.
  • A BCIN for the design work, or the designer used; an HCRA licence where the business builds new homes.
  • Garden suites, laneway houses, coach houses: what the business builds.

Listing on OfferDue is free and in the order businesses were checked, never paid for. Where a licence or register exists we check it before a listing shows.

Ask for a free listingHome teams, town by town

The records to know

OfferDue's tools for this work

Each is sold once, at a flat price that is the same for every business; none is billed monthly. One that is not open to buy yet says so on its page.

The register and the line

  • WSIB: clearance certificate searchShows whether a business is registered with the WSIB and in good standing. The WSIB says a homeowner hiring a contractor for repairs or renovations isn't required to hold a clearance; many ask for one anyway.Check the register →
  • Ontario One Call: request a locateBefore any digging, the law requires a free locate request, at least five business days ahead for a single address; lines on private property (a gas line to a barbecue, a sewer pipe) are marked by a private locator.Check the register →

What OfferDue does and doesn't do with this business:

  • Listing is free and shows in the order businesses were checked: no business pays for a place, a label or an order on any page.
  • OfferDue takes no fee for a client who finds a listed business, and pays none to anyone for a client.
  • OfferDue's pages say what each record shows and where it comes from: never legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice.

Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. A listing on OfferDue is not a recommendation; check licences and references yourself.