For home inspectors: what the City recorded, before you arrive

One page for one address: permits on file and whether they're open, basement flooding and sewer records, the flood plain and conservation authority area, creeks and wells, the soil and slope, past industrial use, heritage, the building and lot size from the City's maps and its tree by-law. Each line has its status, the record, its source and the date it was read.

Your job number heads the page, and it prints or saves as a PDF to attach to your own report. By email within 24 hours of payment; a person checks every line.

Open the sample inspection records page

Public records, never an inspection: the page says nothing about the building's condition, and a permit shows what was filed, not how the work was done. A flat price for a page, the same for every inspector, and no fee tied to any client. Prices in CAD and include HST; the receipt is in the email. Where a town doesn't publish a record, its line says so and names the office to ask (coverage by town).

1. Booking: a client who found you through the inspectors' guide arrives with the report in hand, or runs the free check for the address first.
2. Before the visit: the full report lists the building permits on file and whether each was closed, the open applications for the address, the City's mapping of the building, the flood plain overlay, sewer type and basement flooding study areas, well records, the mapped soil and slope, and who supplies electricity and gas.
3. Records beside condition: a permit on record says what the City approved, not how the work was done. Your findings stay yours; the client has both. A watermark on ours carries the order number and part of the ordering email.
4. Pre-listing inspections: for an owner client, the same report ordered as the owner's report, dated, to hand to buyers beside the inspection (what the owners' guide says about pre-listing inspections).

Order a 10-report packSee the sample report

With a pack, send up to three addresses with the order and the rest by reply to your report email, any time within twelve months, naming the file each report is for. Reports go to the email on the order; you forward them. Prices in CAD and include HST; the receipt is in the report email.

Firm packs (25 and 50 reports) are priced on request until their links are live: email with the firm's name and the number of people who will order.

Buyers reading the inspectors' guide are booking an inspection. An inspector listed there is found by them, by city, and arrives at the home knowing what the City recorded.

A listing is free and goes up after we check the membership number you give us against your association's public directory. OfferDue takes no referral fee and pays none: nothing passes between us when a client books you.

Ask to be listedWho works with OfferDue

• No inspection and no comment on the physical condition of a home: that is your work.
• No opinion on whether work was done well: a permit on record says what the City approved and whether it was closed, nothing more.
• No "inspected" or "verified by" claims: a report describes the public record on the day it was checked, not the home.
• No fee tied to a booking, in either direction.

Who does what in an Ontario offer, and the register for each licence: the roles page. The records beside the inspection, stage by stage: the inspectors' guide.

Packs, a listing or a business arrangement: . Help with a report you've received: [email protected].

Reports and receipts come only from [email protected], and we never ask for card details by email.