What's been done to it, how old the systems really are, and what the season is about to ask of the lawn and the driveway.
Assembled from public and county sources, tied to your parcel.
County-attested. Where a trade's records don't reach back far enough, the record says so rather than implying nothing was done.
The questions people have about a house are all one question — what's been done to it, and did anyone check the work. Answering it has meant a city archive, a records request, or paying someone. Here it's the property's own page. Where a city and trade are fully loaded you get the history; where they aren't, you get the year that record actually begins — never a blank that lets you assume the worst.
Decoded from the data plate — one photo dates most equipment exactly, rather than guessing from the age of the house. Not every brand's serial format is decodable, and an undecodable one is reported as unknown rather than estimated from the house.
The record looks backwards. This looks forward, using the weather your ground is actually responding to — with models measured against 26 years of daily Minnesota weather, back to 2000.
Twenty-six years of weather barely move that number — and the reason is counter-intuitive. When drought or heat puts your lawn dormant, cutting it does damage, so we stand down and you aren't billed. The weather's swing is absorbed by the cuts we decline, not passed on to you. In the 2012 drought that meant 46 skipped days.
A hard Minneapolis winter is several times the work of a mild one, and pretending otherwise would be a lie. Anyone quoting a flat seasonal price is charging you to carry that risk. Ice is the other half of the job and peaks in different months than snow — a plow can't clear it. The full measured season, on its own pages: lawn care and snow & ice.
The permit record usually knows, and it beats anyone's memory.
A median of 19 cuts a season — measured across twenty-six of them, with “No Mow May” honored.
The honest range is 9 to 34 clearings a winter — plus the de-icer chemistry nobody explains.
The intelligence underneath everything here: measurement, evidence grades, and what we refuse to guess.
Rebates and incentives are scattered across your city, your utility, the state and the federal government — each with its own rules, and no single place that tells you which ones your house actually qualifies for.
A furnace rebate is irrelevant if you're replacing a roof, so you won't see it. And because some programs pair and others don't — one city bonus requires a heat pump, the utility's version doesn't — the conditions are shown with the money.
The federal Section 25C credit ended. It's still in our knowledge base — marked terminated, so it can never be surfaced as available. A rebate list that quietly keeps dead programs on it is worse than no list at all.
Every hail event since 2015, resolved to your parcel and kept as a record — not a county-wide alert.
The history is complete — every event is kept, including the ones too small to matter, because a record that quietly drops the minor events isn't a record. What changes is which of them are worth your attention.
An unknown is reported as an unknown — the difference between a record you can rely on and one you have to second-guess.
No roofing permit on file doesn't mean no roof work — it can simply mean the records don't reach back that far. Depending on your city and the trade, they start anywhere from 1982 to 2024, so the record names the year yours begins instead of letting you assume the worst.
County-attested, permit-verified, decoded from a plate, or told to us by you — each is labeled, because they aren't the same kind of fact.
Measurements taken from imagery are served as ranges with their confidence, never as a single confident number standing in for a site visit.
Constraints designed in, not promises to take on faith.
Recommendations are computed from the evidence on your property. Commercial relationships aren't an input, so no arrangement can move one up the page.
Reading your home's record is the base of the product. It doesn't lead anywhere you have to pay to reach.
A neutral account of the property, meant to transfer with the home when it changes hands.
Home maintenance is hard mostly because it is unfamiliar. Almost every decision arrives once a decade, under time pressure, and nearly everyone you can ask about it is also bidding on the work. What we are building is the other thing: a right hand that knows your specific house and is not selling you anything — the engine cannot see who pays us, and no commercial arrangement can move a recommendation up the page.
In practice that means explaining as much as reporting. Why a furnace at nineteen years is a different conversation than one at nine. What a contractor means by tear-off versus overlay, and which one your roof is actually a candidate for. What a permit would normally be pulled for, so you can tell a fair scope from an inflated one. Whether a repair is urgent, seasonal, or safe to plan for next year.
It also means keeping a watchful eye on the things you would otherwise have to remember to check. Once your appliances and systems are identified down to the model, they can be matched against published safety recalls and known problem batches — so a defect that was announced somewhere you would never have looked reaches you, instead of waiting until it fails. Identifying the equipment is the built part; the watch runs before we open.
And when work does need doing, the point is to arrive prepared rather than cold-calling: knowing roughly what the job involves, what it tends to cost around here, and which licensed firms have demonstrably done that trade on your street — ranked on their actual permit history, not on who paid for placement. The better the house is understood, the easier every one of those choices gets.
We are building it now, which is exactly why it is worth telling us what your house keeps making you deal with. What homeowners say they need is what gets built first, and we would rather hear that from you than guess at it.
What you would want to know about your house, and what you have had to chase down the hard way. We read every one.
Get in touch →This part works today and needs no account — what each city holds, how far back, per trade.
Permit records →Real parcels read end to end — a site cleared and rebuilt, a house heated by coal until 1947, a roof replaced with no permit at all.
Worked examples →Dating a furnace from its plate, measuring a roof from the air, and what we refuse to answer.
The method →