The seller says the roof is new. Ask for the receipts.
You’re about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. Somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of US homes have unpermitted work. A DeedShield report is the seller’s verified paperwork. Free for you to view, free for them to create. If they don’t have one, you know something.
We’ll send them a link to create a free report.
No obligation. If the seller has nothing to hide, they’ll appreciate the ask. If they push back, that’s a data point too.
Nobody is quietly verifying the seller’s claims for you.
The listing says “newly renovated kitchen.” The inspector walks the house for two hours. Your title insurer runs a chain-of-title check. Your appraiser looks at three comps. None of them tell you: was the electrical upgrade permitted? Is the roof five years old or twenty? Was that finished basement legal?
The buyer discovers unpermitted work after close far more often than during due diligence. It becomes your problem at your resale, or your lender’s problem at refinance, or your insurer’s problem at claim time. A DeedShield report lets the seller show their work upfront, on a free page you can open before you make an offer.
One page. Verified. No signup to view.
Every renovation, dated.
Roof, kitchen, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, additions. With receipts, photos, and contractor names when the seller has them.
Permit numbers cross-checked.
Where we cover the county (NYC today, more coming), a permit-verified badge tells you the number actually resolves in the county's public database.
Public-record signals.
FEMA flood zone, statewide FBI property-crime rate, and the deed chain from the county recorder. All from public sources, aggregated once.
“Do you have a DeedShield report?”
Ask it early. On the first walkthrough, or in the second email exchange. Sellers with clean paperwork want to show you the report. Sellers without one either had nothing to hide and were unorganized, or had something to hide. Their reaction tells you a lot.
Start your report before you list.
Log renovations as you go. When it’s time to sell, you already have the verified record buyers ask for. Free for one property, permanently.