Written for the person buying the property, not for a lawyer. If you want to check our work, every finding tells you where to go and look.
Eleven national layers everywhere, plus the state-held material where the state publishes it usably. The report names how many layers it read and lists them.
Named record, distance and bearing from your parcel, approximate address where the source gives one, and the database it came from. Nothing appears in a report without one.
Each finding carries one of five labels so you can see what to look at first. The label describes the record — its type, its status as the agency codes it, and how close it is. It is not a judgment about the property.
The report carries a Records Score and band in the 48 states and DC whose registries support one — and counting. Where a source could not be retrieved, the report says so and withholds the score rather than guessing.
Look here first. A record of the most consequential kind, close enough to matter.
Worth asking about before you commit. Named, cited, and placed for you.
On file nearby and worth knowing. Listed in full, collapsed by default.
The surrounding-area record. Kept because completeness is the point.
Checked, nothing found. The report shows what it looked for and when.
That the record exists in the government database we name, and where it sits relative to your parcel — distance and bearing, computed from the mapped location.
The record's own content — its status, dates and description — as the agency states it. We pass it through and cite it. We do not adjudicate it, and we do not resolve disagreements between sources.
The score measures environmental history — contamination, tanks, remediation, cleanup.
That and nothing else. Flood zone, geology, zoning, easements and the surrounding record are all reported in full — they do not move the score. The report labels the score's band on its face, and shows how many findings drove it and how near the nearest one is.
A high score is not an endorsement and a low score is not a verdict. It is a reading of how much environmental history is on file near the parcel, in a state whose records we can read well enough to count.
In short: we read public records and cite them, quickly and honestly. The judgment is yours, informed by professionals you choose. What this report is — and is not.
Or read a full sample report first.