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Sarasota County permit records — 43 houses, best documented first

What the county record says about a house — roof, AC, windows, plumbing, electrical, plus flood and evacuation zone — before you fall in love with it. Every verdict shows the permit text it rests on.

This report: 43 houses in Sarasota County. Click any row for its full record.

What was searched

43houses
215system verdicts
416permits read
1970median build yr
1house, zero red

Both county systems were searched for every house, with a known-good control passing on each. An absence here means both systems were searched and neither holds a permit — it never means nobody looked.

What came back

42 of 43 houses — 97% — carry at least one red flag. That is normal for this housing stock, not a verdict on the market.

With a median build year of 1970, almost every house here will show something. The useful question is not whether a house has a flag — it is which flags a carrier refuses and which ones you negotiate. An old AC is a budget line. A roof past its age gate, or a polybutylene-era house with no repipe on record, is a different category.

106red
66green
34amber
9unverified

By major

MajorDistributionGA? RRed %
Roof24401534%
AC2089613%
Windows2403786%
Plumbing4003990%
Electrical16180920%

A major that is red almost everywhere is describing the housing stock, not the house. The majors that vary are the ones that carry per-house signal.

What this can and cannot tell you

It can tell you what the county record says. Both permit systems were searched for every house — the legacy portal and Accela — with a known-good control passing on each. Where it says no permit is on record, both were searched and neither holds one. Every grade shows the permit text it rests on, so you can check it.

It cannot tell you what is inside the walls. When a house sits in the polybutylene or cast-iron window, that is a reason to check at inspection — not a finding. Plenty of houses from those years have copper. A permit proves someone applied; only its status says the work was finished, and open permits are flagged as open.

It is not a flood determination. Flood is read from Sarasota County’s published maps against the building footprint the county has on file. A lender’s determination is a separate paid product and it governs the policy. Every flood finding links to the county’s own map so you can see it yourself.

No listing data is used anywhere in this. Everything here is county public record — permits, the property appraiser, and FEMA maps as the county publishes them.

Every house, best documented first

Sort: most GREEN first, then fewest RED. This ranks houses by what the record shows, so it will not surface a house the county credits as renovated whose permits disagree — that is a different question, asked of the effective year, and those houses sit low in this table by design.

G documented & current A partial, or scope not stated R problem, or nothing on record ? no permit either system click any row for the full record
AddressBuiltRoofAC WindPlumbElecFloodEvac

Want this on the houses you are deciding between?

Text 866-794-1618 your top 10. The ones you are actually choosing between. I pull all 10 and send back a page like this one, ranked, so you can see which are worth paying an inspector for and which are not.

It is free, and here is the trade: I am going to want to talk to you. Not a sales call — I want to hear how the search is going, which of the 10 you kept, and whether any of this changed what you did. Right now that is worth more to me than charging you would be.

What comes back for every house: every permit on record with its date, roof and AC age, plumbing, electrical, windows, the flood zone at the building itself rather than the parcel, and anything the county wrote up as done without a permit — in the county’s own words.

Sarasota and Manatee counties. Anywhere else, I’ll tell you straight rather than guess — and text me which county you are looking in. Every record I read is published by the county itself, so I add them as people ask.

Send fewer than 10 if that is all you are looking at, or send them one at a time as you find them. Same answer either way: which of these deserves your inspection money.

I only use the addresses. Nothing else is stored or used anywhere in this — every finding above comes from county public records.