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// LAND DUE DILIGENCE FOR ON-YOUR-LOT BUILDERS

Know the lot before you price it.

SiteFacts screens your customer’s lot for the five things that kill a build: zoning, flood, wetlands, access, and slope. It tells you what to budget before you write the contract. The instant read comes from parcel data we source ourselves. The verified report is checked by a person, with every claim traced to the governing authority.

Builders use it to kill bad lots before design investment, and price the good ones before contract.

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Bring a lot you already know. Then check our findings against what you found the hard way.

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SiteFacts map view showing an instant parcel read with lot size, zoning, and jurisdiction for an outlined parcel

Trusted by builders. Reviewed in public.

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“Hey, can you take a quick look at this lot?”

There is no quick look.

Somebody has to find the tax lot. Pull the zoning. Check FEMA. Check wetlands. Figure out whether there’s legal access. Guess at the slope, or drive out and shoot it with a laser. That’s four to six hours of your best operator’s day, or five days off your sales cycle waiting until they’re passing through the area anyway.

Meanwhile the customer is waiting. And the builder who answers first is usually the builder who gets the contract, whether or not their answer was right.

Cross-section illustration of a residential lot revealing hidden wetlands, flood elevation line, septic system, drain field, and utility easement

Caught before contract.

Afton, MN$215,000 in site costspre-contract
Oak Park Heights, MN$35,000 sewer and waterpre-contract
Eugene, OR1974 septic, undisclosedpre-purchase
Cape Coral, FLflood zone, mislistedpre-contract

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in site costs caught before contract, and counting.

Findings on real parcels, not projections.

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SiteFacts Report finding for FEMA Flood Zone AE with plain-English explanation, code citation, and recommended next steps

Five things kill a build. We check all five before you price it.

ZONING

Permitted outright, or does it need a conditional use permit? The most basic check on the list, and the one that gets missed all the way to the permit counter. We know a builder who had contracts in for permits when the property came back rejected for residential use. Twenty-one months of replanning. That’s why this one runs first.

FLOODPLAIN

In or out. And if in, how far below base flood elevation. Stilts and engineering, or nothing at all.

WETLANDS

Mapped wetlands against your buildable area, and whether a formal delineation is likely to be required. The one that turns a well-run job into a scramble for engineers mid-schedule.

ACCESS

Is there a legal, buildable way in? Distance off the road, driveway grade, and whether the design needs turnouts.

SLOPE

Across the building envelope specifically, not the parcel average. Two feet is nothing. Twenty feet is engineered foundation, retaining walls, stairs, and a very different contract.

Go / Caution / Stop on each one.

The five are the screen: the fast kill-or-keep-going check. The full report goes past them, into soils, septic history, easements, deed restrictions, and utility runs. That’s how a 1974 septic system nobody disclosed gets caught before your customer buys the lot.

SiteScore result showing a 71 Proceed with Caution score and mixed results across the five buildability checks
“They use the latest tools to paint the picture for you if you have topography issues... talking with Don H is easy and he explains exactly the why on your build.”
Adam C., Google review
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See the five checks run live on a lot you already know.

Four steps, matched to your process.

  1. Lead in

  2. FIRST CALL

    01 LOOK

    instant

    Any parcel, live, at the sales table. Zoning, flood, wetlands, two-foot contours, setbacks. Unlimited lookups, every rep, every lot.

    SiteFacts map with the contour layer set to two-foot increments showing slope across an outlined parcel

  3. CUSTOMER MEETING

    02 SCREEN

    48 hours

    SiteScore: the big five, Go / Caution / Stop. The report a rep hands a customer to prove the point.

    SiteScore result showing a 71 Proceed with Caution score and mixed results across the five buildability checks

  4. PRE-CON

    03 VERIFY

    5 business days

    SiteFacts Report: human-verified, jurisdiction-specific, every claim traced to the governing authority. The document your PM executes from.

    SiteFacts Report executive summary showing plain-English findings with a citation to the local land development regulations

  5. 04 BUILD

    Site costs captured before contract, while margin can still be applied. Seven boxes checked before you sign.

Contract signed

No surprises left on this side.

Without screening, this is where the costs surface: geotech, wetland buffer, the 600-foot power run.

Construction

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Built by the guy who used to drive out with the laser.

That guy is Don Healy. Twenty years in production homebuilding, and the same call every week: “can you take a quick look at this lot?” Half a day gone. A five-day hole in the sales cycle.

And the ones that got missed cost more than the time did. A builder takes a $60,000 bath because a rep said the lot had “a little slope” and it had twenty feet of it: retaining walls, stairs, engineering, none of it budgeted, all of it discovered too late to price.

SiteFacts is that check, run in minutes instead of days, on every lot instead of the ones somebody thought to worry about.

We err conservative. We would rather flag something that turns out to be nothing than miss something that turns out to matter.

“Don’s expertise and attention to detail are unmatched.”
Bobby D., Google review

You qualify the lot. The buyer is ready to move. Then the call comes in: no utility service within 800 feet, and the setback requirements don’t leave room for the floor plan.

That deal is dead, and it didn’t have to be.

SiteFacts was built for that call. Twenty years in construction, engineering, and operations, watching builders and buyers get blindsided by lot conditions that were knowable from the start, went into the checks the platform runs on every lot.

Don Healy, founder of SiteFacts

Don Healy

Founder

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We built the data before we built the product.

Two years before the first report shipped, we were building the data foundation under it. We call it the Ground Truth Loop, and no part of it is licensed from anyone.

Parcel data pulled straight from the jurisdictions, re-pulled every two weeks, checked line by line by our own team, and every verification fed back in. A geohazard overlay we first caught on a report in Salem, Oregon now flags automatically on every report that trips the same soil-and-slope combination.

The answer you get on your next lot is better than the one we could have given you last year. That’s the point of the loop.

“I’m a Geographer and I know where to access some of the public data in the report but there was a lot more information and history of the site... it would have taken me much more time to find the fraction of the data I know how to find.”
Tim M., Google review
  1. 01

    SOURCED DIRECTLY

    from the counties, not a vendor

  2. 02

    REFRESHED EVERY TWO WEEKS

    a county change lands inside two weeks

  3. 03

    VERIFIED BY PEOPLE

    line by line, against the code

  4. 04

    FED BACK IN

    every report sharpens the next

  5. and back to 01

Cited per claim: county assessors, FEMA, NWI, NRCS soils, local zoning code.

FAQ

Common questions

What is a SiteFacts Report?
A plain-English land due-diligence file that pulls zoning, environmental, utility, and site-cost data from verified public sources into one place, so you know whether a parcel is buildable before you commit.
How fast do I get results?
An instant read the moment you drop a pin. A SiteScore on the five deal-killers in 48 hours, inside the window of a normal site visit. The full SiteFacts Report, human-verified and cited, takes 5 business days.
Is this a substitute for a survey or engineer?
No. SiteFacts tells you where to look, what to budget, and what to verify, before you’ve spent money on design or engineering. It doesn’t replace a surveyor, a geotech, or a civil engineer. It tells you when you’re going to need one.
Can my sales team use this, or does it take an expert?
Both. An experienced ops person can read the map directly and make a go/no-go call in minutes. A newer rep runs a SiteScore and gets the same conclusions in plain language they can take straight to a customer.
Where does the data come from?
We source parcel records, assessor data, and boundaries directly from the jurisdictions and warehouse them ourselves, refreshed every two weeks, so our coverage doesn’t depend on anyone else’s update schedule. Regulatory findings are cited per claim to the governing authority, and hundreds of human-verified reports feed corrections and local nuance back into the database.
Is there a limit on how many lots we can look up?
No. Address lookups are unlimited, for every user on your team. Screening only works if it happens on every lot, including the ones nobody thought to worry about.

Screen your next customer lot.

Schedule a demoScreen a lot

Bring a lot you already know. Then check our findings against what you found the hard way.