Contractor guides & tips

A cold call is a guess. A permit lead is a declared intention to spend money. Here's why the difference in timing changes your conversion rate entirely.

Building permits are public records. There's a right way and a wrong way to reach out — here's how to do it professionally and stay on the right side of CASL.

Not all permits move at the same speed. Trade permits and interior alterations can go from filed to issued in days. New builds can sit for months. Know the difference.

Drain work is almost always permitted directly by the plumber — no GC buffer between the data and the homeowner. Here's what the permit tells you and why the window closes fast.

Re-roofing permits show up 3–10 days before a homeowner has locked in a contractor. Most roofers don't know this. The spring permit rush in Scarborough and Etobicoke is real and it's underused.

A plain-language breakdown of the permit feed: the fields that matter, what status codes mean, why the 24–48 hour lag matters, and what the data can't tell you on its own.