The file a buyer's lawyer reads.

Most permit calls from Harbor Beach start the same way: a municipal lien and permit search, two weeks before closing, turns up a permit nobody remembers pulling. A 1970s estate on Mercedes Drive re-roofed and never finaled. Impact glass swapped into a Del Lago Isle house one summer. An air conditioning changeout, an enclosed loggia, a generator dropped beside the garage, a boat lift added to an existing dock. Individually minor, all of it permittable, and none of it visible until a title company goes looking on somebody else's deadline.

Harbor Beach is inside Fort Lauderdale city limits, so permits come from the Development Services Department's Building Services Division through the LauderBuild portal, and city inspectors do the field work. Behind the city sits a county layer you will never file with: the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals publishes the county's code amendments, certifies the officials and inspectors who enforce them, and hears appeals of a ruling. Broward is High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so glass and roofing need a product approval valid for the HVHZ, with the anchor schedule that approval specifies. Dock and seawall work adds Broward County environmental licensing.

PGX Builders Group is a licensed general contractor, not a permit expediter. We file our own work, bring in the architect, structural engineer or surveyor a project actually needs, and meet the inspector on site rather than leaving you to explain the job. In practice that means a complete package before anything is submitted, review comments answered by us, inspections requested only when the work is genuinely ready, and a written record you can hand a title company later. Twenty years in South Florida, 150-plus remodels and additions, every one permitted. Shortcuts are not on the menu here. A requirement handled early is a requirement that stops mattering.