Clear the file before you sell.

Half the permitting calls we take from Lighthouse Point begin with a title search. A reroof on a Venetian Isles ranch that was never signed off. A pool cage in Coral Key Villas replaced after a storm with nothing filed. A Florida room in Lighthouse Manor enclosed sometime around 1978 and still showing as a screened porch on the record. Houses here have changed hands and changed shape for sixty years, and the paperwork has not always kept pace. The rest of the calls are happier: an owner about to start something real who wants the file ahead of the work instead of chasing it later.

The permit itself is a City of Lighthouse Point matter, handled by the Building and Zoning Department through the city's online permitting portal, and contractors have to be registered with the city before they can pull one. Above that sits a layer you will never file with. The Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals is where the county's amendments to the Florida Building Code live, it certifies the plans examiners and inspectors who will handle your file, and it hears the appeal when a call needs one. Broward is High-Velocity Hurricane Zone territory, so glass, doors and roofing carry HVHZ approvals, and anything in or over the canal adds county environmental licensing.

The permit goes out under our license, CGC1539072. PGX Builders Group is a general contractor rather than a paperwork service, so accountability arrives with the signature. We read the address history before promising anything, engage the engineer, architect or surveyor a complete submittal genuinely requires, resolve plan review comments in one cycle instead of dragging the file through three, and stand on the site when the inspector arrives. Twenty-plus years of South Florida work, 150-plus remodels and additions, all of it permitted and inspected. We do not call a job finished because the punch list is. We call it finished when the city's record for your address is clear.