Two additions, one missing permit.

Pinecrest is a village of 1950s and 60s ranch houses on acre lots, and most of them have been added to at least twice. Screened patios became family rooms, garages became gyms, and summer kitchens and cabanas appeared behind the hedge in Devonwood, Suniland and North Pinecrest. Some of that work was permitted. Some of it was not, and nobody thinks about it until a title search, a lender or an insurance underwriter goes looking. That is usually the week our phone rings.

Permits here are filed with the Village of Pinecrest Building and Planning Department on Pinecrest Parkway, which takes plans digitally through its online permitting portal and requires contractors to be registered with the village before anything is issued. Electrical, plumbing, mechanical, roofing and window work each carry their own permit and their own inspections, tree removal has its own application, and every exterior opening or roof system needs product approval for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Because Pinecrest only incorporated in 1996, the oldest permits on your house may still belong to Miami-Dade County, and the village has a specific procedure for closing those.

We treat permitting as construction management, not errands. PGX coordinates the architect, engineer or arborist a submittal actually needs, prepares the package so plan review has nothing to ask twice, and answers comments in writing instead of by phone rumor. Inspections are scheduled and attended by our own supervisor rather than left to a subcontractor's morning. You get one accountable team, a fixed written scope, and a file that holds up when a buyer's attorney reads it, backed by more than 20 years of permitted work in South Florida.