Close the permits before the closing.

Ponce-Davis and High Pines have been quietly improved for seventy years. Carports off Davis Road became garages, then bedrooms. Screened porches picked up air conditioning and drywall. Cabanas, generators, and pool decks appeared behind the hedges on Ponce de Leon Road and around Stonegate without anyone checking what the county file said about them. Much of that work was permitted properly. Some of it was not, and the discovery never arrives at a convenient hour; it arrives when a title search, a lender, or an insurance underwriter finally pulls the address. Those calls usually reach us with a closing date already on the calendar.

Because this pocket is unincorporated, there is no city hall to walk into. Work is filed with Miami-Dade County's Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, RER, through the county's e-permitting portal, and the contractor pulling the permit has to be licensed and registered with the county. Building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and roofing each carry a separate permit and separate inspections. Taking down a protected oak needs its own DERM approval. Every exterior opening and roof system needs product documentation valid for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Coral Gables and South Miami wrap around these streets without taking them in, so the folio decides where a permit is filed.

We are a general contractor, not a paperwork courier, and the difference shows in how a submittal gets built. PGX coordinates the architect, engineer, or arborist a package actually requires, assembles the drawings so plan review asks its questions once rather than three times, and answers comments in writing where there is a record of them. Inspections are sequenced into the build and attended by our own supervisor instead of left to whichever sub arrives first. You get a fixed written scope, a permit history that reads clean to a buyer's attorney, and one licensed team, CGC1539072, behind two decades of permitted work in South Florida.