Clean permits before the closing table.

Most South Miami houses are on at least their third life. A 1950s block ranch in Twin Lakes or Bird Road Estates loses its carport to a family room in the seventies, gains a bathroom in the nineties, and gets the kitchen opened up sometime after that. Some of that work went through the city. Some of it went in over a long weekend. Nobody sorts out which is which until somebody with money on the line pulls the permit record: a buyer's attorney, a refinance underwriter, a carrier deciding whether to keep writing the policy. By then there is a date on the calendar.

Inside the city limits, permits are filed with the City of South Miami Building Department, a small office with its own plan reviewers, inspectors and online permitting portal. New construction and two-story additions to a residence also need approval from the city's Design Review Board, still known locally as the ERPB, and facades in the Cambridge Lawns Historic District need a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Board. Windows, doors and roof systems need High-Velocity Hurricane Zone product approvals. A South Miami mailing address is no guarantee of a South Miami permit: High Pines, Ponce-Davis and much of Glenvar Heights are unincorporated Miami-Dade and file with the county.

Permitting here is construction management, not an errand run ahead of the real work. PGX lines up whichever design professional the drawings call for, and the package crosses the counter complete, because a submittal short one sheet waits behind everything that is not. Plan review comments come back answered on paper. Inspections are booked and met by our supervisor rather than by whichever subcontractor happens to be closest. You get a fixed written scope, one accountable team, and a permit record that reads clean line by line, backed by 20+ years and 150+ permitted projects in South Florida.