Terms of service

Effective September 11, 2026. These terms are between you, a business subscribing to the weekly owner report, and Melting Wax Studios, which builds and runs PermitRadar (permitradarhq.com). Contact: [email protected]. Florida law governs.

Plain summary: you get a weekly report of building permits in your area joined to the owner's name and mailing address. The first four weeks are free with no card; after that it is $349 a month per area, billed by email invoice, only once you have said yes in writing, and you can cancel any month by email. One business per area and per trade. We supply no phone numbers, and what you do with the list has to follow the law.

1. What is delivered

The Weekly Owner Report: every building permit issued in your area for the previous county week, as a web page and a CSV, emailed on Mondays. Each row carries the issue date, permit type and scope, site address, declared value, contractor, owner of record, owner mailing address, homestead status, last sale and year built, as published by Lee County Community Development and the Lee County Property Appraiser. Coverage is Lee County, Florida: the unincorporated county and Cape Coral. Names and mailing addresses only. The report contains no telephone numbers, mobile numbers, fax numbers or email addresses, and we do not append any.

2. Area and exclusivity

• An area is up to six ZIP codes or one named community (for example Estero, North Fort Myers or Lehigh Acres), listed in writing when your subscription starts. Changing the list is done by email and takes effect the next Monday, subject to availability.
• One business per area and per trade. Your trade or segment (for example pool enclosures, roofing, property management, real estate brokerage) is named on your invoice. Nobody else in that trade receives the report for that area while you subscribe. Other trades in the same area are sold separately.
• Exclusivity is subject to availability at sign-up. If an area and trade is already taken you are told so and offered a waiting list or a neighbouring area.
• When you cancel, or your free weeks end without a yes, the area and trade are released and may be offered to someone else.
• If we sell your area and trade to a second business while you subscribe, your remedy is a refund of that month's fee for that area and the right to cancel at once.

3. Free weeks and billing

• First four weeks free. No card, no payment details, no obligation. Reports simply stop after the fourth Monday unless you say yes.
• Then $349 per area per month, billed by email invoice, and only after you have confirmed in writing (an email is enough) that you want to continue. Nothing is charged automatically and there is no automatic renewal without your written agreement.
• Invoices are due within 15 days. Reports continue through the paid month.
• Cancel any month by email, including by replying to any report. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid month; there is no partial-month refund and no cancellation fee.
• Prices change only with 30 days' written notice, and never within a month already invoiced.

4. Permitted use

The report is licensed for your own business use: reading it, mailing or visiting the properties, contacting the named contractor, and loading it into your own systems. You may not resell, sublicense, publish or redistribute the report or any list compiled from it, or share it with another business in your trade. The underlying county records remain public and nothing here restricts anyone from obtaining them from the county.

5. Your responsibility for how the list is used

• You are solely responsible for complying with every law that applies to your use of the report, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 U.S.C. 227), the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (Florida Statute 501.059), the federal and Florida do-not-call registries, CAN-SPAM, and the rules on solicitation and advertising that apply to your licence or trade.
• We supply no telephone numbers precisely so that the report cannot be used for telephonic sales calls as delivered. We make no representation that any person in the report may be contacted by telephone, text message or email, and no representation that any property is for sale.
• You will indemnify and hold Melting Wax Studios harmless from any claim, penalty, fine or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your contact with any person or property identified in a report or from your breach of these terms.
• If we forward a removal request from an owner, you will stop contacting that person and delete the row from any list you keep.

6. The data, honestly

• Every field is a public record republished as the county published it. The county may publish a permit late, revise it, or omit it; the parcel file lags sales and ownership changes; declared values are the applicant's figure for permit fees, not a construction cost or a property value.
• Nothing in the report is estimated or enriched from private sources. A homestead exemption means the owner claims the property as a primary residence; its absence does not prove the owner lives elsewhere, and a brand-new house has no exemption yet.
• Verify before relying. Check the county record before you act on a row. The report is provided as is, without warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for a purpose.
• Our total liability under these terms is limited to the fees you paid for the report in the three months before the claim. Because the free weeks cost nothing, liability during the free weeks is nil.

7. Removal of individuals

We remove any individual from future reports on request, and honour every exemption under Florida Statute 119.071 that we are told about, within one business day. See the privacy notice for how to ask.

8. Free public pages

The weekly pages under /permits/ and the monthly reports are free to read and to quote with credit ("PermitRadar, permitradarhq.com"); our compilations are licensed CC BY 4.0. They show no owner names or mailing addresses. They are informational, may lag the county record, and carry the same disclaimer as section 6.

9. General

• PermitRadar is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for Lee County, the Lee County Property Appraiser, the City of Cape Coral, or any other government office.
• These terms are the whole agreement for the report unless we agree something different with you in writing. If a clause is unenforceable the rest stands.
• Florida law governs; disputes go to the state or federal courts sitting in Florida.
• These terms change only by editing this page and updating the date at the top; a change that affects a paying subscriber is emailed 30 days before it applies.

Questions: [email protected].