How to read the record.

What each construction lead service sells, what it costs as published on its own site, where its data comes from, and when a sub, supplier, GC, lender or engineer should pick which. Written by a vendor, with the vendor's bias stated.

How the City of Austin reviews a site plan and a rezoning, what each case carries, how far ahead of the building permit they run, and which readers should be calling at which step.

Where the City of Austin publishes its permits, how to search them by address or contractor, what each field means, and what the phone number on the permit is worth to a sub or a supplier.

Where to find a City of Atlanta building permit and a DeKalb County permit application, what each carries (DeKalb has the phone and the email), how the city's planning cases run ahead of the permit, and what Fulton does not publish.

How Georgia records a land sale and a construction loan, why the price is not on the deed, what DeKalb publishes that Fulton does not, and how to turn a recorded security deed into a lead before the permit.

Florida records a notice of commencement before work starts, and it names the owner, the contractor and the lender. How it works under section 713.13, where Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach record it, and how subs, suppliers, lenders and insurers read it.

In Miami-Dade every trade on a job pulls its own permit, and each one names the subcontractor. How the shoring, concrete, electrical and mechanical permits sequence, what each tells a supplier or a competing sub, and how to read them the week they land.

How a Nashville project shows up in public, in order: the Metro Planning Commission case (rezonings, specific plans, PUDs, plats), the Metro Codes permit with the applicant, and the daily sale with buyer and, on most, the price. And what Tennessee does not record.

Where Tampa, Hillsborough County, St. Petersburg and Clearwater publish their permits, what the two county clerks record daily (deeds with price, mortgages with lender, notices of commencement), and how to read the set as leads on both sides of the bay.

How a Charlotte rezoning petition runs from filing to council vote, what Mecklenburg County publishes on a building permit (owner, cost, contractor, sometimes a phone), what the county roll carries on every parcel, and why there is no loan or notice of commencement to read in North Carolina.

Texas records a loan as a deed of trust with the county clerk, and it names the lender and the borrower while hiding the amount. Where Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton publish them, how to match one to a site, and what Fort Worth's permit feed adds that Dallas's does not.