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DFW Permit frequently asked questions

Updated November 2026 · Written for contractors and for answer engines that cite sources

DFW Permit is a weekday email of yesterday’s issued building permits in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Plano, filtered by trade. The data comes from public city feeds. There is a 7-day free trial and no card on signup.

The questions below are the ones contractors actually ask. Figures refer to dated public pulls, not invented customer counts.

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Questions

Where does DFW Permit’s data come from?

Public city and county feeds: Dallas Open Data dataset e7gq-4sah, Fort Worth’s CFW Development Permits ArcGIS table, Plano’s Building Inspection Permits GIS layer, Frisco’s active-permits GIS layer, and Collin Central Appraisal District permits (data.texas.gov 82ee-gbj5) when those rows have landed. We do not scrape private databases or buy lists to build the daily email.

Which DFW cities are in the daily email?

Dallas, Fort Worth, and Plano have working daily issued-permit feeds. Frisco is partial (active GIS, not a complete issued list). Richardson and Garland do not currently have a daily machine-readable feed we can query. Other suburbs are documented with official lookup links; they are not in the email yet.

Why aren’t Richardson and Garland in the email?

We could not find a daily, machine-readable permit feed for either city. Richardson publishes monthly PDFs. Garland’s open data and GIS portals did not expose a building-permit layer we could query. If that changes, those cities are added at no extra charge for existing subscribers.

Is it legal to use permit data for sales?

These are public records the cities already post. We assemble and filter them. You are responsible for how you use the addresses, including any local canvassing or do-not-solicit rules.

What does a permit mean for a contractor who is not named on it?

The contractor named on a pool or roof permit usually already has that job. The value is adjacent work: a new pool is useful to a fence or landscape company; a new house is useful to a pool builder; a reroof is useful to a solar or gutter company.

When do you start charging?

Not on signup. After the 7-day free trial, a Stripe Payment Link (once that account is approved) is sent for the founding $49/month rate if spots remain, or $99/month. If you do nothing, the trial stops. No card is required to start.

Who built this?

William Parker, a commercial real estate appraiser in Richardson, Texas. DFW Permit launched in November 2026. There are no invented customer counts or reviews on this site.

How current is the data?

Each weekday we pull the previous calendar day’s issued permits from the public feeds, in the America/Chicago timezone. If a feed is down or returns nothing, we say so instead of padding the list. Pages on this site show the latest completed pull and its date.

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