Using Permit Data to Uncover Home Services Opportunities

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Many business owners and operators think building permit data is valuable information for builders. (It is.) It’s also helpful to construction companies, real estate professionals, and economic forecasters. What they don’t realize is many home services organizations regularly utilize building permit data sorts from Construction Monitor.

“Yes, the mailing labels feature is nice, but…”

There are no “buts” about it. Home services opportunities can be found using local, targeted building permit data. While your competition is struggling to stay afloat, your home services company will sail toward profits, thanks to lead-generating building permit data.

What Are Home Services?

When was the last time you changed your car’s oil? As an industry, home services is the new Jiffy Lube®. U.S. home services cover installation, assembly, repair, maintenance and sales of:

  • Carpet/flooring
  • Electronics
  • Furniture
  • General “handyman” projects
  • Housecleaning
  • HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning)
  • Interior décor
  • Landscaping
  • Lawn/garden
  • Lighting
  • Moving/storage
  • Plumbing
  • Property management
  • SmartHome devices
  • Swimming pools/hot tubs
  • Walls/treatments/repairs
  • Windows/cleaning/treatments

As if any additional assurance was needed, Amazon is now getting into the home services market. If you’re a home services organization, that’s a big affirmation you’re in the right place at the right time.

Lead-Generating Tools: Construction Monitor Packs a Punch

You can pull permits based on contractors, developers, owners, builders, architects, tenants, and most important, area. You can take the data down to zip codes and even addresses.

The building permit data is updated weekly, and that’s become the bare minimum timeframe for new and reconfigured marketing development. As you know from experience, the world can change direction in under 30 days.

When homeowners apply for building permits, you can learn what they plan to do – and let them know how you can help – while they’re still considering contractors. (Or at the time contractors are considering subcontractors). You can organize the information in a way that works for you. Do you want to reinforce relationships? You can review every job you’ve investigated by the year, and it includes contact information.

As always, the go-getters get the jobs; they get the clients. One company may have all the bells and whistles available and still get squashed by a smaller company with fewer tools – but more aggression and desire.

If you must limit your tools for business development, choose the best and maximize their capabilities. We can point you in the right direction. If you want to generate leads for your home services company using building permit data, contact Construction Monitor.

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