Operations General Contractors Metro Detroit
The crew is ready, the material is on site, and the job is sitting still because a permit is stuck on someone's desk.
We pull permits, schedule inspections and track every open item for general contractors so jobs stop waiting on paperwork.
21,840
General contractors in metro detroit
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Homes for each one
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Renaissance Center, Detroit
Metro Detroit
It is a Tuesday morning in Metro Detroit and your crew is parked outside a job that cannot move until the rough inspection passes. The inspection was supposed to be yesterday, the city portal still says pending, and nobody in the office knows who to call.
With permit management in place, every application goes in complete the first time, with the right drawings, forms and fees. Inspections get requested as soon as the work is ready, results get logged the day they come back, and corrections get scheduled before the crew leaves the area.
The waiting shrinks. Your project manager sees every open permit and inspection on one list, your office stops chasing portals and phone trees, and jobs close on time instead of waiting on paperwork.
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Fix this in Metro DetroitWe learn your trade, the cities you work in and how your team hands off a job that needs a permit.
Every open permit and inspection goes on one list with dates, status and the next step.
We prepare and submit applications, request inspections and follow up with building departments.
We chase finals and closeouts, and report on what is still open every month.
What we report every month: Open permits and their age, Days from application to approval, Inspections passed on the first try, and Permits finaled and closed.
A permit expediter prepares and submits applications, tracks them through review, schedules inspections and follows up until the permit is finaled. The contractor of record still holds the license and responsibility. The expediter handles the paperwork and the follow-up so the crew can keep working.
Your fee depends on how many permits you pull, how many cities you work in and how complex the work is. A residential service shop pulling routine trade permits is straightforward. Commercial work with plan review and many inspections takes more time. City fees are separate and passed through as they are charged.
Across Metro Detroit, each city and township runs its own building department, with its own forms, portal and inspection rules. Detroit works through its own buildings department, while a small township might have one inspector and a phone line. Knowing each one's habits saves days.
Most failed inspections come from small things: a missing label, an access panel, a correction from last time nobody fixed. A short pre-inspection checklist for each type of job catches most of them. We log every correction so the same miss does not repeat.
A permit that never gets finaled can surface years later when a home sells or a building changes hands. It can also slow down your next permit in that city. Closing every permit is part of finishing the job, even after the check clears.
Works when volume is low, but permits get squeezed between calls and nobody owns the follow-up.
Worth it for heavy commercial volume, but a salary for most contractors.
We prepare and submit permits, schedule inspections, track every open item and close them out.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Metro Detroit general contractors with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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