Miami-Dade County, Florida
Considering a direct sale? Start with the property’s jurisdiction and the records behind it. ASN Home Buyers works with Miami-Dade homeowners and can meet locally to review the property.
County or municipality
Confirm whether the home is in unincorporated Miami-Dade or a municipality before choosing a records search. The County’s building-plan library covers unincorporated properties and directs municipal-property inquiries to the relevant municipality.
Check the County’s building-records guidanceGather the address, folio and any permit numbers you have. The County offers digitized plans, but its archive has gaps for older homes. Ask the records office what is available for the property; a missing plan does not answer whether the work was permitted.
Keep the notice and identify the issuing agency. Miami-Dade’s citation tool accepts a citation number, name, folio or the violator/party’s mailing address. The County says online results are not the official record; confirm the case with its Code Compliance Office.
Look up a County citationUnderstand the search scope
Miami-Dade’s Regulatory and Economic Resources department offers violations research for unincorporated properties. It covers listed enforcement categories and related liens. A lien payoff letter is a separate service for County code-enforcement liens.
If a lien appears, keep the recording or case reference and ask the issuing agency which service applies. Give the document to your title professional or attorney to assess its effect on your sale. Do not treat one departmental search as a complete property clearance.
Review County lien-research and payoff servicesConstruction history
For residential sales in unincorporated Miami-Dade, the County describes a contract disclosure concerning illegal construction and outstanding building or zoning violations. It also notes that work without permits may exist even when no violation has been identified.
If you know of an alteration but do not have its records, say so. Review the County’s guidance with your attorney before signing; an offer conversation does not resolve a code issue.
Read Miami-Dade’s residential-sale disclosure guidanceFor the date, see closing readiness. For repairs and cleanout, see selling as-is. The transaction sequence is on how the sale works. For a property in a neighboring county, see Broward County or Palm Beach County.
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Start with the address. If you have a permit question or a notice, mention it when you speak with ASN Home Buyers.
