01 — Permit leads · Philadelphia
Every week, Philadelphia publishes the building permits it just issued. I pull the commercial plumbing ones and send you which plumbers are actually working.
Read this first. The City of Philadelphia stopped publishing project addresses, ZIP codes, property owners, and job values in its permit feed in March 2020. Every official feed since then leaves those fields blank. So this is contractor-activity data — who pulled commercial permits, in what trade, this week — not project addresses. Anyone selling “current” Philadelphia permits with job locations is selling data that stops in March 2020.
02 — What’s in a drop
Each drop is a spreadsheet (CSV + Excel) of commercial plumbing permits issued in Philadelphia in the last 7 days, pulled from the city’s open L&I records, updated daily at the source. Columns: permit number, issue date, permit type, type of work, contractor name as published, and the contractor’s published business address. That’s the contractor’s own business address — not the project address.
First Drop covers all commercial permit types. The plumbing filter is a Four Mondays and Full Quarter feature — on those, each drop is filtered to plumbing permits and includes a per-contractor count for the week, so you can see who’s busiest.
03 — What the data actually looks like
Permits issued September 21 – October 21, 2026. Stats last checked Oct 24, 2026:
Five real rows from a recent week (Oct 20, 2026) are on the Philadelphia permit leads page — same feed, same columns.
04 — Who buys it
Supplier and equipment-rental sales reps selling to plumbers. Plumbing distributors working a territory. GCs scouting which plumbing subs are busy and active. Commercial insurance agents. People who prospect plumbers, not addresses.
05 — Packages
One real week — the paid trial
$35
1 weekly drop
A month of Mondays, in a row
$115
4 consecutive weekly drops
Twelve weeks, plus the licenses sheet
$315
12 consecutive weekly drops
Extras: a 90-day backfill file is $50. A monthly new-business-licenses sheet is $25 for First Drop and Four Mondays buyers. Ask about contractor contact enrichment or other metros before ordering — those are custom quotes, not checkbox extras.
06 — How drops work
Drops go out every Monday, covering the previous Monday to Sunday. The cover sheet states the exact date range and row count. Thin week, thin count — I don’t pad lists to hit a number. Holiday weeks and bad-weather weeks run thinner. If a drop ever comes in under 50 commercial rows, message me and I’ll extend your package by a week. On multi-drop packages, each Monday’s file arrives in the Fiverr order messages, and the formal delivery at the end of the package contains the complete set.
07 — Order
Order on Fiverr — the $35 First Drop is the paid trial: one real week, priced so a sales rep can expense it without asking anyone. First Drop covers all commercial permit types — the plumbing filter starts with Four Mondays.
If a drop is wrong, message me and I’ll fix it — and if a drop ever comes in under 50 commercial rows, I’ll extend your package by a week.
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