LotRead is a background check for the home you're about to buy — available for almost any U.S. address. Deed history, permits, liens, flood risk, zoning, and HOA rules, pulled from primary public records, written in plain English, and delivered to your inbox, often the same day.
Tell us your situation and we'll point you to the right report. Every one is built from the same primary records — deeds, permits, court filings, assessor and FEMA data.
Know what you're walking into before the offer — title, permits, liens, flood, and the red flags a listing won't show you.
→ Buyer Research report Run it →Short-term-rental ROI projections plus a check on whether the town's rules actually let you run an Airbnb there.
→ Vacation Rental ROI · STR Compliance Run it →Get an alert the moment anything is recorded against your address: a new lien, a deed change, or an assessment that just jumped.
→ Watch My Home · Tax Monitor · LienWatch Set it up →Under contract? Walk into the inspection knowing the permit gaps and prior-work history to ask your inspector about.
→ Pre-Inspection Brief Run it →The docs you'd never read on your own — special assessments, reserve health, rental caps, and pet rules — pulled and summarized.
→ HOA / Condo Pack Run it →Buying somewhere you've never lived? A neighborhood-and-property dossier so the first place you see in person isn't your first read on the area.
→ Relocation Dossier Run it →Not a data dump — a written, source-cited briefing you can actually read. Here's a live look at the kind of report that lands in your inbox.
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Each report is compiled from official public records and written as a formatted, plain-English document — not a raw data feed. Start with the five most-requested below.
The full pre-offer dossier for a home you're about to buy — title, permits, liens, flood, zoning, and a plain-English risk summary.
Is this address a viable short-term rental? Projected revenue, expenses, and net ROI — with the local rules that make or break it.
Whether a short-term rental is even legal at an address — registration rules, caps, and the ordinances you have to follow to operate.
White-glove diligence for a high-value purchase — deep title, litigation, environmental, and ownership-structure research, hand-reviewed.
Already own? Get notified the instant anything is recorded against your address — a lien, a deed change, or a sudden assessment jump.
Pre-Inspection Brief, HOA/Condo Pack, Pre-Foreclosure Brief, Relocation Dossier, Portfolio Dashboard — built for the rest of the situations above.
Billing launches soon. Submit an address now and we'll confirm scope and price before any charge — no payment required to start.
No account to create, no portal to learn. Give us an address and an email — we do the digging and send back something you can read.
Type the property address and your email, and tell us what you're trying to figure out. Takes about a minute.
We pull the deed, permits, liens, court filings, assessor, zoning, and FEMA data from primary public sources — and cite every claim.
A clean, plain-English report with a clear bottom line — often the same day, and we'll always tell you the timing up front.
LotRead is the consumer side of Parser LLC, a Massachusetts property-research company. We don't resell a third-party data feed — we go to the same primary sources a title researcher or attorney would: the Registry of Deeds, municipal building departments, assessor databases, court dockets, and FEMA flood maps.
Then we do the part those sources don't: we read it, connect it, and write it up in language a normal person can act on. Every line in a LotRead report points back to a specific filed document — a deed book and page, a permit number, an assessor record — so you can verify it yourself or hand it to your agent, lender, or attorney.
LotRead is a research service, not legal, tax, or financial advice. We give you an accurate, organized picture of a property so you can make the call — or get a professional the head start to make it with you.
Questions? Email [email protected].
Each data point links to a filed document, deed book/page, or permit number. No black-box conclusions.
Buyer Research and investment reports run on any U.S. address. Home-monitoring is deepest in Massachusetts.
A clear bottom line up top, the detail underneath. No jargon, no 80-page PDF you'll never open.
Most reports land the same business day — many within a few hours. We confirm timing before you commit.
Tell us the property and what you're trying to figure out — we'll confirm scope and price before any charge.
We've logged your request and started on the records. We'll follow up by email with the scope, timing, and price before any charge.
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Enter an address and get a clear, source-cited picture of what you're really getting into.
Run a report →Built on primary public records · Plain English · Often delivered same day