Before You Wire

Everyone will sell you a finder. We sell you the questions to consider.

Paste an address or listing. You get a confirmation when the file is in, then an 8-page pack that tests the public record — plus public sales, with the source, and five conditions to check.

Not a wiring-instruction check. Not an appraisal. A public-record devil’s advocate for the check you are about to write.

Not investment advice. The pack is the questions to ask and the pitfalls to check before you wire. It does not tell you to buy, to walk, or what to pay.

Live corridor: Sevier · Blount · Knox · Cocke. Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Wears Valley, Townsend, Maryville, Louisville, Knoxville.

No one on the other side of the deal is told. Not the seller, the broker, the landlord, the staff, or a neighbor. We do not call, write, tour, register, or leave a name. We do not disclose that you asked, what you might pay, or that a file exists. Your name and the address are not published. The pack is delivered to you.

What leaves the desk

The pack

$499

Findings. Records. Street. Demand. Public sales, with the source. Five conditions to check. The fee is $499, due before the work starts. The pack does not name a price to pay.

Every page is stamped: public-source first pass. Not an appraisal, and not legal, tax, engineering, or investment advice. AI assists the research. A person on the team reviews the pack before it leaves. Both are part of what you receive.

Where the desk hunts

Sevier

Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Wears Valley. First question is city versus county — a Pigeon Forge mailing address can sit in unincorporated Sevier. Then one permit stack: tourist residency, city STRU, or county Fire Marshal STRU. Septic bedrooms cap marketed occupancy.

Blount

Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Townsend. Main Street and riverfront more than cabin mills. TPAD, Blount GIS, tax roll. Flood, and whether the operator owns the building, show up in more files here than a missing tourist permit.

Knox

City of Knoxville Type 1 is owner-occupied in residential districts. Type 2 is non-owner-occupied in non-residential districts only. One address at a time on the county card. No bulk pulls.

Cocke

Newport and the Newport-to-park edge. TPAD plus trustee and delinquent-sale lists. Deeds are often paywalled — unavailable is a finding, not a blank.

Outside these four counties the first pass is waitlisted.

Who it is for

Searchers and operators looking at $200k–$2M cash businesses and STR portfolios in East Tennessee gateway counties. If a CIM is selling you a story, this pack tests the story.

Who it is not for: anyone who wants us to find deals, write outreach, appraise real estate, or bless a purchase. We do not find deals. We test the ones you already have.

How it works

Pay $499 on Stripe. The fee is due before the work starts. Stripe sends the receipt and the invoice.

After payment, name the address on the intake page.

Optional: attach a rent roll, P&L, or tax return on the same intake. The files are emailed to the desk and are not stored on the site. If an agreement with the seller forbids sharing the books, leave them off. The public-record pack still runs.

You get a confirmation that the file is in and the date the pack is due.

The desk starts the same day, from public sources only. You will have the pack by the due time. Under $1 million, one business day. From $1 million, two. From $2.5 million, three. At $5 million and above, four. Weekends do not count. Due by 5:00pm Eastern.

AI assists the research. A person on the team reviews the pack before it leaves. Both are part of what you receive.

You get the memo, the public-sales sheet, and five conditions to check. You decide what to do with it.