Every week, inspectors in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Fort Worth and New Orleans write thousands of repair orders — roofs, porches, masonry, plumbing, wiring — against specific addresses. The owner has to fix them. Most of them have no contractor lined up. WritWork pulls every one of those orders, groups them by property, and shows you only the ones in your city, your trade and your radius.
These are real orders written in the last few days, pulled live from the City of Chicago's own open-data service while this page loaded. Click any of them and we'll ask the city about that exact record again, in front of you, and show you what came back — with a link so you can fetch it from them yourself.
Source: Building Violations, City of Chicago — public record, updated daily by the Department of Buildings.
You aren't the fourth call that homeowner gets in an hour. Nobody sold this address to five of your competitors, because it isn't a lead anyone generated — it's a public order the city wrote.
Chicago has 1.16 million violations still marked open, and 92% of them were issued before 2024 — “open” mostly means “never formally closed”. We only ever show you the last few weeks, which is the part that is actually live.
An order tells you work is needed, not that anyone will hire you. Every property is read against its whole city record, so a landlord carrying an open order since 2006 is marked before you drive out there.
Every order has its own page that re-asks the city about it live, so you see today's status rather than ours. No mystery database, no scraped junk, no 'proprietary intent signals'.
Every order is sorted by what the city actually wrote in it. You see your trades and nothing else.
A preview: 5 good matches, shown 30 days late, with the city's own order text and a verification link on every record. Enough to satisfy yourself the data is real before you spend anything.
Create a free accountThe full feed, every morning — new orders within a day of the city publishing them, inspector notes, plus owner names and phone/email where public records have them. 90 days of searchable history, CSV export for your CRM, and a daily email of new matches. Owner contact is skip-traced, so verify it against county records. Cancel from Settings in a couple of clicks — no call, no retention offer.
Start free, upgrade when it paysWhat the paid plan buys is the part that wins jobs: the whole feed while it's fresh, and the intel on who to call. A lead you get a month late is worth roughly nothing — the free preview exists so you can verify the records are real, not so you can work from them.