Permit help • Unincorporated Miami-Dade • RER

Unincorporated Miami-Dade permit specialists.

Unincorporated Miami-Dade is the county-administered service area outside any incorporated municipality. Permits, code enforcement, and inspections run through Miami-Dade's Regulatory and Economic Resources Department (RER) and the county Building Division — not through a city building department. That distinction matters because the application, fee schedule, inspection process, and code-enforcement workflow are all different from those in Coral Gables, Doral, Miami Beach, or any other incorporated city. We resolve permit violations, open permits, after-the-fact permits, and code-compliance cases across all unincorporated MDC neighborhoods.

Common unincorporated MDC cases

Four case types we resolve regularly across unincorporated Miami-Dade.

01
Open building permits surfacing at sale or refinance
Unincorporated Miami-Dade has a high volume of legacy open permits from additions, screen enclosures, pool work, and impact-window installations that were never finaled. They appear during title searches, refinance underwriting, and four-point inspections. We pull the file from RER, schedule the missing final inspection, address any deficiencies, and close the permit against the property record.
02
After-the-fact permits on unpermitted exterior work
Pergolas, sheds, fences, screen enclosures, and outbuildings built without a permit are common in the larger lots typical of unincorporated areas. We legalize through the after-the-fact pathway — as-built drawings, structural engineering, HVHZ wind-load calculations, NOA documentation, and final inspection.
03
Code-enforcement violations from RER
Miami-Dade Code Compliance citations on unincorporated properties accrue daily fines starting at $250+ per day after the cure period. We respond to the Notice of Violation, scope the corrective work, file the after-the-fact permit when required, and pursue mitigation to reduce accumulated assessments.
04
Permit applications for new exterior projects
New pergolas, fences, decks, ADUs, and additions in unincorporated MDC follow the RER permit process — different in detail from each incorporated municipality but with its own established workflow. We prepare the application, coordinate engineering, manage plan review, and shepherd the permit through final inspection.
The jurisdiction

Why unincorporated MDC is its own thing.

Miami-Dade's Regulatory and Economic Resources Department (RER) operates the county's building, planning, zoning, and code-compliance functions at 11805 SW 26th Street. Unincorporated properties are anywhere within Miami-Dade County that has not been annexed into one of the incorporated cities — a meaningful share of the county's residential land, including most of Kendall, much of South Dade, Country Walk, Hammocks, parts of Cutler Bay-adjacent areas, Princeton, Naranja, Leisure City, Goulds, and the agricultural zones west of the Urban Development Boundary.

The boundary between incorporated and unincorporated matters because it determines which permit office your case goes through. A property on one side of a street may be in the City of Pinecrest with a Pinecrest building department; the property across the street may be unincorporated MDC with RER. Same county, different review processes, different fee schedules, different inspection scheduling. We pull the property folio first, confirm jurisdiction, and route the case correctly from day one.

How we work an unincorporated MDC case

Four steps from intake to closed file.

01
You send us the address or folio
A specialist pulls your property's record from Miami-Dade RER, Building Division, and code-compliance files within one business day. We confirm jurisdiction (unincorporated vs. incorporated) before scoping anything.
02
Resolution path delivered in writing
You receive a written summary: every open issue, what each requires, the realistic timeline, and a written estimate.
03
We resolve directly with the county
We file, follow up, attend code-enforcement hearings if required, and coordinate inspections directly with RER staff.
04
Closed out against the property record
Final inspection passed, certificate retrieved, file closed. Documented for title pulls, refinance underwriting, and insurance review.
Service areas in unincorporated Miami-Dade

Every neighborhood, every zip code.

We serve every unincorporated neighborhood across the county — Kendall, Kendall West, The Hammocks, Country Walk, parts of West Kendall, Sunset, Westchester (unincorporated portions), South Miami Heights, Cutler-adjacent unincorporated pockets, Richmond West, Three Lakes, Pinewood, Goulds, Princeton, Naranja, Leisure City, Redland, and the agricultural communities west of the Urban Development Boundary.

We also work the boundary cases where it's unclear whether a property is unincorporated or inside an incorporated city — we verify jurisdiction with the property folio before recommending any action. Common adjacent municipalities with mixed boundaries: Pinecrest, Coral Gables, Homestead, Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, South Miami.

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