Run the deal-killer scorecard before you spend on diligence
Rung 8 of 10 · Fact-check list
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
Land is deceptively complicated: the ways a parcel quietly can't be built map to a short, knowable list of public-record layers, and missing one is how a cheap parcel turns into a dead one. The move is a red / yellow / green scorecard over the deal-killers, legal and physical access, wetlands, flood, slope, utilities, zoning and use, easements and encumbrances, driven by a fact-check list: each item gets a status ONLY from the data you paste, with the source named, and anything the paste doesn't cover is UNKNOWN and becomes a diligence order, never a green. The discipline that keeps it safe is the same one the environmental lesson uses: the scorecard never CLEARS the site. A green means 'the pasted record shows no problem on this layer,' not 'this is fine to build.' Access and wetlands and flood are determinations for the surveyor, the civil engineer, the wetlands consultant, and the planning department, and the scorecard routes every red and every UNKNOWN to the right one. You are triaging fifty parcels down to the five worth paying to diligence, not making the call on any of them.
Here's the parcel data and what the GIS layers show. Run a deal-killer check before I order diligence. [paste the parcel data and record references]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You're screening a 5-acre parcel before you spend on a survey and environmental. You paste what you pulled: the listing (5 acres, 'road frontage on County Rd 12'), the county GIS notes (parcel touches a mapped blue-line stream on the north edge; FEMA panel shows a Zone A strip along that stream; no utilities shown at the road), a zoning label ('RR-2, rural residential') that you have NOT confirmed with planning, and nothing on wetlands, soils, or easements. You want a red/yellow/green deal-killer scorecard that tells you what to order and what could kill it, without the AI clearing the site or inventing a layer you didn't paste. Write that prompt.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.