About the name
Buyer Be Aware is the brand. Caveat emptor, or “buyer beware,” is the older legal phrase it riffs on.
The phrase puts the burden on the buyer to inspect a house before buying it. We thought the burden was unfair without tools to actually meet it, so we built one. Reports pull flood maps, permits, code violations, ownership and sale history, environmental risk, schools, and insurability into a single page on a specific address.
More on how the data gets pulled is in our methodology page.
Buyer-paid
No agent referral fees. The buyer pays once and the report is theirs. No upsells, no monthly subscription.
Public records first
FEMA, EPA, USGS, Census, state regulators, FBI UCR. Authoritative sources, with citations. Where a record is uncertain, we say so.
One address, one report
Address-specific, not generic. Each report is generated on demand for a single US residential address.
Try it for free
The free check returns the FEMA flood zone and assigned school district for any US address, no signup. The paid report adds 25+ more sources.