What Montana Build Report is, and what it is not.

Montana Build Report is published by Montana Property Reports, LLC, an independent Montana company with no government affiliation. Everything below describes what that company does and does not claim.

Montana Build Report organizes available public data to help identify issues worth investigating. It does not replace site inspections, title work, surveying, engineering, permitting or professional due diligence.

It is preliminary property intelligence

We aggregate authoritative federal, state and county records for a single parcel, run geospatial analysis against that parcel’s mapped boundary, and translate the result into plain language with an explicit confidence level and source for every finding. The purpose is to tell you what deserves a professional’s attention — and what does not.

It is not any of the following

• Legal advice
• Land surveying or a boundary determination
• Title research or a title opinion
• Engineering or geotechnical analysis
• A wetland delineation or jurisdictional determination
• A septic permit, site evaluation or approval
• A zoning determination
• A building permit or any assurance that one will be issued
• A guarantee that a property can or cannot be built upon
• An appraisal, or a statement about value, insurability or insurance pricing

Specific limits worth stating twice

Flood. Being outside a mapped high-risk flood area is not an absence of flood risk, and an unmapped area carries no determination at all in either direction.

Wetlands. Mapped wetland features are photo-interpreted and are explicitly not jurisdictional determinations. Only a delineation and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determination answer the regulatory question.

Access. A mapped road is evidence that a physical route may exist. It is not evidence of legal access. Legal access is established by recorded documents and title work.

Soils and terrain. Soil mapping and elevation models describe landscape patterns at a scale coarser than a building envelope. Neither replaces test pits, a percolation test, a geotechnical investigation or a survey.

County rules. Montana counties differ enormously in what they regulate and publish. The authoritative answer for a specific parcel always comes from the office that administers it.

Independence

Montana Build Report is an independent informational tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the Montana State Library, Montana DNRC, the U.S. Geological Survey, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or any Montana county government.

Data currency

Every report records the date its data was accessed. Underlying datasets are refreshed on their own schedules and can lag reality: a recent sale, a new plat, an annexation, a map revision or a fresh county ordinance may not yet be reflected. A recent retrieval does not mean the underlying record or observation is recent.

Scores, estimates and absent records

Scores and cost estimates are planning aids. They are not approval, financing, price or construction guarantees. Models, scores, inferred associations and automated summaries can be wrong.

Missing zoning, covenant, utility, setback, environmental or other records do not establish freedom from restrictions, and a missing record or warning does not establish the absence of a hazard, restriction, right or obligation. A favorable score, a green color or the absence of a flag does not mean a property or an activity is safe, permitted or lawful.

Maps, parcel outlines, locations and distances are approximate, and regional datasets may not represent your precise site. These tools are not emergency monitoring or safety clearance. Do not use this service as your sole basis for a financial or safety decision.

What we promise, and what we do not

We are an independent publisher, not a government agency. Attribution and links do not mean an agency endorses our analysis, and our own scores are not official government determinations.

We do not promise that every record or estimate will be accurate, complete, current or continuously available, or that using this service will produce a particular result. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

None of that reduces what we owe you. It does not negate our delivery commitment, the seven-day satisfaction refund, or any right or remedy that cannot lawfully be waived. Nothing in these notices excuses fraud, willful injury, or a willful or negligent violation of law.

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