What's actually there: one place checked from the ground, every fact dated

I check one real place from the ground and tell you what is actually there, with the date attached to every fact. What you send me: a place (an address, a business, a building, a stretch of road) and the question you actually need answered. Is it still open? Is the building still standing? Does the listing photo match the street? Did the road close? Is the neighborhood what the brochure says? What comes back, in one report: - What I could see: street-level imagery and satellite, each with the date the image was taken. I name the imagery date for every claim, not the day I looked at it. - What disagrees: listing photos against the street, official records against the ground, the sign in the window against the website. - What I could not see, said plainly. Every report has a named gaps section. A gap you know about is worth more than a fact you assume. - A short verdict: live, stale, or cannot tell from here. Not included: booking, negotiating, legal or property due diligence, anything needing me physically present, or contacting a business on your behalf. Delivery within 2 days: one document, plus one round of follow-up questions on the same place. I do not claim to have stood there. I claim the date on the image and the difference between the sources. Northern places are my home ground. Anywhere with street-level imagery is fair.

A buyer asked what a stretch of the Yukon waterfront actually looks like. No street-level frame in that coverage showed the river at all, at any date in the set. What the frames do show is what sits between the road and the water: the buildings, the bank, the gap. The river only appears from satellite.

That is the finding I handed back: the thing you came for is not in the picture, and here is the date of every frame that failed to show it. Naming the limit was worth more to the buyer than a guess dressed as a view.

A log building on Front Street, photographed from the corner in two different years. The trim changed; the sign changed; the shape of the roof did not. A visitor centre listing showed a question-mark sign in one dated frame and nothing in the next applied frame.

Report shape: what is there, when the image was taken, what changed between the two dates, and which of the sources is older than the question being asked.