PRE-LAUNCH PROGRAM CONCEPT · SUBJECT TO ISSUER APPROVAL, BOND COUNSEL REVIEW, AND PROGRAM UNDERWRITING
FOR DEVELOPERS · 1 TO 50 LOTS · PRE-LAUNCH

Your impact fees, paid at the permit counter.

INSITE pays your project's development impact fees from a note secured by a small special tax on your own lots, collected with the property tax bill. The structure big master-planned communities have used for decades, sized for small subdivisions.

It's not a loan to you. It's a line on the property tax bill.
You never repay the principal. The lots do.
Your cash stays in your pocket at the permit counter.

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How it works, start to finish

1

Check eligibility

Residential subdivisions in a participating California jurisdiction, finished or near-finished lots, amount capped at 25 percent of the lots' appraised value, minimum size set at screening. School fees excluded at launch.

2

Submit one data package

Title report, tract or parcel maps, project budget, your jurisdiction's posted fee schedule, entitlement status, entity documents. One submission, one yes-or-no screening answer.

3

Underwriting

An independent MAI appraiser values your lots to State Treasurer (CDIAC) standards, and the amount cannot exceed 25 percent of that value. The projected tax on a finished home is benchmarked against the two-percent-of-value policy used by the state's largest issuer.

4

Join by signature

Your parcels annex into the master district with your written consent as landowner. No public hearing, no election, no campaign: paperwork and a recording (Government Code 53339.3, 53339.7).

5

Funding at closing

Note proceeds pay your eligible impact fees directly, and the deal's costs are paid alongside them, so your day-one cash is zero. The costs, both rolled into the note: an origination fee set as a percentage of the amount paid, stated on your term sheet, plus hard costs targeted at $5,000 to $30,000 (a founder estimate, pending vendor quotes).

6

Build and sell

While you hold a lot, its annual special tax is a carrying cost on the county tax bill. When a home sells, the obligation transfers to the buyer with standard Mello-Roos disclosure in escrow, and buyer protections are fixed in the recorded formula.

What it is not

This is not a loan to you. You never sign a personal guarantee, and nobody ever sends you a bill to pay the money back. Instead, each lot picks up a small yearly charge on its property tax bill, and that charge pays the money back over time. It is not free: you pay the deal's setup costs, and any lot you still own pays its yearly charge until it sells. It does not work everywhere: your city or county has to be signed up first. And no number is final until you have a signed term sheet in your hand.

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