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How to Use Due Dili: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smarter Property Research

New to Due Dili? Here's exactly how to search properties, read insights, upload documents, and get the most out of the platform from day one.

June 25, 20267 min readBy Due Dili Team

If you've landed here, you're probably trying to figure out what Due Dili actually does and how to use it. Good. That's exactly what this guide is for.

Due Dili is a property intelligence platform. It takes the documents that exist around a real estate transaction — HOA records, inspection reports, seller disclosures, permits — runs them through an AI extraction layer, and surfaces structured insights mapped to a specific property address. Red flags, yellow warnings, green positives, timelines, items to verify. All organized, all attached to a pin on a map.

Here's how to actually use it.

Step 1: Search for a Property

Start at the search bar on the homepage or the interactive map at myduedili.com/map. Type in any property address. If there's already data on that property, you'll land on its property page and see what's been documented. If not, you can create a property pin and start building its profile.

You don't need an account to browse. Anyone can search any address and see what's been documented. That's intentional — the whole point is that this information should be accessible before you're emotionally committed to a purchase, not after.

Step 2: Understand the Property Scores

At the top of every property page you'll see three scores:

Due Dili Score measures how the property stacks up based on the extracted flags across all analyzed documents. A higher score means the documented picture is relatively clean. A lower score means there are meaningful red flags in the record.

Coverage Score reflects how many document types have been analyzed. A property with only one uploaded document has a low coverage score — not because it's problematic, but because there isn't enough information yet to paint a complete picture.

Data Age Score reflects how recent the documents are. A Reserve Study from 2019 tells you less about today's HOA financial health than one from 2024. The Data Age Score factors this in.

The combination that should make you pay closest attention: a high Coverage Score with a low Due Dili Score. That means there's a lot of data on this property, and it's not painting a pretty picture.

Step 3: Look at the Document Tabs

Below the scores you'll see document type tabs — things like CC&Rs, Reserve Study, Inspection Report, Budget & Financials, Bylaws, Insurance. Each tab represents a category of document that has been processed and analyzed.

Free users can see which document types exist and a summary of how many red, yellow, and green flags were found in each one. It's enough to know whether a property warrants a closer look — and to understand where the issues are concentrated. A Reserve Study with four red flags is a very different situation than an Inspection Report with four red flags.

Step 4: Unlock Full Insights

To see the actual flag details, timelines, and items to verify, you have two options:

$6.99 one-time gives you full access to a single property — lifetime access, no subscription required. You pay once and that property's complete AI insights are yours to reference at any point.

$19.99/month Premium gives you unlimited access across all properties on the platform. If you're actively searching and comparing multiple properties, this is the right option.

If you're seriously considering a purchase, $6.99 is the easiest decision you'll make in the entire transaction. The alternative is finding out about a $38,000 reserve fund shortfall after you're under contract, when the clock is running and your negotiating leverage is at its lowest.

Step 5: Read the Flags — All of Them

When you unlock a property, you'll see every extracted flag organized by document and by category. Don't just look at the red flags and stop there.

Red flags are the urgent items — things that represent significant risk, financial exposure, or conditions that require immediate attention. But yellow flags are where due diligence often lives. A yellow flag on an aging water heater, a pending rule change in the HOA, or a history of deferred maintenance on the building exterior might not be a dealbreaker — but they're worth asking about, verifying, and potentially negotiating around.

Green flags matter too. A property with well-funded reserves, a recently replaced HVAC, and no active litigation is a meaningfully different purchase than one where none of those things can be confirmed.

The items to verify section is also worth spending time on. These are the things the AI flagged as requiring independent confirmation — items where the document raises a question that can't be answered from the document alone. These are your due diligence checklist.

Step 6: Upload Documents You Have

If you have documents on a property — an inspection report from a deal you walked away from, HOA records you obtained during due diligence, a seller disclosure you received — you can upload them directly to that property's page.

Your identity is never shown publicly. Documents are processed privately and only the extracted insights are displayed. The original file stays locked in our system and is never accessible to other users.

This is how the platform grows. Every upload makes the data denser, more useful, and more trustworthy for the next person researching that address. If you walked away from a deal because of problems the seller wouldn't address, uploading your documents means the next buyer doesn't have to discover those same problems from scratch.

Step 7: Use the Map for Neighborhood Context

Beyond individual property pages, the interactive map gives you neighborhood-level context. You can see which properties in an area have been documented, how they score relative to each other, and start to develop a sense of which streets, complexes, or communities have the most complete and favorable records.

This is particularly useful if you're still narrowing down neighborhoods. A Summerlin community where a dozen properties have strong Due Dili Scores and high Coverage Scores tells you something real about how that association manages its affairs.

What Due Dili Is Not

Due Dili is not a replacement for a professional inspection. It's not legal advice. It's not a guarantee that a property is problem-free because no red flags have been extracted yet — it's possible a property simply hasn't had any documents uploaded yet.

It's a research tool. A starting point. A way to walk into a showing, an offer, or a negotiation knowing more than you did before — and more than most buyers ever do.

For a deeper look at how buyers specifically can get the most out of the platform, read our guide: How Buyers Can Get the Most Out of Due Dili.

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