Elizabeth Hamburg
CEO, Nash Permits
Why Contractors Choose a Local Nashville Permit Expediter
Permitting isn’t one-size-fits-all.
Every jurisdiction has its own requirements, processes, departments, and personalities. Knowing what to submit is important. Knowing who to contact, what questions to ask, and how to keep an application moving is just as important.
Local isn’t a marketing angle. It’s the whole advantage.
NashPermits is a woman-owned, Nashville-owned company. Elizabeth Hamburg was born and raised here and came up in the construction industry — her family builds in Middle Tennessee, commercial and residential. So when your project needs something from a plan reviewer, a zoning office, or a codes inspector, it isn’t a cold call.
Nashville native
Born and raised here. She knows Davidson County and the counties around it — how each one actually runs, not just what the website says.
Raised in construction
Family in commercial and residential construction. Plan sets, inspections, and schedules were dinner-table conversation long before they were a job.
Connected on both sides
Relationships across the trades and inside local zoning, planning, building, and codes departments. When something stalls, she knows who to call.
Why that beats a national permit service
- Learns your jurisdiction from a database
- You’re a ticket in a queue, handled by whoever is free
- One national process, applied the same in every county
- Escalating means waiting on a callback
- Support in another time zone, with no local context
- Has worked with these departments and the people in them
- You work with the owner, start to finish
- Adjusts to how Metro, Williamson, Rutherford and the rest actually operate
- Escalating means a phone call to someone she knows
- Same-day answers, local hours, local context
What clients say
“Elizabeth is our go-to resource for all things permitting. She has a vast knowledge of the codes process and is able to significantly expedite our permitting times, allowing us to better focus on our construction projects.”
“Nash permits pulled out all the stops! My builder thought it would take months to get our permit, but NashPermits got it done in record time! Not only are they quick, but a local business, which I love to support local, so they will be my go to for any projects going forward!”
“You gotta use these guys. Elizabeth got our permit pushed through in just a few days. 100% worth the price to get our project going.”
Our approach
We bring hands-on experience navigating local permitting departments, and we serve as the point person between our clients, their project teams, and the jurisdiction. Be responsive, stay organized, communicate clearly, keep things moving. That’s the whole method.
Be responsive
You get an answer the same day. If we don’t have one yet, you’ll hear that too, and what we’re doing about it.
Stay organized
One place for every form, drawing set, comment, and approval, so nothing gets rediscovered three weeks later.
Communicate clearly
Plain updates on where the application stands, what’s needed next, and who owes what. No decoding required.
Keep things moving
We follow up before a review goes quiet, and we chase the answer instead of waiting on it.
Who we work with
General contractors
Developers
Architects and designers
Commercial property owners
Business owners and tenants
Homebuilders and residential contractors
Property managers
Homeowners