The City of Poulsbo requires a performance and maintenance bond to guarantee development and public-improvement work — that you build it to City standards and maintain it through the warranty period. The City sets the amount; pricing starts from $100, and the application includes a quick soft credit check that never affects your score.
















Performance and maintenance bonds run a quick soft credit check — here is the whole process, no broker phone tag:
Your business details, the bond amount Poulsbo required, and the effective date. The only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit check.
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull only — never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your project. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the City insists.
When a developer or contractor builds public improvements — roads, utilities, drainage — for the City of Poulsbo, the City requires a performance bond that the work is completed to City standards and a maintenance bond that it holds up through the warranty period after acceptance.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Poulsbo (the obligee). If the improvements are not completed, or fail during the maintenance / warranty period, the City can recover its cost against the bond.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety pays the City, you repay the surety — which is why this bond runs one soft credit pull to inform approval. Pricing is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, regardless of the check outcome. We issue the amount Poulsbo set.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →Pricing from $100, soft pull only. Enter the amount the City required.