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First month, last month, a security deposit. You deserve to know what the city already knows about the building before you sign, and before you spend an evening touring it.
Anyone can find a raw violation record. It reads Class C, §27-2017.4, self-closing device. We put every finding in plain English, say why it matters to you specifically, and hand you the exact question for the broker, ready to copy.
The panel reads whatever listing you already have open. No address to retype, no second tab.
None of this is secret. It's thirteen public datasets across six agencies, and an afternoon of tab-juggling, done in one pass beside the listing.
The record is public. Reading it shouldn't take a lawyer.
Here is one finding twice: exactly as the city files it, then exactly as the panel hands it to you.
STATUS: OPEN
APT 5B
§27-2017.4 ADM
Findable in about four clicks, if you know which of six agency portals to open and what a class letter means.
"City records show an open Class C violation for this apartment. Has it been corrected, and was a certificate of correction filed?"
A finding, then a question. Never a verdict about the building. That call isn't ours to make.
Three steps. A few seconds.
StreetEasy, Zillow, Trulia, Apartments.com or Realtor.com. The extension reads the address and apartment number off the page you already have open.
A panel opens beside the listing, matches the address to the city's tax lot, and reads thirteen datasets against it.
Findings are ordered by what changes your decision, and each one carries a question you can copy and put to the broker at the door.
Sorted so the first thing you read is the thing that matters.
Modern.
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Sun-drenched pre-war charmer in a well-maintained, responsive-management building. No fee. Steps from Tompkins Square.
- 3 of 11 open violations are tagged to unit 5B
- rat activity found at the most recent inspection
- building may be rent stabilized (24 units, built 1928)
The city's most serious category, meaning an immediate hazard. Open means no correction has been filed.
"City records show an open Class C violation for this apartment. Has it been corrected, and was a certificate of correction filed?"
Thirteen city datasets, one tax lot.
Every check is keyed to the building's BBL, the city's own identifier, not a fuzzy address match. When a dataset doesn't answer, we say so. Silence is reported as silence, never as a clean building.
The limits are part of the product.
A public record is a record of what was reported, not a description of how it is to live somewhere. Knowing where the record stops is the difference between using it well and being misled by it.
A violation stays open until someone files a correction. Plenty get fixed and never certified. Some get certified without being fixed.
Most records attach to the building. When one names a unit we say so; when it doesn't, we won't imply it does.
311 and HPD records exist because a tenant called. A quiet building may be well run, or may have tenants who don't complain.
We can tell you a building's age and size make stabilization likely. Only DHCR can confirm it for your apartment.
We show the registration and the record. What a person will do next isn't in any dataset.
This is built on NYC Open Data. The panel is honest about having nothing to say elsewhere.
We don't score buildings, grade them, or tell you one is good or bad. We show you what the city has on file, explain what it means, and give you the question to ask. The judgment stays yours.