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Every public record on one address, in 8 cities.
Type an address and this reads what the city, the county and the federal registers already hold about it — permits, violations, hazards, the assessment, what changed hands nearby, the crime on its block — and returns it as one report you can forward. Compiled live from the publishers' own data, each count compared with an average area the same size in that same city. Nothing is scored, and nothing is about a person.
Where it works
8 cities across 4 states, with Seattle on October 15th, Austin on October 15th, Chicago on November 1st, Detroit on November 1st, Nashville on November 1st, Miami on January 1st, Minneapolis on January 1st. An address anywhere else is declined with the reason rather than answered with partial data. A city is not a template with a name swapped in. What a report holds depends on what that city publishes, so the counts below differ, and so does the law each report speaks: Proposition 13 is California's and is false in Ohio.
The founding city, and the deepest record here: the Assessor's roll, permits, violations, rent control, the soft-story obligation, the Rent Board's activity nearby — and what is licensed to make noise on the block and dug up in the street outside.
45 sections
Cleveland the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga CountyWhat the city requires of a building — rental registration, lead-safe certification, condemnation and the point-of-sale disclosure — beside the county's certified value, and whether the parcel sits in a district where improvements are exempt from taxation.
33 sections
New York City the City of New York17 sections
Washington, D.C. the District of Columbia17 sections
Cincinnati the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County25 sections
Los Angeles the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County AssessorEvery code-enforcement case LADBS holds open on the parcel, the eviction notices the Housing Department recorded against it, five roll years of the county's assessed value, and what the blocks around it have recorded.
33 sections
Oakland the City of Oakland and the Alameda County AssessorSeven roll years, the price the transfer tax was computed on, and seven hazard layers read at the address. The city publishes no permits at all, and the report says so.
28 sections
San Diego the City of San Diego and SANDAGA city that publishes files and answers no query, so this holds a copy and stamps every count with the day it was taken. The parcel's approvals, the short-term rentals licensed around it, and the traffic on the nearest counted street.
25 sections
What it will not do
Stated here, and again inside every report, beside the figures they qualify.
- It does not score anythingNo safety rating, no grade for a block, no school ranking. Characterizing a neighborhood is how a Fair Housing steering claim starts.
- It describes a place, never a personNo owner names, no residents, no demographics. A register that carries a name is read for the place or not read.
- It is not a consumer reportIt may not be used to screen tenants or to make a decision about an individual. Not an FCRA product.
- It refuses sex-offender dataCalifornia Penal Code 290.46(j)(2) forbids using that register for housing, and this will not do it in any city.
- It says what it could not readA register that did not answer is marked unread, which is a different thing from a register that answered with nothing.
- It is not a valuationNot an appraisal, and not a statutory Natural Hazard Disclosure.
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