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Everything the city files about your building, and beside it.
You hear about a notice when it matters least — after the deadline, in escrow, or from a tenant's lawyer. The report reads your parcel's full record on demand, and the weekly building watch tells you what was filed on or near it while you were doing something else.
The questions it answers
- What is outstanding against my building?
- Which code-enforcement cases does the city hold open against me?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- What does the county value my building at?
- Which of my permits are still open?
- Does my parcel carry an abatement or an increment figure?
The sections that earn their keep
Watched buildingsA Monday email when a permit, complaint, violation or nearby eviction notice is filed. A quiet week sends nothing.
Complaints and violationsWhat stands against the parcel, what was abated, and what is still live.
Point of saleThe obligations that ride with the building into a sale, so none of them is a surprise on the settlement statement.
Written for you
How to read a Cincinnati reportWho keeps which record here, what the county's market value is and is not, and the one number this city publishes that most cities will not.The county's value, and the price it actually sold forHamilton County reappraises on a cycle rather than on sale, and Ohio discloses what a building sold for. Both facts change how you read the top of the report.What Cincinnati files, and under what nameThirteen filing types worth watching, including five trades this city records separately and one category that means a building has just been boarded up.Cincinnati's record, word by wordAuditor, market value, board of revision, barricading, STARS — what each means here, and which body writes it down.
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