Scan the Block · for renting

The building's record, before you sign for a year of it.

A listing shows you the flat on its best day. The city's records show the building on every other day: the code-enforcement cases it holds open, whether anything nearby has been ordered boarded up, and what has been permitted on it. Ohio has no rent control, so this report does not pretend to test for it. One report, before the lease.

The questions it answers

Does the city hold any code-enforcement case open on this building?
Has anything nearby been ordered boarded up?
What has been permitted on this building?
What has been reported wrong with this building?
Who do I call about a repair?
What has been filed on the blocks around it?

The sections that earn their keep

Complaints and violationsWhat has been reported wrong here and whether it was fixed — allegations and findings, counted separately.

Buildings boarded up nearbyOrders the city issued to barricade a building, counted around the address. The city's own record that somebody was sent to close one.

The last 90 daysWhat this block has been like lately, against its own usual.

Licensed for entertainment nearbyWhich places around the address hold a live permit to put on amplified sound, and under which class. You cannot hear a nine o'clock bar at a Tuesday afternoon viewing, and the listing will not mention it.

Work permitted in the street outsideStreet-use permits in force nearby, grouped by job, with the window each runs for — whether the street is being dug up for the six months after you move in.

Before you sign, freeThe building's card — what the county values it at, what it last sold for, the permits on it and whether anything nearby has been boarded up — free at /check, shareable with a roommate before anyone pays for anything.

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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