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Cincinnati guides
Written against what Cincinnati actually publishes, not adapted from another city by swapping the name. Every figure in them is a count we ran, stamped with the window it covers.
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.The five trades Cincinnati files separatelyHVAC, plumbing, fire protection, elevator and excavation each have their own permit type here, which is why a trade can watch its own work in this city and cannot in Cleveland.Barricaded, hazardous, registered: how Cincinnati records an empty buildingFour registers, four different meanings, and only one of them is the moment somebody was sent to board a building up.The Ohio River, by the footThe county maps the river at six flood stages, so the question here is not whether an address floods but at what stage it does — and that is a different question from the federal zone.Where Cincinnati's records actually liveEvery source this report reads, named, with the office that keeps it — so you can go and check any line of it yourself.What a Cincinnati report will not tell youThe gaps, named: no year built, no unit count, a crime archive whose coordinate columns are transposed, and a register that publishes no address at all.