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Scan the Block · for investor

Underwrite the block, not the brochure.

The pro forma says what the seller hopes; the city's records say what has happened. The county's certified value with whatever part of it is abated, the violation and condemnation load on the surrounding blocks, what is being permitted next door, and the vacancy Cleveland's own 311 reports before a listing does — the facts a thesis is made of, none of them scored for you.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

The building on the county rollCuyahoga County's certified value, its land use, floor area, lot size and the year the county records it as built. Where the value is abated the gross, the abated part and the taxable remainder are all shown — Cleveland abates widely, and the taxable figure alone makes a building look a third of its certified worth.
What Cleveland requires hereWhether the rental registration is current and for how many units, whether a lead-safe certificate is in force and when it expires, whether the city holds the structure condemned, and every point-of-sale Certificate of Disclosure filed against the parcel. No record is reported as no record, never as compliance.
Permits on the blocks around itWhat is being built and repaired nearby, by year, against the citywide rate.
What this parcel last sold forThe county's recorded transfer date, and the price where one was recorded. A transfer with no price is shown as a date rather than a sale for nothing.
Violations on the surrounding blocksWhat the city has filed nearby by year and category, against what an average Cleveland area of the same size records — and how much of it is still open.

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