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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?
- Is my lead-safe certificate still in force?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- Is the rental registration current for this year?
- Which of my permits are still open?
- What do I have to disclose at sale?
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.
The Certificate of DisclosureCleveland's point-of-sale document. Before a transfer the city records what it held against the parcel at that moment — condemned or not, open violations, lead violations — and every one filed against this parcel is here.
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.
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.
Written for you
Cleveland's rental registration, and what a failure to register tells youEvery rental must be registered. Nine hundred were cited for not being, and four in five of those citations are still open.What Cleveland files every dayEleven lists, one filing type each, in the order the city filed them. What each one is, how often it moves, and how far behind the city runs.How to read a Cleveland reportWhat the city publishes, what each comparison claims, and the three places a Cleveland report is quieter than a San Francisco one.What a Cleveland condemnation actually meansTwo thousand structures condemned since 2024, two thirds of them still open. What the notice says, what it does not, and why the garage counts separately.
See it on a real address
Run any Cleveland address and the report reads that city's portal live, at the moment you ask. Plans start at $49 a month, billed monthly or annually, and re-reading a report you have run is always free.
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