The words on a Cleveland report
- Condemnation. The city's written finding that a structure is unfit. Filed as a violation notice against the parcel, per structure — the garage and the house are separate notices — and kept open until resolved.
- Failure to register. The violation Cleveland files when a rental is found operating without the annual registration every rental must hold.
- Lead-safe certificate. Required on rental housing built before 1978, with an inspection, a unit count and an expiry. Lapsed is not the same as never held, and neither is the same as a building the programme does not reach.
- Certificate of Disclosure. Cleveland'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.
- Parcel pin. The county's parcel number, which every city register keys on.
- Certified value. Cuyahoga County's figure for a tax year, set on its own reappraisal cycle rather than by what the building sold for. Not a valuation.
- Abatement. The part of a certified value the city has agreed not to tax, for a period. Cleveland abates widely; the taxable figure alone makes a building look a third of its certified worth.
- Board-up. A permit to board a building shut. Not equipment work, but the earliest published sign a structure is going out of use.
- Ward. The council district. Every row on a list carries one.
- Issued, not filed. A filed permit is a plan; an issued one is a job that may start tomorrow. The trade lists key on the issue date for that reason.
Counts run 3 September 2026 over filings since 1 January 2024.