Scan the Block · for owner or landlord
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?
- Do I have a soft-story obligation?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- Can I pass improvement costs through to rent?
- 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.
Point of saleThe obligations that ride with the building into a sale, so none of them is a surprise on the settlement statement.
Energy benchmarkingWhether the building is large enough to carry the annual filing, and its recorded standing.
What the block rents forLandlord-reported rents by tenancy start, which is the income question answered with filings rather than listings.
Written for you
Owning, letting and sellingYour own building's public record, read the way a buyer's agent will read it — and the handful of things worth settling before it is read for you.Permits, and the work nobody filedHow to read a parcel's permit history, what an open permit costs the next owner, and why the useful signal is often what the record does not contain.What to check before you bidThe public record on a building before you send a proposal: what is already open, what an inspector already flagged, and what a soft-story obligation is worth knowing before you price the job.Insuring a San Francisco building, from the public recordWhat the city files about condition and hazard — fire citations, open violations, the retrofit list, the flood and fault zones — and the four things an underwriter needs that are not in there at all.
See it on a real address
The front page runs on live output for 820 Post St — every number on it is the report's own. 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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