Scan the Block · for renting
The building's record, before you sign for a year of it.
A listing shows you the flat on its best day. The city's records show the building on every other day: what tenants reported, what inspectors cited, whether your rent is protected, and how the landlord has used the Rent Board. One report, before the lease.
The questions it answers
- Is my unit covered by rent control?
- What does an eviction notice here mean?
- Has the landlord petitioned to raise rents?
- What has been reported wrong with this building?
- Who do I call about a repair?
- Is this building on the retrofit list?
The sections that earn their keep
Rent controlWhether the age test applies to this building, and which of the two protections you would actually hold.
Complaints and violationsWhat has been reported wrong here and whether it was fixed — allegations and findings, counted separately.
Eviction notices nearbyHow often the surrounding blocks see notices, and for which stated reasons.
Tenancy changesBuyouts and petitions on the Rent Board's record — the moves that never show in the eviction data.
The last 90 daysWhat this block has been like lately, against its own usual.
Licensed for entertainment nearbyWhich places around the address hold a live permit to put on amplified sound, and under which class. You cannot hear a nine o'clock bar at a Tuesday afternoon viewing, and the listing will not mention it.
Work permitted in the street outsideStreet-use permits in force nearby, grouped by job, with the window each runs for — whether the street is being dug up for the six months after you move in.
Before you sign, freeThe building's card — rent control, complaints, Rent Board activity — free at /check, shareable with a roommate before anyone pays for anything.
Written for you
Renting in San FranciscoWhether a building is rent controlled, what its record says about how it is kept, and the difference between the two protections people merge.Evictions, and what a notice actually meansThe Ellis Act, an owner move-in, a nuisance notice — the city records the ground for every filing, and they do not mean the same thing at all.Who to actually call in San FranciscoThis report is a record. These are the people who decide — the Rent Board, DBI, the Assessor, and the organizations that help for free.
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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