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How NYC property compliance actually works

New York City keeps property records in systems that do not talk to each other, each with its own deadlines and its own idea of what counts as resolved. These guides explain what each record means, where to find it and what to do about it — including the parts where you do not need any software at all.

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Search NYC violations, HPD, DOB, OATH, permits, complaints, compliance and more.

28 guides across 10 categories, written against the agencies’ own published sources with a link to each one so you can check.

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NYC property compliance guidesWhere each kind of NYC property record lives, how to search it, and how to find a building in systems that do not agree on what to call it.4 guides HPD violations and complaintsHousing Maintenance Code violations, what Class A, B and C mean, and how tenant complaints turn into enforcement.3 guides Violation resolution guidesClearing a violation and proving it closed — the correction, the certification, and the reasons a fixed condition stays open on the record.4 guides DOB violations and permitsDepartment of Buildings violations, how they differ from ECB summonses, and what DOB NOW shows about work filed at a building.3 guides OATH and ECB hearingsWhat happens after a summons is issued, what a hearing decides, and what a default costs.3 guides 311 complaintsHow a complaint becomes an inspection, and how to work out which agency a notice came from.2 guides Property management complianceTracking compliance across many buildings, routing alerts to people who can act, and taking a building on or handing it over.3 guides Buying, selling and financingWhat open violations do to a sale or a refinance, and how to check a building before you are committed to it.2 guides FDNY and safetyVacate orders, what the published FDNY list does and does not tell you.1 guide Boilers, DEP and environmental complianceDEP boiler authorisations, asbestos filings and the state petroleum bulk storage register — records of compliance activity rather than enforcement.3 guides

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Stop checking multiple NYC systems manually. PropNotice monitors supported property-compliance sources and alerts you when important changes appear.

Most of what goes wrong here is an information problem rather than a willingness problem: a violation published in a system nobody opened, a correction window that closed while the paperwork sat with somebody else, a summons served to an address that stopped forwarding post two agents ago. The guides above describe the manual methods in full, because for a small portfolio they genuinely work. PropNotice exists for the point where they stop scaling.

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