Listingprobe

Skeptical property due diligence

The listing says two units. The assessor says one.

Paste a listing URL or an address. We read the public record and the listing, underwrite at the rents the street actually pays, and hand back a verdict, the red flags behind it, an offer range — and what we could not verify.

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One address in

Verdict · sample report

48 Larchmont Terrace, Newark
Negotiatelow confidence
Asking
$699,500
Recommended offer
$490,000–$520,000

What decided it

  • DSCR 0.81 at realistic rents — the loan does not fund
  • Listing says 2 units; the assessor records 1
  • Basement described as a potential extra dwelling

Composite sample: real numbers, anonymised.

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The actual output

This is the report, not a picture of one.

Rendered by the product’s own components, from the same engines, on a real property asking $699,500. Nothing here can say something the report would not.

A real property's numbers, anonymised — the address, parcel and source records are fictitious, and every date is shifted by a constant offset that leaves the intervals between them unchanged. Published as 48 Larchmont Terrace, Newark NJ 07106.

One of the 26 findings, expanded exactly as the report expands it — explanation, what would resolve it, the evidence the rule fired on, and the records behind it.

Listing · claimed

2units

Marketed as a 2-unit property.

Assessor · recorded

1unit

Building description: “2SF3UG”.

Deal-breakers

1Walk, or make the whole offer conditional on resolving it.

The listing markets this as a 2-unit property. The assessor records 1 — the building description reads "2SF3UG", which decodes as two-story, single family, 3-car unattached garage. If the additional unit is not legal, the income case collapses: you would be underwriting one unit's rent against the whole purchase price, and a lender will not fund a unit that does not legally exist. Assessor descriptions do go stale, so this is strongly suggestive rather than conclusive — but the burden of proof sits with the seller, and the answer changes the value by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What to verify

  • The certificate of occupancy establishing the legal unit count — the document, not the agent's word.
  • The zoning and permit history from the municipal construction-code office.
  • A public-records request for all permits, inspections and certificates on the parcel.
  • The assessor's classification of neighbouring parcels on the same block, to check how the code is used locally.

Evidence

classification.assessorUnits
1
classification.listingClaimedUnits
2
assessor.useCode
2SF3UG
classification.legalUnitsBestEstimate
1
SourcesEssex County assessor recordNJ Treasury county equalization tableEssex County revaluation statusus-rental-screen reference (vendored)Listing page — national aggregatorListing page — listing brokerage+2 more

Transaction forensics

Relisted 11 days after sale, up 39.9%

  1. $500,000

    Sold, 30 Jun 2026

  2. $699,500

    Relisted, 11 Jul 2026

It sold for $500,000 on 2026-06-30 and was relisted at $699,500 on 2026-07-11. That is a $199,500 markup — up 39.9% — in 11 days. Little or no work is possible in that time, so the spread is the seller's margin and you would be paying all of it.

Whose DSCR?

“DSCR” names two tests. At $699,500 on $5,200/mo realistic rents, this building fails one and clears the other.

NOI ÷ debt service
0.81 covers debt service
Below the 1.15 floor and the 1.00 most lenders require. A deal-breaker; 26 findings.
gross rent ÷ PITIA
1.21 covers PITIA
Clears the same 1.15 floor — but 25 findings remain, 1 still a deal-breaker, and the verdict is still Negotiate.

The report follows the test your lender actually underwrites to, rather than printing a ratio under a heading that does not say which.

The other 25 findings, the rent reality check, the scenario matrix, Newark’s rent control, the tax intelligence and all 10 items this report could not verify are in the full sample report 19 sources, no sign-up.

How it works

Four steps, and the two that take time say so.

No data feed, no licensed MLS access. It reads the same public records a careful buyer would, in the same order, and then does the arithmetic properly.

  1. Step 1Listing
  2. Step 2Records
  3. Step 3Engines
  4. Step 4Verdict
  1. Paste a listing URL or an address

    A listing URL is better: it gives the pipeline the seller’s own claims to check against the record — square footage, unit count, the rent projection, the remodel year.

  2. The pipeline reads the public record and the listing

    The listing page is fetched and rent comparables gathered, wherever the property is. Where the market’s records are wired, the address resolves to a parcel and the assessor, deeds and permit feeds are read from their own sources.

    Two to six minutes, not seconds. Records are fetched one at a time and politely, and the job reports its progress. Anything claiming to be instant is not reading a county record.

  3. Deterministic engines underwrite it

    Rent basis, operating expenses, the scenario matrix, coverage ratios, price ceilings and every red-flag rule are ordinary tested code. The language model’s only job is turning pages into typed facts.

    The model never does the arithmetic. Same facts, same bytes, every time — which is what makes a checked-in sample report possible.

  4. You get a verdict, the flags, an offer range and a checklist

    Buy, Negotiate to a range, Walk, or Insufficient data — with the rule that produced it, the findings that decided it, and a recommended offer with conditions attached.

    And a list of what could not be verified — 10 items on the sample, each with why it matters and how to check it. They become a checklist you work through.

What makes it different

A calculator multiplies your inputs. A listing site republishes the seller’s.

Neither one goes and checks. Deals go wrong on a unit that does not legally exist, a renovation nobody permitted, a rent projection a quarter above what the street pays, and a tax bill that moves the day the deed records.

  • Assessor versus listing

    Unit count, square footage, use code, year built and improvement value, cross-checked against what the listing markets. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the finding.

    Listing says 2 units; the assessor records 1. The income case depends on which is right.

  • Transaction forensics

    The recorded sale history read for signatures, not printed as a table: flip velocity, prices outside the trades around them, long escrows closing far under ask, relistings that reset days-on-market.

    Bought at $500,000, relisted 11 days later up 39.9%. Little work is possible in eleven days.

  • Municipal regulation, not state summaries

    Rent control and whether it binds at this unit count, vacancy decontrol, just cause, registration and inspection, lead paint — municipality first, then county, then state, each with its citation and the date last checked.

    Whether rent control binds here is contested. Rental registration and inspection regime applies.

  • Tax intelligence

    The assessment against its neighbours, the equalization ratio, revaluation risk, and — where the jurisdiction reassesses on transfer — the bill at the price actually paid, on every row of the scenario matrix.

    Assessed at $277,100 against a $699,500 ask, and at 1.88× the neighbouring parcels.

  • What it could not verify

    Every report ends with what could not be established from a screen, ranked by how much it matters, each with how to check it and who to call. An estimate is labelled an estimate wherever it appears.

    The legal unit count, and the certificate of occupancy that would establish it.

  • The list of 10 unresolved items is the part most products leave out.

    And the part a buyer actually acts on. A report with nothing on that list has not understood the question.

Coverage

Works nationwide. Deepest where we’ve wired the public records.

Every US residential address gets the listing read and cross-checked, rent comparables, deterministic underwriting, the red-flag rules, a verdict and an offer range. What varies is how deep the public record goes — parcel, assessor, deeds, permits, tax, municipal regulation — and that is wired one market at a time.

Read from the market adapters and the roadmap file when this page is built: it cannot promise a source that is not wired, and it labels a plan as a plan.

  • Alaska: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Maine: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Wisconsin: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Vermont: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • New Hampshire: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Washington: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Idaho: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Montana: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • North Dakota: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Minnesota: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Illinois: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Michigan: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • New York: deep public records now. Also on the roadmap: New York State beyond the assessment roll.
  • Massachusetts: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Oregon: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Nevada: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Wyoming: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • South Dakota: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Iowa: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Indiana: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Ohio: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Pennsylvania: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • New Jersey: deep public records now. Also on the roadmap: New Jersey beyond Essex County.
  • Connecticut: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Rhode Island: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • California: deep public records now in 3 of 58 counties. Also on the roadmap: California beyond the first counties.
  • Utah: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Colorado: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Nebraska: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Missouri: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Kentucky: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • West Virginia: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Virginia: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Maryland: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Delaware: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Arizona: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • New Mexico: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Kansas: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Arkansas: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Tennessee: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • North Carolina: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • South Carolina: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • District of Columbia: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Oklahoma: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Louisiana: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Mississippi: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Alabama: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Georgia: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Hawaii: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Texas: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
  • Florida: the research pipeline: listing, rent comparables, underwriting, red flags, verdict and offer range. No public-records adapter yet.
Deep now
2 states
Deep in part
1 state
Everywhere else
47 states and DC

Curated landlord regulation is on file for Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California and applies in every tier wherever the jurisdiction matches — a rent cap is a rule about a place, not about a data feed.

Next 30 days — the roadmap

Being wired now. None of it is in a report yet; an entry moves to a filled tile only when the registry says so.

  1. New York State beyond the assessment roll

    Deeper · September 2026

    Parcel identity and the assessor record already reach every city and town outside the five boroughs; recorded sales, construction filings, the equalization and levy figures behind a forward tax charge, and municipal ordinances beyond the statewide rules are being wired next.

  2. New Jersey beyond Essex County

    Deeper · September 2026

    The parcel and permit sources are already statewide, and so are the equalization ratios and tax rates; the municipal ordinances that make a report deep are still curated per jurisdiction, reach Newark today, and are being extended across Essex County and the other twenty.

  3. California beyond the first counties

    Deeper · September 2026

    Each of California's 58 county assessors publishes on its own terms, so the parcel and assessment sources are wired county by county and reach the largest few today; recorded documents and permit feeds, reassessment on transfer for the tax projection, and the state rent cap and just-cause rules already curated in the knowledge base are next.

New markets every month.

If your county is a plain tile, tell us — the order is decided by who asks.

  1. Deep now

    New York and New Jersey

    Parcel identity and the assessor record resolve across the whole state, or across the counties holding at least four in five of its homes; recorded deeds, permits, tax intelligence and municipal regulation are read from the market’s own public sources as far as they reach, and the table below counts how far — equalization ratios and municipal ordinances are curated municipality by municipality.

  2. Deep in part

    California

    An adapter that answers part of a state — the counties whose records are open, not the rest. Inside its boundary the report is as deep as the tier before; outside it, the state gets the research pipeline.

  3. Next 30 days · roadmap

    New York State beyond the assessment roll, New Jersey beyond Essex County and California beyond the first counties

    Being wired now, targeting September 2026. A roadmap entry is a plan, not coverage: nothing on it reaches a report until its adapter ships and this page reads it from the registry.

  4. Everywhere else

    The other 47 states and DC

    The full research pipeline and every red-flag rule that needs no public record. No assessor, deed or permit depth yet — and the report names each check it could not run rather than filling the gap with an average.

What “deep” means, row by row — 4 markets; every tick, count and dash an adapter’s own manifest

One column per market with an adapter — 4 today. Every tick, every count and every dash is the adapter’s own manifest: a tick is read across the whole market, a count is how many of the state’s counties or municipalities the source reaches, a dash is not yet.

Which public-records sources each market can read today
What gets checkedNew JerseyNew York CityCaliforniaNew York State
Parcel identityReadRead5 of 58 countiesRead
Resolving the address to the block and lot the public record files it under, so every later lookup is about this building and not a neighbour.California: Parcel identity resolves in the counties counted here. The share is of California's housing units, per the Department of Finance's Report E-5, 1 January 2026.
Assessor recordReadRead3 of 58 countiesRead
The assessed value, the building description and the use code — the record that disagreed with the listing about the unit count.California: Fewer counties than a parcel resolves in: two of those publish an address and a parcel number and no valuation. The share is of California's housing units, per the Department of Finance's Report E-5, 1 January 2026.
Sale historyReadRead3 of 58 counties1 of 994 municipalities
Recorded transactions, which is what makes flip velocity, price outliers and long-escrow discounts detectable at all.California: Three county rolls expose one dated field, never a chain or price; a closed roll may omit later transfers. The share is of California's housing units, per the Department of Finance's Report E-5, 1 January 2026.New York State: The City of Rochester publishes the current transfer attached to each parcel. The statewide ORPTS Sales Web has ten years but requires an interactive security challenge, so it is not automated; the local layer is a snapshot, not a complete history.
Permits and certificatesReadReadNot yetNot yet
The construction-permit feed, including whether a certificate of occupancy has ever been issued.
Tax intelligence564 of 564 municipalitiesRead1 of 58 countiesNot yet
Equalization ratios, effective rates and whether the assessment follows a sale — what the bill becomes at the price you pay.New Jersey: Equalization ratio and effective rate on file for the municipalities counted here, generated from the Division of Taxation's published tables and checked against the certified PDFs; elsewhere the report carries no local ratio.California: Los Angeles County exposes each parcel's Tax Rate Area and publishes the annual ad-valorem schedule. The share is of California's housing units, per the Department of Finance's Report E-5, 1 January 2026.
Municipal regulation20 of 564 municipalitiesReadNot yet0 of 994 municipalities
Rent control and whether it binds at this unit count, just cause, rental registration and inspection, lead paint.New Jersey: Curated municipal regulation files exist for the municipalities counted here; this is not a claim that every local ordinance topic has been exhaustively surveyed, and statewide rules apply everywhere in New Jersey.New York State: The statewide statutes apply everywhere and are what a report outside the city quotes; no local ordinance has been transcribed for an assessing unit yet.
Rent comparables from a public recordNot yetNot yetNot yetNot yet
Signed leases from a public source. No market has this: comparables everywhere come from national listing portals, which publish asking rents.

New Jersey

New Jersey (NJParcels assessor + DCA permit database)

  • Rent comparables are gathered from national listing portals, not from a New Jersey public record, and are estimates rather than leases.
  • Equalization ratios and effective tax rates are generated from the Division of Taxation's published tables and checked against the certified PDFs, and carry a citation rather than a live retrieval.
  • Equalization ratios and effective tax rates are on file for all 564 New Jersey municipalities, and curated municipal ordinances for 20 municipalities in Atlantic, Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic and Union Counties; elsewhere in New Jersey a report carries the statewide rules and no researched local ordinance.

New York City

New York City (GeoSearch + PLUTO + DOF assessment roll + ACRIS + DOB permits)

  • New York City does not reassess a property when it is sold, so the tax figures in this report are what the seller pays now rather than a projection off the purchase price. What can move the charge is the assessment phase-in cap, not the sale.
  • Rent comparables are gathered from national listing portals, not from a New York public record, and are asking rents rather than leases.
  • New York required no occupancy certificate for buildings erected before 1938, and the city's published file of them only opens in 2012, so for an older building this report draws no conclusion from the absence of one either way. Order it from the Department of Buildings for the parcel if how many homes the building legally contains matters to the deal.
  • The annual property tax figure is arithmetic over two Department of Finance publications — its billable assessed value and its published class rate — because New York issues no per-parcel statement as open data, and the class rate available may be a fiscal year or two older than the assessment roll. Confirm the figure against the seller's own statement before underwriting on it.

California

California (county assessor rolls — Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Alameda and Sacramento)

  • California assesses under Proposition 13, so the value on a county's assessment roll is what the present owner paid indexed at no more than 2% a year, not an estimate of what the property is worth today. It resets to the price paid when the property changes hands, so what a buyer would owe is set by their own purchase price rather than by anything the roll holds against the present owner.
  • California publishes no statewide property record: each of its 58 county assessors publishes on its own terms. This report reads the county sources named in its own sources list; where a county publishes only a search page for people, the parcel is not identified here at all and the county assessor's site is where to look next.
  • Rent comparables are gathered from national listing portals, not from a California public record, and are asking rents rather than leases.
  • In the California counties this report can read, it reads two things: which parcel the address is and, in the counties whose assessor publishes values, what the assessment roll holds against it — two of the five publish a parcel number and no valuation at all, so a missing assessment here can mean a county that publishes none rather than a search that came back empty. Alameda, Los Angeles and San Francisco publish one transfer or recording-date field on a county roll snapshot, without a price or earlier chain; a roll snapshot may omit transfers recorded after it closed. San Diego and Sacramento publish no transfer field. The municipal landlord rules were not researched for this address — no rent control, just-cause or rental-registration ordinance has been read here, and their absence below is not evidence that none binds. California caps rent increases and requires just cause statewide under AB 1482, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and San Jose each layer a stricter local ordinance on top of it; the city's housing department and the county recorder's office are where to settle both before making an offer.

New York State

New York State (ORPTS statewide assessment roll)

  • New York's statewide assessment roll publishes the property class, the assessed value and the state's own full market value, but no living area, no year built and no count of dwellings — so nothing in the public record here contradicts or confirms what the listing says the building contains.
  • The assessed value on the roll is a fraction of market value set by each municipality, and this report divides the two figures the roll publishes to state that fraction rather than quoting the rate the state publishes separately.
  • Recorded transfers are read only for Rochester, where the official parcel layer publishes one current snapshot rather than a complete history; the statewide ten-year portal requires an interactive security challenge and is left for a person to consult. Construction filings and the municipal equalization and levy tables are not read anywhere in this adapter, so unsupported sections are absent rather than empty.
  • The landlord rules quoted for a New York property outside the city are the statutes that apply across the state. A municipal stabilisation, registration or inspection regime may apply on top of them and has not been looked for.
  • Rent comparables for a New York property outside the city come from national listing portals rather than from any public record, and are asking rents rather than signed leases.

Outside the deep markets: a thinner report, labelled as such.

No adapter means no parcel lookup, assessor record, sale history or permit feed — so the assessor-versus-listing check, the transaction forensics and the certificate-of-occupancy question cannot run. What remains is the research pipeline over what the listing and the open web publish, in the same typed facts and the same engines, with the regulation entries applied where the knowledge base has the jurisdiction. Every check that could not run is named in the report’s “what could not be verified” list — “no permits found” and “this market has no permit source” are different sentences, and one of them is a red flag.

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Questions

The six worth asking before you pay.

Is this investment advice?

No, and the report says so on every copy: “Market research and financial modelling, not investment advice. Every figure here needs verifying against primary documents before you commit — particularly the certificate of occupancy, the rent control status and the current tax bill.

What it is: market research and financial modelling. Facts from public records and the listing, each with its source and retrieval date or labelled unverified; deterministic arithmetic over them; and a published rule set whose every verdict records the rule that produced it. It is not registered to give advice, does not know your tax position, and never tells you what to do with your money — it tells you what the record says and where the record and the listing disagree.

Which markets does it cover?

Any US residential address gets a report: the listing read and cross-checked, rent comparables, deterministic underwriting, every red-flag rule that needs no public record, a verdict and an offer range.

What varies is how deep the public record goes. In New Jersey and New York City the report also resolves the parcel and reads the assessor record, the recorded deeds, the permit and occupancy-certificate files and — where curated, which the coverage table under the coverage map counts municipality by municipality — the tax mechanics and municipal ordinances.

Next on the roadmap — New York State beyond the assessment roll, New Jersey beyond Essex County, California beyond the first counties — targeting September 2026; a roadmap entry is a plan, and nothing on it appears in a report until its adapter ships. Everywhere else the report is thinner and says so. New markets monthly, in the order people ask — request yours.

Where does the data come from?

Public records and the listing itself, never a licensed feed. In every market: the listing page as the seller published it, the national portals’ asking rents for the comparables — labelled estimates, because they are asking rents rather than signed leases — and the curated regulation knowledge base wherever the jurisdiction matches. In the deep markets, the public record on top: for New Jersey the NJParcels assessor record, the statewide construction-permit database and the Treasury equalization tables; for New York City the City Planning address directory and PLUTO, the Finance assessment roll, ACRIS deeds, the Buildings permit and occupancy-certificate files, and HPD’s multiple dwelling register.

Every fact carries the URL it came from and the date it was fetched, or it is on the unverified list — the sample cites 19 sources. Two operating lines are estimates by construction, because nobody publishes an insurance premium or a water bill per address; both are marked “estimated” and both step aside when you enter a real quote.

What happens when a listing portal blocks you?

It is recorded and the report tells you. Portals refuse automated requests routinely, so the listing is resolved in layers — the URL you pasted, other portals carrying the same property, then listing text you paste in yourself — and the report records which layer answered. It never implies a page was read when none was.

No headless browser, no rotated user agents, no proxy pool. A refusal is answered with another portal, your own copy of the listing, or an honest gap. The public-records half — assessor, deeds, permits, tax, regulation — is unaffected, and in the deep markets that is where the deal-breakers usually are.

How current is the regulation data?

Every rule carries the date it was last checked against its primary source, printed beside it in the report and on the public regulation pages. Anything not re-verified within 180 days is marked stale on sight, computed when you read the page rather than by a job that might not run.

Entries are human-reviewed and live as checked-in records as well as in the database. Ordinances still change faster than any database: the citation is there so you can open the ordinance yourself, and the report asks you to.

Can I cancel?

Any time, from the billing page. Cancelling means the subscription does not renew — you keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for, then the account is Free again. Nothing is deleted: your properties, reports and checklists stay readable, and you go back to one lifetime preview. the verdict's call, and the deal-breakers in full.

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The difference between $699,500 and $490,000 is one afternoon of reading records.

That is one property. Run yours before you write the offer, not after the inspection.

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