Plainfield requires a certificate of compliance, issued after inspection, before a dwelling unit may be occupied under a new tenancy and before a property is sold. The first unit costs $50 and each additional unit $25; an exemption application is $75; in a building of four or more units the inspection is $25 per unit.
This is the item that bites a schedule in a town with no rent control: a unit cannot be re-let until the certificate issues, so the vacancy assumption in a model has to include the inspection queue, and the same requirement lands again on the day the building is sold. Plainfield runs no municipal rental registry of its own and no cyclical inspection cycle — the statewide landlord registration is filed with the City Clerk, and a building of three or more units is on the state's own inspection tier.
Sources
- Plainfield City Code Ch. 6 Art. 5 — Certificates of compliance — City of Plainfield Code §6:5-2 (certificate required on a new tenancy), §6:5-8 (on sale), §6:5-13(f) (fees)The codified chapter. The fee schedule was not confirmed against the section text; confirm the fees with the city before budgeting them.