Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records

Check any NYC building, before you sign. Free lookup of violations, heat complaints, rent-stabilization status, and who really owns it. Not run by the city.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

If you're renting or buying in NYC, read this before you sign anything.

Every building in this city has a paper trail. Heat complaints. Housing violations. Who actually owns it, not the LLC on your lease, the human behind it. Every other building that owner runs. Whether your apartment is quietly rent-stabilized and you've been overpaying for years.

It's all public. All free. The catch? It's buried across dozens of clunky city websites that don't talk to each other, and no landlord is going to hand it to you.

So we put it in one place!

https://t.co/qNxAKhY2WE, type any NYC address, get the whole story in about ten seconds:

✱ Open HPD, DOB and ECB violations, and how long they've sat unfixed.

✱ Heat and hot water complaint history, your best predictor of a miserable winter.

✱ Who really owns it and their entire portfolio, one bad building is a bad year, ten is a business model
Rent stabilization status.

✱ Sale history, plus whether the landlord is even legally registered to collect rent.

Free. No signup. Not run by the city, just their own public records pulled into one clean page.

Fresh paint hides everything. The record doesn't.

Check the building, not the vibe. → https://t.co/KhKrEdvTUC

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@petersantilli subscription to suffering is exactly it. 3500 for a glass shower in the kitchen and a front door that opens onto the bed. the part nobody warns you about is the building itself, the boiler, the leaks, the landlord who vanishes the second you sign

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@uttam_singhk apartment hunting here makes the job market look chill. paying a broker fee for a place you already hate, credit checks, bidding wars on a fifth floor walkup facing a brick wall. at least jobs email you back. brutal out here

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@pictureplane honestly the first thing i'd check is whether it's actually rent stabilized. if it is, a 2k jump isn't legal no matter what the lease says, and a ton of bushwick is stabilized without tenants even knowing. you can look your building up on https://t.co/HFJp5THN8x

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@BenBlippenstein $4,300 for a shoebox is wild. The thing I'd actually want to know is whether it's rent stabilized, because if it is, that rent might not even be legal. Worth digging into before you lock in.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@emilyagain Classic, blasting when it's warm and dead the second it gets cold. Heat season starts Oct 1, so once it's under 55 out they owe you 68 by day. Call 311 every time it's off, that builds the record. Your building's heat history is on https://t.co/HFJp5THfiZ, bet you're not alone.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

1.8 million "immediately hazardous" housing violations issued in NYC over the last ten years. Roughly 400,000 are still open right now. No heat, no hot water, rats, lead.

The same landlords top the Worst Landlords list every year and keep collecting rent.

@NYCMayor @NYCHousing @NYCPA, when does the watchlist become consequences?

Tenants, your landlord's record is public. Look it up free on https://t.co/KhKrEdvTUC before you sign. #WorstLandlordsNYC

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@inglouriouscap A 17% renewal hike is brutal, and depending on the building it might not even be legal. If your unit's actually rent-stabilized, the increase is capped no matter what they list it at, and most tenants never check. https://t.co/HFJp5THN8x is free and shows the status.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@Cobylefko That's the unfortunate reality of the NYC market right now.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@EMPIREREPORTNY A lot of renters are in stabilized units and don't even know it, some landlords quietly treat them as market rate. If your rent jumped for no clear reason, it's worth checking your actual status. Could be a real overcharge case sitting there unclaimed.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@pity_pnk the ai photos are the worst, you show up and it's a totally different place. one thing that still tells the truth is the building's actual record, violations, heat complaints, who owns it, all free public info. the photos lie, the paper trail doesn't.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@UesVox @NYCMayor @NYCMOPT @NYCHousing @NYC_Buildings @ManhattanDA 😠😡😤🤬

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

The portfolio angle is the part that never gets covered. It's almost never one bad building, it's one bad owner with a dozen. https://t.co/KhKrEdvTUC is free, put in the address and it shows the open violations plus every other building the same owner holds. Usually tells the whole story.

Ran a quick check on Slavik Gofman and well 😱, see for your self 🔻

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@honeymangoesss Same apartment, new price, the NYC special. One tip that helps, before you sign, pull the building's public record, open violations, heat complaint history, who actually owns it. A place can show great and still have 40 open violations you'd never see on the tour. Good luck!

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

Fall in NYC hits different. The light goes low and gold, the radiators start clanking, and every renter finds out real fast whether their landlord actually turns the heat on.

Heads up: heat season starts Oct 1. From then through May, your landlord is legally required to keep it warm — 68 during the day, 62 overnight. That's the law, not a favor.

So before you sign a winter lease, it's worth knowing if a building has a history of the boiler "mysteriously" breaking every January. That stuff is public record. Pull the heat complaint history first, then decide.

Stay warm out there 🍂

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

@slayjiii honestly yeah. one thing that helps, you can check them before they check you. pull the building's violation history, heat complaints and who really owns it, all free public record, before you apply. doesn't fix the imbalance but you go in knowing what you're signing into

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

NYC heat season starts Oct 1. Your landlord owes you 68F during the day when it's under 55 out, 62F overnight no exceptions, and 120F hot water year-round. Screenshot it. If your building was cold last winter, it'll probably be cold again.

[Check a Building | NYC Building & Landlord Records @CheckABuilding]

Mold in a bathroom is a housing code violation, not "cosmetic," and you already did the smart part by pulling his record. That violation history and the pattern across his LLCs is exactly what a housing court looks at.

Two things worth knowing: threatening to push you out or hike your rent right after you asked for repairs can be illegal retaliation, and those 19 open violations are leverage, not just venting material.

Document the mold with dated photos, file a complaint so it's on the city's record too, and take that list to a tenant lawyer, most do free consults. You're not powerless here, you're holding the receipts.