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NYC DOB violations removal — closing is in 30 days. Your property has 11 open violations. We handle it.

Open violations routinely kill refi, acquisition, and sale timelines — title insurers carve them out, lenders hold escrow, and buyers' attorneys freeze the closing sheet. We coordinate the full clearance, inside the transaction window.

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47 closings

Cleared in 2024

100%

Lender-accepted

9 days

Avg clearance

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Portfolio · 8 buildings

34–55 W 14th St, Manhattan

3 critical 7 open

DOB

3

HPD

2

ECB

1

OATH

—

FDNY

1

311

—

DEP

—

DOH

—

PRM

1

DOT

—

30d · violations detected

+12.4%

Upcoming · compliance

LL11 FISP cycle 9 Feb 21

LL97 emissions filing May 1 · 9d

LL152 gas inspection Jul 14

Live feed

streaming · 127 buildings

DOB · C

Failure to maintain, exterior wall

412 W 47th St · Manhattan · BIN 1086422

2m ago

HPD · B

No heat — apartment 3F

88 Bergen St · Brooklyn · BIN 3009844

8m ago

311 · NEW

Construction after hours

214 E 28th St · Manhattan · BIN 1016718

14m ago

OATH · CLEARED

Hearing dismissed — fine vacated

119 Ave A · Manhattan · NOV 35611290H

1h ago

— The problem

Lenders underwrite NYC differently.

An open ECB judgment on a 6-unit Brooklyn walk-up doesn't behave like a routine title exception. It shows up on underwriting's radar, the title insurer asks for clearance, and the closing attorney puts a hold on the file until every number has a dismissal letter attached.

01

Refi escrow holds

Lenders routinely carve 2x–3x the outstanding violation amount into escrow until every open violation shows CURED or DISMISSED. Closing closes, but your capital doesn't.

02

Title insurer carve-outs

First American, Stewart, Chicago Title — each will carve exceptions for open ECB, OATH, and HPD findings. Your policy has holes until the record is clean.

03

Buyer's-attorney clearance

Buy-side counsel requests confirmation letters, which means every open item needs an affirmative dismissal — not silence, not a closed inspection, a formal dismissal.

— Clearance workflow

From discovery to DISMISSED — in five steps.

Each engagement runs the same workflow. We don't improvise. Every step has a deliverable, every deliverable has a deadline, and every deadline is tracked against your closing date.

STEP 01

Record pull · within 24 hours

Comprehensive pull across 10 agencies — DOB, HPD, ECB, OATH, FDNY, 311, DEP, DOH, PRM, DOT. Historical and current. Our detection engine catches items that don't appear on a standard title search.

STEP 02

Categorize

Which violations are cure-able, which require hearings, which should be disclosed rather than cleared. Sent back as a one-page schedule your attorney can paste into the closing package.

STEP 03

Cure and file

Licensed professionals dispatched in parallel across the entire record. Master plumbers, electricians, PEs and RAs — each assigned their lane, each filing their certificate of correction on an accelerated timeline.

STEP 04

OATH representation

Hearing reps appear on every open ECB/OATH docket. Mitigation argued where defensible, payment negotiated where not. Every outcome comes back with a signed order of dismissal.

STEP 05

Dismissal tracking

We watch the agency status daily until every violation shows DISMISSED, CERTIFIED, or PAID. You get a clean closing sheet — lender-accepted, title-insurer-accepted, attorney-accepted.

9 days

Avg clearance time

$4,200

Avg engagement fee

100%

Lender-accepted

47

Closings cleared 2024

— Case study

47 violations. 30 days. Clean title.

CASE STUDY · ACQUISITION · BROOKLYN

A mid-size Brooklyn portfolio had 47 open violations at acquisition. Cleared in 30 days.

Twelve buildings across Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy. HPD, ECB, DOB, FDNY — seven years of accumulated enforcement. The buyer's lender quoted an $180K escrow hold. We ran the full clearance inside the closing window, dropped the escrow to $0, and handed the closing attorney a dismissal binder his title underwriter accepted without comment.

Read the full breakdown

47

Violations cleared

30d

Closing to dismissal

$180K

Escrow hold released

12

Buildings in portfolio

— Pricing

Flat fees, keyed to the deal.

Single building

$2,500 – $6,500

Depending on violation count, agency mix, and cure complexity. Covers the full clearance workflow end-to-end.

Up to ~15 violations
One address
Standard 10-day clearance

Portfolio

Contact enterprise

For acquisition packages, portfolio refinancings, and UPREIT conversions. Scoped against the deal timeline and violation inventory.

Multi-building scope
Dedicated operations lead
Custom SLA

Emergency

Premium

For closings under 7 days. Rush dispatch across our partner network, parallel OATH appearance, daily status calls with counsel.

Under 7-day closings
Rush partner dispatch
Daily counsel calls

— Request closing quote

Tell us about the deal. We'll price the clearance.

Reply within one business day with a scoped fee, a clearance schedule, and — if your closing is tight — a same-day intake slot.

Property address

Target closing date Estimated open violations

Transaction type

Name Email

Sent to [email protected] · 1 business day turnaround

— Trusted by attorneys and brokers across New York

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— Frequently asked

Questions about DOB violations removal in NYC.

What does NYC DOB violations removal actually involve?

DOB violations removal in NYC means three things working in parallel: licensed professionals filing certificates of correction for cure-able items, hearing reps appearing at OATH on every open ECB docket tied to a DOB violation, and an attorney-grade clearance schedule that the title insurer and lender will accept. We handle all three on the same engagement.

How long does DOB violations removal take in NYC?

Most clearances close inside the buyer's closing window — typically 9 to 21 days from engagement to a clean schedule. Class 1 immediately hazardous violations are escalated first; lesser violations cure in parallel. We will tell you up front if your closing window is too tight before we accept the engagement.

How much does DOB violations removal cost?

It depends on the count, the class, and the agency mix. Average closing-track engagement is ~$4,200 across all violations, including OATH hearing representation, certificates of correction, and dismissal tracking. We quote flat per-violation rather than hourly so you know the exposure before signing.

Can you handle DOB violations removal alongside HPD and ECB?

Yes — and you almost always need to. A DOB violation often pulls an ECB notice and an HPD complaint into the same building file. Our clearance workflow runs across all 10 NYC agencies in parallel, so DOB violations removal is bundled with HPD, ECB/OATH, FDNY, and 311 clearance on the same schedule.

Do you guarantee DOB violations removal?

We don't cure non-cure-able violations — some items are structural and require disclosure rather than removal. For everything cure-able, our 100% dismissal rate is on the closings we have accepted. We won't accept an engagement we cannot complete inside the window.

— Ready to clear

Your deal shouldn't die on an ECB judgment from 2019.

Send us the address and the closing date. We'll come back with a clearance schedule that fits inside your window — or we'll tell you up front if it doesn't.

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