For owners & property managers
Owning or managing NYC buildings means running dozens of city deadlines a year — facade cycles, boiler and elevator tests, gas piping, energy filings, registrations — while violations land without warning. DailyDog gives every building a management hub, watches the record daily, and barks before the penalty meters start.
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The problem with the job
Facade windows depend on the block number. Gas piping depends on the community district. Energy filings hit every May, registration every September, boilers and elevators on their own anniversaries. Ten buildings means a different set of dates for each one — tracked, today, in somebody's spreadsheet.
The first you hear of a new summons is often a certified letter — or the owner forwarding one, annoyed. By then the hearing clock is running and the cheap window to fix it is closing. The record existed days earlier. Somebody just had to be looking.
Take over a building and you take over its record: open jobs from 2009, expired permits, defaulted summonses quietly accruing interest. The owner assumes you know. The first owner report is where you find out — unless you looked first.
The compliance calendar
DailyDog works out which laws cover each building — from its size, class, units, and location — checks the city's records for what's been filed, and puts every upcoming window on one calendar. Per building, and rolled up across everything you watch.
Every 5 years, staggered filing windows
$1,000/month late-filing penalty
Every year, per boiler
$50/month per boiler when late
CAT1 yearly · CAT5 every 5 years, per device
$150/month per device when late
Every 4 years, by community district
Up to $10,000 for failure to certify
Every May 1 (25,000+ sqft)
$500 per quarter it stays unfiled
Every May 1 (25,000+ sqft)
$0.50/sqft per month unfiled
Once a decade, year set by block number
$3,000 the first year it's late
Every year, report kept on file
Violations if unobserved conditions fail
Every September 1 (3+ units)
Blocks housing-court actions until filed
New roll every January — protest by March 1
Miss the window and the higher assessment locks in
Which laws apply is computed per building · deadlines escalate as they approach
The tax watch
Every January the Department of Finance publishes a new assessment roll — and with it, next year's property-tax bill. The Tax Commission gives you until March 1 to protest. Miss the window and the higher number locks in for the year, no appeal.
Every watched building carries its live tax standing: assessed value with the year-over-year move, tax class, exemptions and abatements. When your number jumps, the dog barks the same week the roll lands — and the filing desk prepares the protest application with your numbers already on it. Lapsed STAR or J-51 benefits get flagged too, because benefits die silently.
Every one of them had a protest window. The owners who noticed in January filed by March — the rest are paying the difference all year.
How bad can it get?
These are real buildings, from the city's own hearing records — the largest unpaid penalty balances in New York. None of it happened overnight. It happened one unanswered summons at a time, while nobody was watching.
Hundreds of summonses, most decided by default — nobody answered, so every one landed at the maximum penalty.
See the live public report →Class-1 violations left uncertified, so the daily-penalty meter has been running on the same conditions for years.
See the live public report →A handful of uncured conditions, re-cited again and again — the balance keeps compounding on one Bed-Stuy lot.
See the live public report →Every one of these balances started as a single summons with a hearing date. The watchdog exists so yours never gets past that stage — see the full most-fined list.
The property hub
Everything a building accumulates lives in its hub: the open violations with their cure steps, the compliance calendar, the paperwork, the notes. Manage from here; hand the report to the owner, the board, or your attorney.
247 W 87 ST
Manhattan · BBL 1012340047
Failure to maintain building wall — class 1, uncertified
✓ How to clear this
1. Correct the condition 2. File the Certificate of Correction 3. Answer the hearing
📄 Certificate of Correction drafted · ✎ note: “contractor booked for the 9th”
Work permit — renew so the job can close ($130/work type)
What you run on
Every building you watch is re-checked daily across the city's record systems. New violations, status changes, and approaching filing windows surface in one prioritized feed.
Each building's hub turns open records into case files: hearing countdowns, balances split into base fines versus accruing penalties, cure steps, your notes, and the paperwork — searchable and filterable.
The common cures end in a city form — so the filing desk types it for you. Plain questions in, the official PDF out: filled, e-signed, with exact instructions. OATH requests hand off to the city’s own online form with every field prepared, and assessment protests come out ready to file.
One plain-English dossier per building — risk score, what's open, what it costs, what's next on the calendar. The owner memo, already written.
Do the math
A FISP filing window closes with no report on file and the late-filing penalty runs $1,000 a month until it lands. Three months of slipped scheduling — one busy season — costs a year of Pro thirty times over.
On a 25,000 sqft building the failure-to-file meter runs $0.50 per square foot per month — $12,500 monthly — before anyone even judges the emissions themselves. It's the most expensive clerical error in the portfolio.
The version where the dog was watching: the reminder came a month early, the inspection got booked, the filing landed inside the window, and the owner report reads 'obligation satisfied.' Nothing is what compliance is supposed to cost.
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Taking over a building?
Every management takeover comes with a paper trail you didn't write: open jobs, expired permits, defaulted summonses, filings the last manager skipped. Ten seconds of lookup on day one turns that from a surprise in month three into a line item in your onboarding memo.
Found in month three“The board asked why there was a $19,000 default judgment on the building. It was docketed two managers ago. We'd been on the account for ninety days.”
The record was public the whole time. Run the building before you sign the agreement — and hand the owner the punch list instead of receiving it.
Questions
Every building gets a property hub in the portal — one workspace holding its open violations with cure steps, the compliance calendar, a document vault (your deeds, insurance certs, and inspections next to every city form we prepare), notes pinned to specific summonses, and the report history. Owners run their own building from it; managers run every building on the list from the same place.
Yes. Pro watches 5 properties with daily re-checks and includes 5 report credits a month. Managing more than 5 buildings? Enterprise covers full portfolios — bulk onboarding, team seats, and pricing by unit count. Every watched building gets the same treatment: daily record sweep, compliance calendar, and alerts the moment something changes.
Exactly the question to ask before your first owner report. Run the free lookup on day one: open jobs and permits going back decades, active violations with balances due, and the compliance filings the previous manager did or didn't make. Unlock the full report and you have the punch list — with every record's identifier, status, and cure path — before the owner asks.
The dog starts barking about a month out and escalates as the date approaches — so a facade filing window or a benchmarking deadline never arrives as news. Deadlines show up on each building's compliance calendar and on your portal dashboard, ordered by urgency across every building you watch.
No — it makes them faster and cheaper. Expediters bill hours for finding out what's wrong. DailyDog hands you (and them) the finished diagnosis: every open record, what actually blocks a sign-off, and the exact cure steps. The filing desk also prepares the common city forms itself — typed onto the official PDF from plain-English questions.
You hear about it the next morning, not when a certified letter arrives — and the bark names the summons and what it's for. Click through and its card is already in the building's hub: the hearing date as a countdown, the money split into base fine versus accruing penalties, and a step-by-step playbook — attend this hearing, file this certificate, pay before this dockets as a lien.
Yes. Every watched building carries its DOF tax standing: assessed value with the year-over-year move, tax class, exemptions and abatements. When the new roll lands in January the dog barks any jump immediately — the Tax Commission protest window closes March 1, and a missed window locks in the higher assessment for the year. The filing desk prepares the protest application (TC108) with your numbers already on it, plus exact filing instructions.
Yes — the first month of Basic is free, applied automatically at checkout (no promo code to type). You get the full membership from day one: the property hub, a report credit, the compliance calendar, daily watching, and the filing desk. Cancel any time in the first month and you pay nothing; otherwise it's $29.99/month from month two.
That's the point. Every building gets one plain-English report: the risk score, what's open, what it costs, what's being done, and the calendar of what's due next. It reads like the status memo you were going to write — without the two days of pulling records.
Free lookup on any NYC building. Ten seconds each. Then put the dog on watch and stop tracking deadlines in a spreadsheet.
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