You closed on the building. Here's its compliance calendar

A seven-step play for a property management or building compliance firm. It starts from NYC Open Data, stacks Firecrawl on top, and ends in a message to the new owner that is useful before anyone replies.

Deploy in Glider

Installs this workflow, five project tables and a draft campaign. Source access and any external outputs are checked before research.

Category: Property and construction
Sources: 2
Steps: 7

The workflow

TriggerNYC Open DataDeed transfers, open violations and building data
Evidence
FirecrawlInspection cycles and filing deadlines
Artifact
What you hand overA first-year compliance calendar: open violations, upcoming inspections and filing deadlines.
Contact
GliderFinds the new owner, with a verified work email and a phone
Message
Send itFrom your own mailboxes, evidence attached

Why it earns attention

A new building owner inherits open violations and inspection deadlines that nobody listed in the sale. In New York they are all public, so you can hand over the calendar before the first fine lands.

The play in seven steps

01
Catch the sale
NYC Open Data
What you pull
ACRIS deed transfers for buildings in your area: address, buyer entity, sale date and price.
Why it matters
A new owner is building their to-do list right now. They have not found everything yet.
Example
215 West 28th St · deed recorded Sept 18 · buyer: a new LLC
02
Find what's already open
NYC Open Data
What you pull
DOB violations and filings for the building: open violations, their type and date, and the building's height and age from PLUTO.
Why it matters
Open violations carry penalties and block some permits. Building height decides which inspection programs apply.
Example
3 open DOB violations · 12 stories · built 1925
03
Work out the deadlines
Firecrawl
What you pull
The rules for the programs that apply to that building: facade inspection cycles, gas piping inspections, elevator and boiler filings, and their due dates.
Why it matters
These are the dates the previous owner may not have passed on.
Example
Facade inspection filing due Feb 2027 · gas piping inspection due 2028
04
Build the calendar
Your artifact
What you build
A first-year calendar with each violation, inspection and filing, the date, and what it takes.
Why it works
It gives a new owner the whole picture on one page, which is what they bought a property manager for.
Example
3 violations to cure · 4 filings in 12 months · first deadline in 90 days
05
Check before you send
Check that violations are still open on the DOB site the day you send; some are resolved but not yet updated. Confirm each program's dates for that exact building.
06
Find the new owner in Glider
Glider
Search for
OwnerAsset managerManaging memberDirector of property management
Why them
The buyer entity's principal makes the call on management. The asset manager is responsible for the first-year budget.
What you get
A work email and a direct phone, with the email verified before it goes into a sequence.
07
Send the evidence, then run the first test
To: the new ownerEvery line comes from a step above
ACRIS shows you closed on 215 West 28th in September.² DOB lists three open violations on the building,² and the facade inspection filing is due in February.³ I put every violation, inspection and filing for your first year into one calendar.⁴ Want it?
- Facts from the data (the number is the step)
- What you built for them
- One small ask
Why it works
It is about the building they just bought, and it hands them deadlines they may not know about. It is useful whether or not they hire you.
First test
Twenty recent commercial transfers with at least one open violation.
Success looks like
Three management conversations out of fifteen recent sales.