Every lead on Distressed Signals has at least one active City of Buffalo code violation — fused with assessment-roll ownership intelligence and scored by urgency. The out-of-state LLC with 22 open violations floats to the top. You call them first.
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We monitor City of Buffalo code enforcement — every violation the city posts, from unsafe structures to heating failures, across all 93,568 parcels.
Each violation joins the county assessment roll at the parcel level: who owns it, where they actually live, LLC status, tenure. This join is the signal national tools don't have.
Violation severity, recency decay, and owner-profile pressure compound into a single urgency score. Fresh structural on an absentee LLC outranks stale grass, every time.
Filter by property class, owner location, and score. Full violation history in the inspector's own words, plus mailing address and one-click Street View.
No black boxes. Open any parcel and see exactly why it scored what it scored: violation load, severity, and each owner-profile factor, itemized. When you knock on the door, you already know the story.
A 70+ means serious active violations on an owner with every reason to sell. Below 40 is background noise — we still show it, but your time belongs at the top.
See today's top scores — freePropStream, DealMachine, and the rest work county-level lien data resold to thousands of investors at once. City code enforcement — the earliest, loudest distress signal in Buffalo — isn't in their pipeline, because wiring up one city's data doesn't scale to 3,000 counties.
Distressed Signals: we do exactly one market, all the way down. City violations fused with ownership at the parcel level — a lead source your competition's subscription literally does not contain.
The city's violation data is public. So is the assessment roll. But they don't reference each other, the violation feed is a hose of 48,000 records, and nothing tells you which of the 93,568 parcels matter this week.
Distressed Signals: the join, the severity classification, the decay math, and the owner intelligence are already done — updated as the city posts, ranked and filterable in one screen.
Severity-weighted, time-decayed violation points plus itemized owner bonuses. Every score sums in front of you.
Full history per parcel — dates, sections, status, and the inspector's own wording. Know the rehab story before you call.
Top-scored parcels plotted across Buffalo. Distress clusters jump out in seconds — plan a route, not a wander.
Property class, owner location (out-of-state / out-of-area / local investor), minimum score, newest activity.
Every property behind one mailing address, ranked by distressed inventory. One conversation, multiple deals. (Premium)
Chronic violations stay visible until they close or the parcel sells. Persistence means pressure — we surface it, not hide it.
A free account browses the entire scored list — no credit card, no time limit. Addresses and owner intel unlock when you're ready.
Free shows you the signal. Membership shows you the door to knock on.
Every tier sees the complete inventory — nothing is withheld. Premium just sees it first. In a one-market race, the first call usually wins the deal.
Two public primary sources: City of Buffalo code enforcement records and the Erie County assessment roll. We ingest directly from the source — no resellers, no repackaged lists — and fuse them at the parcel level.
We ingest as the city publishes new violation data. Scores decay in real time — a violation from last month outweighs the same violation from last year, so the ranking always reflects current pressure.
Because depth beats breadth. National platforms cover 3,000 counties an inch deep and can't justify wiring up any one city's code enforcement. We cover one market completely — which is exactly why our leads aren't in their databases.
The entire scored inventory: every parcel's score, violation count, worst severity, property class, owner profile, and ZIP. Addresses, owner names, mailing addresses, violation detail, and the map unlock with a membership. No time limit, no credit card.
Each active violation earns points by severity, decaying as it ages. The parcel's violation total is compressed so chronic buildings don't drown out sharp new distress, then owner-profile bonuses (absentee, out-of-state, LLC, long ownership) are added. Every lead shows its own itemized breakdown.
When a parcel newly enters the scored list, Premium members see it immediately. Core and Free accounts see the same lead 48 hours later. Nobody is ever denied a lead — Premium members are simply first in line, and in a single-market race for motivated sellers, the first conversation usually wins the deal.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Your founding-member rate is locked for as long as you stay subscribed.
7,700 scored leads are live right now. The question is whether you see them before the investor across town does.