What a vacate order actually means
Full vs partial, who issues them, and why a rescinded one still matters.
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The problemThey know everything about you.
They know everything about you.
You know almost nothing about them.
Credit history
Full report from all 3 bureaus
Income verification
Pay stubs, tax returns, employment letters
Rental history
Previous landlords, eviction records
Your online presence
Social media, Google results, public records
A listing
Written to sell, not to inform
A 10-minute showing
If you're lucky
A broker's word
"It won't last long"
That’s it – and the lease runs at least a year.
You sign on three things.
Everything else is already public.
500,000+
violations the city calls immediately hazardous, issued in the last two years.
600,000+
complaints about heat and hot water in the last two years.
75,000+
city rat inspections failed in the last two years.
30,000+
evictions carried out in the last two years.
Four numbers out of more than 15 million records – plus what people say about the place.
The solution
What if you could background check them back?
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Building safety
Fire, gas, electrical, structure.
Health hazards
Lead, mold, pests, bedbugs.
Living comfort
Heat and hot water, plumbing, noise.
Landlord record
Evictions, harassment, court cases, liens.
Area context
Crime, street noise, construction nearby.
What people say
Google reviews, unedited and unranked.
How it works
You search. We read. You decide.
Start with what you have
You don't need to know who owns it or who runs it. Any of those reaches the same record.
We read every source at once
HPD, DOB, DOHMH, 311, NYPD, FDNY, housing court, evictions, liens. All public, all scattered, none of them talking to each other.
You get a verdict, not a dump
Ranked by priority, measured against buildings like it, and traceable back to the agency that published each figure.
Pricing
The math isn’t complicated.
You’re already committing thousands to move in. VeriCrib costs less per day than a subway ride.
Application fee$20
First month's rent$3,500
Security deposit$3,500
Move-in fee$1,000
Moving costs$1,500
Total commitment$9,520
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Winter coats indoors in February
Showering at the gym (again)
Becoming an amateur exterminator
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Learn the records
What the records actually mean.
Free guides to NYC’s housing records. No address needed.
NYC violation classes: what A, B, and C mean
The legal repair deadlines – and why the open date matters more than the count.
NYC's heat law, decoded
Heat season dates, the exact temperature rules, and what to do when it's off.
The NYC housing agencies, explained
HPD, DOB, FDNY, DOHMH and ECB – who issues what, and where it lands.
Closed doesn't mean fixed
What a violation status actually tells you, and why clean records deserve a read.
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