Interior Repair & Finishes · five boroughs
Every one of these interior violations has a correction deadline. Somebody has to do the work.
HPD writes a Class A, B or C violation for a defective floor, a broken wall, a fallen ceiling — and the order carries a date by which it must be corrected and certified. The landlord either hires an interior contractor or carries the violation and the penalty. We watch every one of those orders across the five boroughs, filter to interior work, and name the managing agent registered with HPD.
Every violation in New York has a deadline, a penalty, and somebody who has to hire you.
Interior Repair & Finishes leads, $199 a month.
First month free on Alert. No contract, cancel any time. That works out to about $3 per ranked interior lead with the owner or managing agent already named on it.
The arithmetic, in interior job values
One job. That is the whole break-even.
Interior work carries the highest median declared value of any division we track. That is what makes the subscription arithmetic almost embarrassing.
Job values are the declared valuations filed with the City on work at the buildings we score, not our estimates. Where a trade has too few declared values to be honest about, we do not publish a median — which is why there is no mold or lead page here yet.
One real record, start to finish
What a interior lead actually looks like
Public record, pulled from the feed, scored, and handed over with the contact resolved. This is a real open violation — the agent's name is the part you are paying for, so it is withheld here.
871 East 179 Street Bronx
§ 27-2005 ADM CODE — properly repair with similar material the broken or defective wood floor in the foyer
The Play
The order names the room and the material. Quote the floor, not the apartment — a landlord facing a certification date wants the specific defect closed out, not a scope study. Lead with the correction date, because they already know it and nobody else who calls them will.
Every lead carries one of these. It is the difference between a row of data and knowing what to say when they pick up.
Why this is not a lead list
Marketplace leads sell intent. A violation is an obligation with a date on it.
A homeowner filling in a form has decided to renovate. A landlord holding an open Class C order has a legal deadline and an inspector who will come back. Those are not the same buyer, and only one of them is in a hurry.
Shared lead marketplaces sell the same form to as many contractors as will pay for it, so the job goes to whoever calls in the first ten minutes and quotes lowest. A violation is not sold to you — it is public record we found, ranked, and handed you before your competitors ran the same query.
Nobody in a marketplace tells you the deadline. The deadline is the entire reason the call converts.
How it works
Four steps, every night, before you are awake.
We read the city, nightly
Fourteen datasets — DOB, ECB, HPD, FISP — refreshed every night. See every one on the data page.
We keep the ones with a deadline
Most of what the city publishes is paperwork. We keep records that carry a correction date, a filing date or an unpaid balance — something that forces a decision.
We name the human
Owner of record, or the managing agent registered with HPD where one is on file, with a confidence band on the resolution so you know how hard the number was to find.
It is in your inbox before you open the truck
Ranked, filtered to your trade and boroughs, with The Play on each one. 6:00am on First Look, 9:00am on Alert and Pro.
Against the alternatives
What interior contractors use now, and what it costs them.
| BuildDocket | Shared lead marketplaces | Pulling NYC Open Data yourself | Referrals and word of mouth | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What triggers the lead | An open violation with a correction deadline | Somebody filled in a form | Whatever you remembered to query | Chance |
| Is there a deadline on it | Yes, and it is on the record | No | Only if you built the logic | No |
| Contact resolved | Owner or HPD-registered agent, with a confidence band | The form filler | You do the reverse lookups | Already known |
| How many others got it | Capped by tier | As many as paid | Unknown | One |
| Told you what to say | The Play, on every lead | No | No | N/A |
| Monthly cost | $199, first month free | Per-lead, and rising | Your time, nightly | Nothing, and unpredictable |
We are a commercial general contractor that got tired of buying leads from people who had never run a job. That is the whole origin story.
Do not take the numbers on trust.
Every figure on this page is read live from the same database that builds the digest. The data page lists all fourteen city datasets, the record counts, when each was last refreshed, and the open count for every division we sell.
Questions
Interior contractors ask these first.
Is interior work really where the violations are?
It is the largest division we track. Interior repair orders are the most common thing HPD writes, because most of what goes wrong in a rented apartment is a surface a tenant lives against.
These are rental buildings — do landlords pay?
They pay because the alternative is a penalty and a re-inspection. That is the difference between a violation lead and a renovation enquiry: the budget already exists, and the deadline decides when it is spent.
Do you include the apartment number?
Yes, where HPD publishes it. The order text names the room and the unit, which is what lets you quote without a site visit.
What does it cost, and is there a contract?
Alert is $199 a month with the first month free. No contract, cancel any time. Pro is $399 and First Look is $899.
How many other contractors get the same lead?
Capped by tier rather than sold to whoever turns up. The point of a cap is that the lead is still worth calling when you get it.
Where does the data come from?
NYC Open Data — DOB, ECB, HPD and the FISP filings — plus the registration and tax roll records used to resolve the contact. It is public record. The work is in filtering it, ranking it and naming the human, and that is what you are paying for.
Get tomorrow's interior list free.
One month of Alert on us — the real digest, your trade, your boroughs, agents named. If it does not put you in front of work you would have missed, cancel and owe nothing.
Your division is already set to interior — change it if that is not your work. Currently New York City only. $199 a month after the free month, no contract, cancel any time. No card up front.
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