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The city's only notice of a blight ticket is one letter to the taxpayer address on file. No email, no call. The record itself is the only thing that never misses, so we read all of it: blight, water, taxes, permits, the Certificate of Compliance, plus the Wayne County recordings a title search misses.
New blight ticket · 15083 Evergreen Rd
§22-2-88 solid waste, $200. The 21-day appeal window is open.
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Every finding comes with its resolution path: the deadline tracked, the evidence the city expects, and a compiled documentation packet ready for DAH.
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Until they become liens, denied permits, and failed closings.
Open blight judgments don't show in a standard county title search until the city records a lien. One missed judgment can unwind a closing.
Miss a hearing and a default judgment is entered. After 21 days the set-aside window closes and a 10% late penalty lands on top.
Unpaid DWSD balances become a priority lien under MCL 123.161 that survives the sale and follows the property.
Unpaid judgments block DAH blight clearance — BSEED holds your permits, certificates, and variances until the balance clears.
Open judgments deny your Certificate of Compliance. Without it, tenants can legally place rent into escrow.
Inspectors can re-issue daily for uncorrected issues. A single $200 notice can compound into thousands.
Open blight judgments don't show in a standard county title search until the city records a lien. One missed judgment can unwind a closing.
Miss a hearing and a default judgment is entered. After 21 days the set-aside window closes and a 10% late penalty lands on top.
Unpaid DWSD balances become a priority lien under MCL 123.161 that survives the sale and follows the property.
Unpaid judgments block DAH blight clearance — BSEED holds your permits, certificates, and variances until the balance clears.
Open judgments deny your Certificate of Compliance. Without it, tenants can legally place rent into escrow.
Inspectors can re-issue daily for uncorrected issues. A single $200 notice can compound into thousands.
“We had $4,000 in tickets from 2021 that had quietly turned into liens. We didn't find out until a refinance title search.”
“A tenant was putting the container out on the wrong day every week. We were getting $130 fines we didn't know about. Once we set up monitoring, we caught it immediately.”
“We were about to close on a Land Bank property and the check flagged an old grass ticket the seller hadn't disclosed. Saved us from inheriting a judgment.”
Sixty-nine Detroit violation codes, documented: the fine, the evidence the city expects, the dismissal approach, and the deadlines that decide it. When a ticket lands, look up the code and start from its resolution path.
Every code links to a step-by-step resolution guide. Free.
Open the resolution libraryEvery open blight finding with its balance and status, your Certificate of Compliance and rental status, any open building permits, a plain-English answer, and an action plan ordered by deadline, with links to the code-by-code resolution guides. The $29 report adds the deeper records a title search misses: water debt, property taxes, tax-forfeiture stage, demolition liens, lead clearance, and the Wayne County recordings (mortgages, foreclosure filings, judgments), plus the written playbook per finding and the downloadable PDF.
A title search checks recorded liens at the county level. Detroit blight judgments, water liens, and tax issues often have not been recorded there yet: they live only in the city databases. We surface the municipal records a standard title search misses.
We help you organize it. For each ticket we show the city's published deadline and requirements and help you assemble your evidence and statement into one packet you submit to DAH yourself. We are a document tool, not a law firm, and nothing we provide is legal advice.
No. The product is built on City of Detroit municipal records. It does not scan the suburbs or other cities.
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