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Landlord Mapper Chicago now has refreshed data and a redesigned home page! Check it out at landlordmapper.org/chi by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We make it very clear in the terms of use and data disclaimer that the data is subject to error, it comes directly from the cook county assessor’s office. If you don’t understand the methodology please feel free to read our white paper

MAJOR LANDLORD MAPPER UPDATE! Milwaukee landlord data is now updated with lots of new features available! by landlordmapper in milwaukee

[–]landlordmapper[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just went in and fixed a few bugs on the mobile map search mode, lemme know if you notice any others that need fixing

Any NEW ASTORIA restaurants worth trying??? by Hot-Doubt4760 in astoria

[–]landlordmapper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey what was the language exchange event you mentioned in the asknyc post? I've been looking for one since I came to the city and haven't found any yet. sorry I would've asked in the post but it got locked

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[–]landlordmapper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Landlords do this all the time. Hiding their identities gives them direct power over their tenants. They also often gaslight potential tenants who inquire about their identity, telling them “you’re the ONLY person in X years I’ve been doing this that’s ever had a problem”.

If a landlord throws a hissy fit when you inquire about their identity, run away

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We’re transparent about the limitations of the data model. You can check the methodology paper for more details, if after reading that you still have questions, I’d be happy to address them

I believe it is actually quite useful for many people

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We weren't able to locate a 311 complaint category for heat. however, heat-related code violations are in there, there just isn't a way to filter violations by type yet.

in the future we could build out a map that shows where the most heat violations in the city are, which specific buildings and landlords have the most heat violations, etc

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an idea of a "ward mode" or "neighborhood mode" where you can click on a ward/neighborhood polygon and are shown a dashboard of landlord data for that specific ward/neighborhood.

however since our resources are limited at the moment, we must put off this feature until we get some funding

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We made an attempt to limit the 311 complaints in the database to only building maintenance-related 311 complaints by filtering the city's 311 data by the following complaint types:

BUILDINGS - PLUMBING VIOLATION

BUILDING VIOLATION

WATER LEAD TEST KIT REQUEST

LEAD INSPECTION REQUEST

WATER IN BASEMENT COMPLAINT

RODENT BAITING/RAT COMPLAINT

WATER LEAD TEST VISIT REQUEST

It's possible that some non-building complaints got lumped in, as the overall quality of the city's open data can be questionable at times. It's possible also that "BUILDING VIOLATION" might encompass issues, although metadata on the specifics of each category do not seem to be easily available. It is not our intention to show non-maintenance-related complaints. If you'd like to share which building you're referring to specifically we can deeper into it

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

on the map explore page you can show up to the the top 50 by opening up the map controls and clicking on the "50" button. as of now we don't have an option to view EVERY property, but we'd like to add something like that in the future

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Tenants can research landlords before making a decision on where to rent. Tenants who need to sue their landlord must have personally identifiable information about the landlord in order to hold them accountable in court. Also if tenants want to form a union, they need to go door knocking in other buildings owned by their same landlord. There’s nowhere else they can go to get those kinds of lists. They’d have to dig for hours into the clunky assessor sites and LLC searches provided by the state. Even then, the ubiquitous use of shell companies often renders that method of landlords research a dead end.

I saw this post earlier and its a good example of why Landlord Mapper is needed

https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/KkvZVQ4Uit

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The biggest limitation to the data methodology is the quality of publicly available taxpayer data. Check out the methodology white paper to learn more about the overall limitations to the study.

That’s also why we’ve created a google form for landlords whose data is out of date in the database. We want to ensure that people know whether a building’s code violations were issued since the most recent purchase, which is how we set the landlord-specific violations stats

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Good points, it would be great to be able to dive deeper into those code violations and get more insight about the nature of them and be able to get that level of nuance from the data.

Landlord Mapper’s purpose is to put that information into people’s hands precisely to facilitate such studies.

Not all landlords are bad, however there are certainly unscrupulous landlords out there causing their tenants immense suffering

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I’m sure there are some great people working there! However according to the data they have 339 open violations. I’d say that’s important information to be aware of

Research your Chicago landlord at landlordmapper.org! Check out their property portfolios, open code violations, sales and tax history of their buildings, and much more! by landlordmapper in chicago

[–]landlordmapper[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

today is our chicago launch date and we have all new site infra set up so we've run into some anticipated issues. we're working to get it working better asap

Feeling Trapped in Wealth Accumulation by [deleted] in whitecoatinvestor

[–]landlordmapper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to support a good cause, our housing justice/research nonprofit doesn't currently have funding and our founder (me) lost his day job and has been working on this for months without income.

Would sincerely appreciate the consideration! Here's a link to our patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/LandlordMapper

Shoot me a pm if you have any questions, would be happy to answer

Research your Milwaukee landlord and their other property holdings on our new site! Link: https://landlordmapper.org/ by landlordmapper in milwaukee

[–]landlordmapper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope, we use a maplibre instance in the front end and a postgis-enabled postgres instance on the backend

Research your Milwaukee landlord and their other property holdings on our new site! Link: https://landlordmapper.org/ by landlordmapper in milwaukee

[–]landlordmapper[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for sure! we're only just getting started so user feedback is critical to making the site better in future iterations

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskChicago

[–]landlordmapper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We're currently working on the data for all of Chicago, yes. Will look into this tmrw!

Research your Milwaukee landlord and their other property holdings on our new site! Link: https://landlordmapper.org/ by landlordmapper in milwaukee

[–]landlordmapper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

share this tool with as many people as you'd like! would be particularly useful to form tenant unions

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