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Greg Larson
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Code Violation Lists

Greg Larson
  • Investor
  • Knoxville, TN
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Have you guys ever gone to your local municipalities and asked for a list of properties with code violations?  I recently went to several of my local offices and requested "A list of all residential properties with open, unpaid, or current code violations"

One of the responses I received was..  "Unfortunately, we do not organize our property files in a manner where we can provide the list you requested. The time and resources required to create such a list would be thus be considered an unduly burdensome request."

I'm trying to figure out if there is a better way I should ask for this information, or if this particular municipality is an anomaly.   

Thanks in advance for any input!

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Jordan H.
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Jordan H.
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@Gregory Larson 

What location are you interested in? 

Many times the city will have a portal where you can search for code violations. other times they keep a nice list on their open data portal and you can export  a csv with all the relavent info. 

Be sure not to talk to the county for code violations they rarely keep this data at the county level. Its almost always kept at the city level. 

You can always try an open records request as well. 

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