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Blight tickets and balances, Certificate of Compliance status and open permits, read live from City of Detroit records. We explain them in plain English and tell you what to do first.
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15083 Evergreen
Detroit, MI 48223
Owed to the city
$3,965
SampleCity of Detroit recordsRead Oct 10, 2026
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. Hearing set for Oct 14.
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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, and 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, and 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 with the ordinance, the fine schedule and the City's published process, each with its sources. When a ticket lands, look up its code.
Every code links to a step-by-step resolution guide. Free.
Open the resolution libraryWhat three City records say about the address: every blight ticket on the DAH docket since 2010 with its balance, status and hearing date, the Certificate of Compliance and rental status, and recent building permits. The $29 report reads all 17 records, including water, property taxes and tax forfeiture, demolitions, lead clearance and the Wayne County recordings, as a 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.
No. We show what the City's public records say about a property, with the source and the date we read it, and tell you when they change. Questions about a specific ticket go to the Department of Appeals and Hearings at (313) 224-0098, or to a Michigan attorney.
No. The product is built on City of Detroit municipal records. It does not scan the suburbs or other cities.
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