Need Advice: HPD and DOB Classification are Different

HPD classifies a property as 6 A units, but DOB classifies it as C0 Three Families. Will this be a big issue to sort out if we purchase it? Does one trump the other?

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in Home Buying 9 years and 5 months ago

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green-mountain | 9 years and 5 months ago

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You could try code enforcement- ask for the block and lot unit. (212) 863-6620 for Brooklyn, (212) 863-503 for Manhattan.

Augustiner | 9 years and 5 months ago

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Does anybody know what’s the best way to get HPD to update their records once a new C of O is issued?

bklynteacher | 9 years and 5 months ago

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Agreed that the 3 family CO is what matters. You’ll not have any trouble with bank or with DOB if you intend to use the house according to that designation. If you wanted 6 units, you’ve got trouble. I bought a house that I wanted as a 3 family (for 3 co-buyers and owners), but that the CO stated was 2 families and a doctor’s office on the lower two floors even though nobody had any memory of any use apart from 3 families. (Department of Finance had recorded as 3 family…but that didn’t matter.) I got a mortgage only by the bank taking a large chunk of change as escrow pending our secure of a 3-family CO. That has been more complicated that we anticipated, for all sorts of reasons, but mainly because 2 to 3 family is a big shift in relevant codes (handicap ramps, sprinkler systems). I would guess that 3 family to 6 family is another big shift. But again, if you want the house for the stated CO, you should be fine.

resident2 | 9 years and 5 months ago

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HPD does not update their info unless someone goes and directs them to. The property may have previously been a 6 family and someone downsized it to a 3 family. The legal use is the C of O issued by the DOB.
It is not a major issue, but if you do buy it, do go and get it straight with HPD; I once had a tenant that used the out of date HPD record as a 7 family to claim that she was now rent stabilized tenant even though it was legal 4 and she moved into as a 4 family.