Multi-Family Home Inspection in Flatbush, NY

What We Typically Find on Multi-Family Home Inspection in Flatbush

Flatbush multi-family stock is largely 1920s two-family brick row houses and attached wood-frame along the Cortelyou Road and Newkirk Plaza corridors, with Victorian single-families that have been informally converted scattered throughout the Ditmas Park, Beverley Square, and Albemarle micro-neighborhoods. The common multi-family inspection findings: certificate-of-occupancy reconciliation when an originally single-family home now operates as two or three units (Multiple Dwelling Law applies once a building serves 3+ families), party-wall plumbing and electrical that's been split without proper sub-panels, missing draftstopping at the floor-to-wall transitions, and steam-heating systems with single-pipe risers carrying loads they were never designed for. We check every kitchen and bath against the legal floor plan, verify means of egress from every sleeping room, and pull the C of O on file with HPD before drafting the report.

What We Inspect on a Multi-Family Home Inspection

• Unit-by-unit walkthrough and documentation
• Shared plumbing stacks and drainage verification
• Electrical service entrance and separate-meter confirmation
• Fire-rated assemblies between units (floors, walls, doors)
• Common-area roof, basement, mechanical rooms
• Unit-specific HVAC, kitchens, bathrooms
• Certificate of Occupancy review (where applicable)
• Tenant-safety observations (egress, smoke/CO detectors)
• Photo-rich report sectioned per unit + common areas