Multi-Family Home Inspection in Kensington, NY
Same-day reports for buyers and homeowners across Kensington and the wider Brooklyn community.
Why Multi-Family Home Inspection Matters in Kensington
Multi-family buildings have concerns a single-family checklist will miss. We inspect each unit individually, verify shared plumbing stacks and electrical service entrances, confirm separate-meter setups where expected, check fire-rated assemblies between units, and produce a unit-by-unit report buyers and lenders can use for negotiations and financing. Bilingual reports available on request.
What to Know About Multi-Family Home Inspection in Kensington
Kensington is mostly small multi-family: of roughly 5,400 small residential buildings the city's tax-lot file on NYC Open Data lists for ZIP 11218, an area wider than Kensington itself, two-family is the largest class at 48 percent, the median year built is 1920 and lots are most commonly twenty feet wide. On a two-unit house of that vintage and width the recurring questions are a drain line shared by both units that gives way first at the older connection, an original electrical service never sized for two households cooling at once, steam supply piping narrowed by scale, and side-yard drainage that runs stormwater toward whichever basement entry sits lower. A narrow lot also means the two units share a great deal of building: one party wall, one roof, one drainage path, so a defect in any of them is rarely one unit's problem alone. The walkthrough and the report summary can be done in Bangla or in English, whichever the buyers prefer.
The Kensington Housing Stock We Know
About a quarter of the housing units in ZIP 11218 are in one- and two-family houses; nearly half are in buildings of twenty units or more. Close to one occupied unit in nine still heats with fuel oil, which makes the tank, its fill line and its age a first question on those blocks.
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
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