The yearly apartment inspections

Lead paint: Once a year where a child under six lives
Pests and mold: Once a year, in every apartment
Records: Kept for ten years

Lead paint

Where a child under six lives in an apartment, HPD requires a visual check for lead paint hazards at least once a year, and sooner if the owner learns of a condition that may cause a hazard or a tenant complains about one. HPD says owners do not need to hire a professional for the visual check.

Mice, cockroaches, rats and mold

HPD lists a yearly inspection of apartments for mice, cockroaches, rats and mold as an owner duty, and says there are no required qualifications to carry it out. HPD also says owners give tenants a notice and the city's fact sheet about indoor allergens with each lease.

Records

HPD says the records of the lead paint checks and the signed yearly notices are kept for ten years. The notices are covered in the January notices to tenants.

How Woodpecker handles it

This is not one of the filings in a Woodpecker plan. Customers get an email reminder before it comes due, and it is listed on their status page.

Check your building

Sources: HPD, report on Local Law 1, fiscal year 2025, HPD, Bulletin to Property Owners, November 2024, HPD, Required Signage and Notices.

HPD's pages behind this guide were last checked on November 10, 2026.