Build an Elevator Permit and Inspection Tracker for Property Portfolios

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   Master one jurisdiction's rulebook first

   Big cities with large elevator stocks publish their permit, periodic inspection, and testing requirements, and many expose per-unit permit and violation records publicly. Encode one city's full rule set (deadlines by equipment type, cure windows, fine schedules) before touching a second.

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   Bootstrap portfolios from public records

   Where the jurisdiction publishes device registries, a manager can type an address and watch their units, current permit status, and open violations appear pre-loaded. That import moment is the demo that sells the product.

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   Build the alert ladder

   Deadlines get alerts at 90, 60, 30, and 7 days, escalating from email to text, with each alert naming the required action and the consequence of missing it. The product is the certainty that nothing slips.

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   Track the contractor layer

   Elevator service contracts, test reports, and correction records live with third-party elevator companies; a document slot per unit and a shared view for the service contractor closes the loop when the city asks for proof.

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   Price per building, sell per portfolio

   A monthly per-building price in the tens of dollars reads as trivial against one fine or one day of a shutdown order; portfolio pricing wins the managers with dozens of buildings who feel this pain most.

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   Expand jurisdiction by jurisdiction with customers waiting

   Each new city is real work (different rules, different records); add them where paying customers hold portfolios, and note the adjacent expansions (boilers, facades, backflow) that reuse the same compliance-calendar engine.

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