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Are your NYC listings breaking the law on fees?

The FARE Act and New York State's rental fee rules took effect in 2025. We'll scan your live listings and email you a free, plain-English audit — usually within 24 hours. No card. No spam. No data sold to enforcement, ever.

1 Enter your apartment building's address
100% free No credit card ~60 seconds Data never shared
2 Confirm and tell us where to send the audit
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By requesting an audit you agree to receive your report at the email above. We'll never sell your address, never share it with NYC enforcement agencies, and you can request deletion any time at privacy@brynsights.com.

Your audit is on the way

We've added your building to the queue. A plain-English report will land in your inbox within 24 hours — usually faster.

How it works

Three steps. About one minute. Then we do the rest.

You don't need to install anything, log in anywhere, or pull data out of your PMS. We work from public listings and the city's own filings.

1

Enter your address

Pick from the dropdown so we know exactly which property to audit. We use the address to find your live listings on Apartments.com, Zillow, StreetEasy, and your own website.

2

We scan and compare

Our compliance engine checks fee disclosures, application charges, broker-fee handling, total-rent claims, and required notices against the FARE Act and DCWP guidance.

3

You get a clear PDF

Within 24 hours we email a written audit: what's compliant, what's drifting, and which fixes to make first. No sales call required, no follow-up unless you ask.

What's in the audit

The checks that matter under New York's new fee rules

Every report covers these areas. If a check passes, we say so. If it fails, you get the exact source URL and the specific rule it violates — so a paralegal or property manager can fix it in minutes.

Broker-fee disclosures

Whether the listing makes clear who pays the broker fee under the FARE Act.

Application fees

The $20 statutory cap plus the receipt & refund requirements New York added in 2024.

Total monthly cost

Whether the price shown to renters includes mandatory amenity, admin, and utility fees.

Late fee terms

That late fees are capped, disclosed up front, and not stacked beyond what state law allows.

Security deposit limits

One-month-rent maximum and the timeline for itemized return at lease end.

Pet fees & deposits

Whether non-refundable pet fees comply with NY's deposit-cap interpretation.

Listing consistency

Whether your fees are the same across Apartments.com, Zillow, StreetEasy, and your own site.

Required NYC notices

Source-of-income, lead paint, bedbug history, and other building-level disclosures NYC mandates.

The law in plain English

What the FARE Act and NY rental fee rules actually require

You probably don't have time to read 60 pages of statute. Here's the short version — and the parts most likely to bite a landlord who hasn't kept up.

FARE Act

Local Law 119 of 2024. Brokers may only charge tenants when the tenant hires them directly. If the landlord hires the broker, the landlord pays — and the listing must say so.

Up to $2,000 per violation

Application fee cap

NY State caps tenant application fees at $20 (covering background and credit checks combined). A receipt and a copy of any report obtained must be furnished, even if the application is denied.

$1,000+ for repeat patterns

Truth-in-pricing

Mandatory monthly fees (amenity, admin, parking-required-by-lease) must be folded into the displayed monthly rent — not buried in fine print or shown only after a tour.

DCWP enforcement action

Security deposit limits

One month's rent max. Must be returned with an itemized statement within 14 days of move-out. Pet "deposits" treated the same way under most interpretations.

Treble damages

Late fees

Capped at $50 or 5% of monthly rent — whichever is less. Must be in the lease, can't be charged before the 5-day grace period, and can't compound.

Tenant counter-claim risk

Required disclosures

Source-of-income (Local Law 10) and other anti-discrimination notices must appear in listings. Lead-paint & bedbug histories must be on file and offered to tenants.

CCHR fines start at $250k
Sources: NYC Department of Consumer & Worker Protection, NYC Commission on Human Rights, NY State General Obligations Law §7-108. We summarize — we're not your lawyer.
Our promise

We don't sell to enforcement. Ever.

  • Brynsights does not sell to government agencies. Not the city, not the state, not federal. Our customers are the operators we audit, not the regulators. This product is built to keep you compliant — not to flag you.
  • Your address and email stay with us. We never share, sell, license, or rent the data you submit here. Not to law firms hunting class actions. Not to lobbyists. Not to anyone.
  • You own your data. Email privacy@brynsights.com any time and we'll delete every record we have on your address within 7 days. We send written confirmation.
  • One audit, no funnel. We won't drip-email you, won't add you to a newsletter, and won't pass you to a sales rep unless you click "talk to someone" inside the report itself.
Frequently asked

What landlords usually ask us first

Yes. The audit is free for any single building. There is no payment step, no card, no trial. Brynsights covers the cost because we'd rather meet operators while we're helpful than after they've been fined.
Our paid product (the Fee Transparency Compliance Monitor) watches portfolios continuously and across multiple jurisdictions. The free check is a one-shot snapshot of one building. Most operators who use it never need the paid product — and that's fine.
No. The report is yours alone. We do not file it, post it, list it in a public registry, or hand it to any agency. We don't even keep an aggregated leaderboard.
That's actually one of the most common findings — a different application fee on Apartments.com vs. Zillow vs. your own site. The audit cross-references all major ILS feeds we can find for your address and tells you which version a regulator would treat as authoritative.
Submit one address to start, then reply to the audit email. We'll set up a portfolio batch and run it as a courtesy — no contract required. We just ask that you give us a couple of days for portfolios over 25 buildings.
No, and the audit isn't legal advice. We compare your listings against current published rules and DCWP guidance and flag what would likely fail an enforcement check. For interpretation of edge cases, take the audit to your housing-law counsel.
Type the full street address and submit anyway — the dropdown only shows buildings we've already indexed in NYC, but we can audit any address you enter. Our team reviews each new submission within a few hours.

Find out where you stand — before the city does.

Sixty seconds, one email, and a written audit you can actually use. We'll never pressure you to buy anything.