Real estate, tax-appeal, and property-litigation matters all begin the same way: pulling assessments, ownership, violations, and tax distress out of scattered City systems. The record is public — assembling it is the cost. ALKARTIS connects it into one sourced, explainable read, so the hours go to the argument, not the assembly, in Philadelphia today.
Every property matter runs a version of the same intake: establish what a parcel is assessed at and whether that's defensible, establish who actually owns it and what their record looks like, and establish where it sits financially. Done by hand, that means an associate or paralegal touring the OPA assessment roll, L&I violations, licensing and eviction records, and tax-balance and lien filings — then formatting the result. ALKARTIS does the connecting once and keeps every figure sourced, so intake becomes review instead of research. Here's how the live tools map to the work.
A property-tax-appeal matter rests on a simple evidentiary spine — the current OPA assessment, comparable sales that show it's out of line, and a Board of Revision of Taxes packet that presents them. TaxAssessmentIQ pulls the live OPA record, assembles genuinely comparable sales, screens out the non-arm's-length transfers, tells you whether an appeal is worth filing, and generates a BRT-ready packet. For a contingency-fee practice, that turns the mechanical 80% of every case into a few minutes of review, so the marginal appeal becomes economical to take — and the associate's time goes to the cases where legal judgment actually decides the outcome.
The legal judgment is the valuable part. The record assembly in front of it is a tax on getting there — and it's the part that scales badly.
Ownership is deliberately fragmented — a single operator can sit behind a dozen LLCs. LandlordEye connects Philadelphia property, licensing, and violations records and resolves them to the owner behind them, so a portfolio scattered across shell entities reads as one. That's the pattern that matters in habitability and code-enforcement actions, in portfolio and pattern-of-neglect litigation, and in diligence on a counterparty — and because it's public-records research, every link traces back to a checkable source, not an inference you'd have to defend.
For foreclosure defense, workout, and creditor work, the question is how close a property — or a debtor's whole portfolio — is to the block. TaxSaleSignal places each parcel on the tax-distress funnel (current → delinquent → tax lien on file → sheriff's-sale exposure), rolls it up across an owner's holdings, and watches it over time. One honesty boundary worth stating in any memo: the exposure stage is an estimate from delinquency depth and lien status, not the Sheriff's official sale calendar — so it's a risk signal to act on, not a confirmed sale date.
Firms running these at volume often want the same engine feeding an intake workflow programmatically. That's possible, but it's not self-serve: API access, team seats, and single sign-on are part of the Enterprise tier. If you want a consistent, defensible intake across the practice rather than an ad-hoc portal tour per matter, talk to our team about an Enterprise engagement.
No. ALKARTIS is a public-records research tool. It assembles and explains the record — assessments, ownership, violations, tax distress — so your team can move faster; the legal judgment, strategy, and filing stay entirely with the firm. Every figure traces back to a checkable public source.
Philadelphia. TaxAssessmentIQ, LandlordEye, and TaxSaleSignal all run on live Philadelphia public records now. Additional cities come online over time and can be prioritized through an Enterprise engagement.
Team seats, single sign-on, and API access are part of the Enterprise tier, scoped to the firm. Individual attorneys can also start on a self-serve plan.
Every figure is tied to the public source it came from, and the tools are candid about the limits of what a record can prove — for example, TaxSaleSignal shows sheriff's-sale exposure as an estimate from delinquency depth and lien status, not a confirmed sale date. That sourcing is what makes the output checkable and citable.
See how TaxAssessmentIQ, LandlordEye, and TaxSaleSignal fit a firm's intake — or how a book of matters runs on API access. Our team can walk you through it.